Have you got some low quality guest posts for your blog? Hopefully you understand that quality content less often is better than frequent content that is not always very good.<\/p>\n
Last week, I described some aspects of low quality blog posts<\/a> so they are easier to spot even if you have little confidence in judging people\u2019s writing abilities.<\/p>\n But what if you have accepted some poor guest blog posts or have a regular guest blogger who is providing low quality posts for you to use?<\/p>\n Your options as the blog host<\/strong><\/p>\n The most important thing to remember is that it is your blog so only you can set the standard and make the rules.<\/p>\n How have you dealt with low quality guest posts you have received? What reactions did you receive?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n * I\u2019ll cover editing others\u2019 posts and setting up your policies over the next few weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you got some low quality guest posts for your blog? Hopefully you understand that quality content less often is better than frequent content that is not always very good. Last week, I described some aspects of low quality blog posts so they are easier to spot even if you have little confidence in judging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1425],"tags":[1483,1471,1472],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-content","category-business-communications","tag-dealing","tag-guest-post","tag-low-quality"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3777,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions\/3777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nIf there is nothing good about the post, you don\u2019t have much choice but to reject it. That could mean sending it back to the author with a \u2018no thanks\u2019 message or just deleting it from your blog or emails. It\u2019s up to you if you give reasons or reject them from future consideration \u2013 having clear policies* can help you make and enforce such decisions.<\/li>\n
\nIf the post has potential (for example, it has some great ideas but is poorly written or doesn\u2019t explain ideas very well) it may be worth asking the author to change the post and resubmit it. If you request this, you will get better results if you make your expectations very clear.<\/li>\n
\nAgain, if the post has potential you could make some changes to the post yourself. This is simpler than asking for an amendment in that your standards will be met but there are other complications* \u2013 remember the guest blogger\u2019s name is on the post. I believe this is perfectly acceptable if you are just correcting a typo or two but needs care for larger changes.<\/li>\n
\nYou obviously have this choice but it can damage your blog\u2019s reputation<\/a> so why risk it? If you feel you have to post it because of an agreement, make sure it is clear in your blog that it is a guest post (not the host owner or regular contributor) and adjust that agreement as soon as possible. If you have an ongoing or desirable relationship with the blogger this may seem tempting but it isn\u2019t really doing him or her many favours either. Better for you both to let them know their posts are not at a suitable standard so they can learn from their mistakes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n