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I got this email this morning from someone I've never heard of. More content would be good. But I'm leary of the idea because a) I don't want to give up editorial control and b) I wonder if this could be some sort of scam.

Read this and let me know what you would do:

Hi,

Do you need “Guest Bloggers” for your blog? I represent a large community of writers who are trying to get their unique family friendly content published on sites such as yours. My writers are just looking for exposure so there is no charge to you for the content.

The writers I represent are professionals and are not churning out garbage content that reads like a sales ads. Each piece takes time to create and is usually 700 words or more in length. We hope to establish a long term relationship with you. You can also feel free to monetize the articles with banners ads or Google Adsense etc.

PS. I am sure you will want to see some writing samples so just let me know and I can show you several.

Thanks to all who took the time to read.

Thanks Sustainable PF. 

Sustainable PF said:

I got the same email about 6 weeks back.  After inquiring as to whether they were looking for sponsorship posts or guest posts he never wrote back.  My guess is he wants a business link included and knew he wasn't getting it for free from our site.

Sustainable PF said:

I got the same email about 6 weeks back.  After inquiring as to whether they were looking for sponsorship posts or guest posts he never wrote back.  My guess is he wants a business link included and knew he wasn't getting it for free from our site.

I received the same email and came to the same conclusion!

I have seen a few of these in my time as well.  The person makes it sound like they are writing to do you a favor (Look i'll give you a high quality post written by a good writer) when they are simply looking for a backlink.

It is never a good sign if the same email is getting sent to multiple blogs. They are definitely offering content in exchange for links. It is completely up to you, but I wouldn't imagine the quality would be that high and it wouldn't be something I would accept.

If you do decide to go for it you should find out what the links would be and what the quality of writing is. Also don't be worried about rejecting it if it doesn't meet your standards

Jeff @ Sustainable Life Blog said:

I have seen a few of these in my time as well.  The person makes it sound like they are writing to do you a favor (Look i'll give you a high quality post written by a good writer) when they are simply looking for a backlink.

The 'doing you a favor' part is the key phrase here.  They always present it in such a way that you should be falling all over yourself to respond back with a big yes, when all that does is give free links that they should really be paying for.  Before Yakezie, I think I fell for this once, but not so much anymore.

Usually, I'll write back asking if they'd like my rates for a business link guest post.  Most of the time the ones that act like they're doing you a favor don't even respond back.  I've thought about just deleting them but figure if I do, I'll end up missing the one that would actually pay :)

It's for business. If you want further help, shoot me an email!

I get these a lot.

I usually reply with I'm not accepting guest posts at this time, but if you want you can sponsor a post.

That usually scares them off, but many times they come back with " how much?" and then end up paying for a sponsored post.