In my haste to get the post settled and handed up on time I neglect to find out in detail the exact details as in when the post would go live and how my bio would be shown in the post.
I did e-mail the blog's administrator and asked her when she will be posting my post but she never did get back to me. A few month's later after I revisited her site looking for the guest posts I was surprised to see that the post went live a few days after I submitted it to her but there was no indication or byline to state that I was the guest blogger and a link back to my site.
Initially I was rather annoyed as it seems like she was "ripping me off" as she seems to be posting the article that I wrote as hers and no indication that it is a guest post besides being filed under the category guest post.
If it was a sponsored guest post then having a byline wouldn't be an issue as she would have then paid to use it but the fact that it wasn't.
It's not the first time that I have guest post for other sites and on all occasions prior to this I had my bio and a link back to my site stated on the article.
I sincerely hope that it was an oversight on the site's owner's part and not a deliberate attempt to not give me my due credit.
Looking back at this episode. I learned that I should have done the following
- Clarify with her exactly when the post will go live and how it would be published together with credits for me before actually submitting the post to her.
- Find out about if it is necessary for me to answer the commenter's who post comments to that article. ( I did answer some of the questions asked in the comments section.
- Drop direct links to my site within the article and not just rely on putting the link to my site in the author's bio box.
- Write a post on my site to go live on the same day that the guest post is published to state that I'm over at that site with my post today and link to it..
Well... now I know better.
