You may think that this tip is pretty obvious but for most people it isn’t. It’s extremely easy to write an article that’s just not relevant to a site. I can’t tell you how often I get articles sent to me that have nothing to do with what I write about or is flat out irrelevant to the readers. If you’re going to take the time you write a guest post, you want to make sure that the article is going to resonate with the blogger’s audience.

The benefit of spending a little more time researching the most successful articles on different sites and brainstorming more ideas is that you’ll get a better response. Even I spend a couple hours brainstorming ideas for new posts once in a while and it’s well worth the effort to do so.