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Managing Guest Post Submissions Efficiently

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 09:38 AM PST

If you started applying the trick I mentioned on this post, I am sure you are already receiving more guest post submissions.

As your blog grows, however, you might start getting more submissions than you can handle. I receive 3-4 submissions per week, and I have seem blogs out there getting over 10 submissions weekly! The problem with this is that you might start messing things up.

For example, I used to accept some submissions and then I would forget to actually publish them. Sometimes I liked the guest post but would forget to reply to the author stating that and so on.

What I learned, therefore, is that you need a basic system to manage the guest post submissions. Here is the one I developed for this blog:

I fixed the frequency of guest posts that I would publish on the blog: 1 per week.
I fixed the day of the week when guest posts should be published: Wednesday.
I developed the habit of replying to submissions as soon as possible, either accepting or denying them.
If I accepted a guest post, I tell the blogger the exact date when I can publish it. If he agrees, I then immediately upload the post to WordPress and use the “Schedule” feature to automatically publish it on the right day.
As new submissions keep coming I just keep adding the accepted ones to the queue.

This system made it much easier to manage the submission. At one point I had over 10 posts queued, but adding new ones was easy.

You can still mess things up if you don’t keep up with the right dates, but it is certainly better than having no system at all.

That is what I use though, and I am sure there are other methods and tricks out there. Do you have any of them to share? How do you manage guest post submissions on your blog?

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