HACKER Q&A
📣 KaoruAoiShiho

"Guest poster" trying to advertise on my site, what should I charge?


I run fiction.live, which is a pretty successful website but hemorrhaging money. I really need some income. Also looking for co-founders.

I get emails from 2-3 unknown people per week asking to "guest post" articles on my website. I have no idea how to respond to them. Any advice?

Sample email:

Good day! Are you looking for contributors to write for your website right now? If so, I’d love to send some good-quality content your way. Please, let me know if you are interested and what conditions I should meet for posting on your site?

- Which link can I add: Dofollow or Nofollow? How many links can be placed in an article? How much should I pay for an additional link?

- Will the post be tagged "sponsored"?

- How long can a publication be posted?

- What language should the article be written in?

- Now I'm looking for sites to post an article on a general topic. But I’ll ask in the future, can you offer link insertion or post articles on the topic of casino /gambling/crypto/loans? What is the price ?--

What should I say? If I allow perma follow links would that hurt my Google ratings?

  👤 mtmail Accepted Answer ✓
Our blog gets questionable guest post requests like that every other day. We're in the business of B2B enterprise geospatial data processing and somebody emails us about writing parenting guides, lifestyle, fitness, electronics. Clearly they don't even check the blog, it's just mass spamming of any website they can find. You can ignore those.
👤 gus_massa
>> If so, I’d love to send some good-quality content your way.

There is a high chance it will be low quality spam.

From a few cases I saw in YouTube, some scammers make a similar promise and they ask for admin privileges to check the statistics or something. Then they remove you from your blog! So, whatever you decide to do, don't give them admin privileges.