Guest-Post, Cross-Post – Is There a Difference?
Recently I launched a shiny new health and fitness blog for mommies called “Lazy Mama Fitness” (please check it out if you haven’t already). One of the features I want for my new blog is to feature one health/fitness post from another blogger every week – it could be either an original post or an existing post from the guest poster’s blog. I really don’t care which, as the post would presumably be new to my readers and a way to drive more traffic to some of my bloggy friends’ sites. Guest posting is one of the best ways to drive new traffic to your site.
Unfortuantely my first attempt at this guest posting thing didn’t quite go so well. I approached a blogger who writes a great diet humour blog to be my first guest poster. She said I could link to whatever I like. So I visited her blog, found a cute joke and posted it along with a link back to her site, fully crediting her blog for it. Unfortunately I misunderstood what was meant by “link to whatever you like” – we didn’t negotiate all of the terms and conditions of this transaction. She had meant that I could post an excerpt – ie:
I found a great post over at…. Here’s some of it:… now go and check out the full post.
Which is fine, but not the way I want to handle guest posts on my new site. When she asked me to change it, I just deleted the post, because I like I said it’s not how I want to handle guest posts. I agree she can have her own terms (it is her content afterall) but I have my own vision for my blog, so I deleted the post.
This whole situation has gotten me thinking – what’s the difference between a Cross-Post and a Guest Post? My bloggy friend felt that a guest post is original content specifically written for the blog you will be a guest poster at, while using “old” content is cross-posting and is best handled by only publishing an excerpt. I on the other hand think that a guest post is a post (either new or old) on a blog that you do not run, and a cross-post is a post (either new or old) on another blog you run. That said, she and I are both in agreement that you can’t post other people’s content without permission, which I did seek first.
Semantics – I’m seriously confuzzled. Which side of the fence do you fall on? What does a guest post mean to you? What does a cross-post mean to you? Does it matter if the content is old or new? Sigh – this blogging thing, while I’ve been doing it for five years I still find that I have a million things yet to learn.
PS – Does anyone want to help break in my new blog and post any of their new or exisiting content on Lazy Mama Fitness? I’ll give you full credit and include you on my sidebar list of Authors. You will also get your own Author page with a description of your site and list of guest posts that you have contributed to my site. Email me at: janice@lazymama.com if you would like to contribute.
For more great posts, please visit: http://www.momontherun.net
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Guest-Post, Cross-Post – Is There a Difference?
Recently I launched a shiny new health and fitness blog for mommies called “Lazy Mama Fitness” (please check it out if you haven’t already). One of the features I want for my new blog is to feature one health/fitness post from another blogger every week – it could be either an original post or an existing post from the guest poster’s blog. I really don’t care which, as the post would presumably be new to my readers and a way to drive more traffic to some of my bloggy friends’ sites. Guest posting is one of the best ways to drive new traffic to your site.
Unfortuantely my first attempt at this guest posting thing didn’t quite go so well. I approached a blogger who writes a great diet humour blog to be my first guest poster. She said I could link to whatever I like. So I visited her blog, found a cute joke and posted it along with a link back to her site, fully crediting her blog for it. Unfortunately I misunderstood what was meant by “link to whatever you like” – we didn’t negotiate all of the terms and conditions of this transaction. She had meant that I could post an excerpt – ie:
I found a great post over at…. Here’s some of it:… now go and check out the full post.
Which is fine, but not the way I want to handle guest posts on my new site. When she asked me to change it, I just deleted the post, because I like I said it’s not how I want to handle guest posts. I agree she can have her own terms (it is her content afterall) but I have my own vision for my blog, so I deleted the post.
This whole situation has gotten me thinking – what’s the difference between a Cross-Post and a Guest Post? My bloggy friend felt that a guest post is original content specifically written for the blog you will be a guest poster at, while using “old” content is cross-posting and is best handled by only publishing an excerpt. I on the other hand think that a guest post is a post (either new or old) on a blog that you do not run, and a cross-post is a post (either new or old) on another blog you run. That said, she and I are both in agreement that you can’t post other people’s content without permission, which I did seek first.
Semantics – I’m seriously confuzzled. Which side of the fence do you fall on? What does a guest post mean to you? What does a cross-post mean to you? Does it matter if the content is old or new? Sigh – this blogging thing, while I’ve been doing it for five years I still find that I have a million things yet to learn.
PS – Does anyone want to help break in my new blog and post any of their new or exisiting content on Lazy Mama Fitness? I’ll give you full credit and include you on my sidebar list of Authors. You will also get your own Author page with a description of your site and list of guest posts that you have contributed to my site. Email me at: janice@lazymama.com if you would like to contribute.
For more great posts, please visit: http://www.momontherun.net
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