Guest posting is an excellent way to find new readers for your own blog.  Put some of your best content on other peoples blogs. These guest posts can help you launch your blog and raise your own profile and gain subscribers. The key is to post on blogs with similar topics as your own so that you will attract the type of readers you want.

Here are some tips:

1.  Post Regularly

This is the way you build a relationship with the readers and reinforce your brand, expertise, and authority.

2.  Submit Content To Multiple Blogs

When you blog regularly on multiple blogs in a niche you reinforce your brand because many times these niche related blogs are frequented by the same readers.

3.  Sell Yourself

Include a link back to your blog and RSS feed as well as a brief description of who you are and what you do.

Another way to sell yourself is to share some personal experience on the topic at hand. This helps people to connect and relate to you.

4.  Continue To Develop Your Own Blog

If you have submitted good content to other peoples blogs you will get the attention of readers who will want to check out your blog. The content on your blog must be excellent so that it engages your readers and entices them to subscribe to your blog. A good idea is to plan the posts to your blog before starting a guest posting campaign. That way your own blog won’t suffer from lack of fresh ideas for new posts because you are posting on many other blogs in a niche. The ultimate goal is to sustain your posting for the long haul.

Blogging is fun. I am a blogger, so trust me, it’s fun! People blog for a variety of reasons; some do it to promote a product, some do it to promote themselves, some do it for the love of writing, some do it to make money. There are a million reasons to blog, all you got to do is find yours! I personally blog for two reasons; because I enjoy it, and because I want to promote myself as a writer. When I started blogging, I used some free platforms, but eventually moved on to buying my own host and server and began to use another platform. Here are three popular blogging platforms:

1. Blogger. Blogger is popular because Google made it popular. This free service is great for the aspiring blogger who wants to start building a fan base without risking anything. Blogger provides you with a subdomain (yourname.blogger.com) and a bunch of different templates to customize your blog. You can add a couple of ad revenue sources if you want to make money, but essentially, it’s for bloggers who are just starting.
2. MySpace. MySpace is great to blog on: it’s easy to network with a community and you can post a whole bunch of stuff on your page! Although MySpace is associated with artists, it is also great for the aspiring writer looking to network.
3. WordPress. WordPress is my weapon of choice. Whether you choose the free version, or download the source code and put it on your host, it is one of the most powerful and easiest to use blogging platforms available. This site is actually running off of WordPress and it’s not even a blog, put it that way! WordPress has a ton of plug ins available, and I personally recommend downloading the source code, putting it on your own host and buying a domain to use it to its maximum potential.

These are just three blogging platforms available, there are literally hundreds out there. So, look around, choose a platform, and start blogging!