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Guest posts
Writing and submitting guest posts, and running an editorial pipeline on a site you own.
How it works
The deal, and the four steps every guest post goes through.
Writing for another site
For authors: from picking a destination to a link that checks out.
- Submitting your first guest postChoosing where the article is going, accepting the site's rules, and the two ways to bring the article in.
- Importing from Google DocsThe one sharing setting that has to be right, what the import keeps, what it drops, and re-importing after a revision.
- Writing in the Rankbench editorThe editor, the panels beside it that show the site's rules as you write, autosave, links and images, and what happens when it locks.
- Review and sendThe last screen before the editors: your article with every link pulled out, what the domain figures are for, and what sending locks.
- When the editors ask for changesWhere the feedback appears, replying to it, the two ways to make the changes, and what each round leaves on the record.
- Tracking your guest postsThe My Guest Posts list, the statuses in journey order, deleting a draft safely, and what an article's own page holds.
Running a site that accepts posts
For owners: opening your site, reviewing well, and publishing.
- Opening your site to guest postsThe switch that has to be on, the submission link you hand out, pausing without closing, and why your site might not appear.
- Writing your guest post rulesStarting from a preset, the four groups of rules, and why naming what you never accept saves the most time.
- Reviewing a submissionThe review queue, reading a package, leaving comments tied to the text, the three decisions, and the rule the product enforces before you can send something back.
- Final review and the Approver roleAssigning somebody to give an approved article its last read, what an Approver can see and decide, and when the step is worth having at all.
- Publishing and the live checkPublishing an approved article on your own site, submitting its URL, what the check looks for, and what a failure usually means.
- The Content LibraryYour published guest posts, confirmed still live, and what having that record is actually worth.