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I received an e-mail from someone asking to do a guest post. I had never heard of him, and he never commented on my site. In my excitement to get a guest post I may have made a mistake. He seems to fit with all of my criteria and sent me the article. I like it, but now I'm wondering if it was a spammer who happened to write a good article. I've been working really hard to create great content and his post was good. But I'm afraid I may have made a mistake by telling him that I would post his article on Wed. What should I do? Should I go ahead and post it? Or should I e-mail and regretfully tell him I will not be able to post his article?

What should I do?

Thanks Andrea, you put it so eloquently. He did link to a commercial website, which is what threw up the red flag. From this point on I'll only entertain guest posts from people I know.

In the beginning I accepted guest posts from almost everybody with only a few exceptions.  I was just happy to have free content and update my blog.  Now I'm much more pickier. 

It's your blog.  If you decide you don't want to post it, that's fine.  Just apologize and say you misunderstood their intent. 

And don't worry…keep blogging and you'll get these request all the time. 

The Frugal Path said:

I received an e-mail from someone asking to do a guest post. I had never heard of him, and he never commented on my site. In my excitement to get a guest post I may have made a mistake. He seems to fit with all of my criteria and sent me the article. I like it, but now I'm wondering if it was a spammer who happened to write a good article. I've been working really hard to create great content and his post was good. But I'm afraid I may have made a mistake by telling him that I would post his article on Wed. What should I do? Should I go ahead and post it? Or should I e-mail and regretfully tell him I will not be able to post his article?

What should I do?

If you never heard of him before or communicated with him.. tell him you don't want to run the post. No hard feelings… it's your blog

I get those all the time and generally delete them.  If you already opened a dialogue why not see if they will pay for the pleasure of running the article anyways?

I would also completely agree with Andrea. That is our policy to a "T". I've also run into the same situation that you have. I simply said that there was a misunderstanding, gave them our ad pricing info, and asked if they would like to continue with the post. There were no hard feelings on either side.

On the bright side, congrats that you are starting to get spammed! That means you've been in it for a while