What is Guest Blogging?

Ok, so as some of you may know I'm preetty new to the blogging world, and one day it was suggested to me that I write a guest post to increase my traffic, and obvs I said what? what is guest blogging? so heres a little resume of what it all is and hopefully it helps some of you.

Guest blogging is a method used by bloggers to increase blog traffic where bloggers write posts to be published on other bloggers' blogs. Guest blogging can work in one of two ways:

• You write a post to appear on another person's blog.
• Another person writes a post to appear on your blog.

Guest blogging is used by bloggers as a way to network with other people within the blogosphere, grow relationships with other blog readers, and increase traffic for their own blogs. There are two primary types of guest blogging:

• Guest blogging on your own blog: When someone writes a post for you to publish on your own blog. That blogger will typically contact you and ask to provide a guest post to you, or you can contact a blogger you like and request a guest post.
• Guest blogging on someone else's blog: When you write a guest post to be published on another blogger's blog. Typically, you contact a blogger whose blog you enjoy and ask if you can provide a guest post contribution.

Whichever way you participate in guest posting is effective in terms of growing the audience for your blog.