Crowdsource your content ideas! How cool is that? Yes, this is what MyBlogU all about. MyBlogU is the innovative community of writers and bloggers who are eager to exchange their case studies, digital assets, expertise and knowledge to help each and get help in return!
Ann Smarty should be able to leverage the massive following she has to make MyBlogU a huge success. It may take some time, but already it’s proving to be a great resource for content creators and those willing to share their expertise.
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What MyBlogU offers?
- Crowd-source your EPIC content idea
- Get cited: Build your personal brand!
- Promote your digital assets
We have many SEO communities which offers high value to marketers. Communities like Inbound.org and GrowthHackers.com allow marketers to share, discuss and promote their content. So the question is what is the difference between MyBlogU and these communities?
MyBlogU is:
- Not a place where we submit links!
- Not a place for spamming.
- Help authors to write quality/authoritative content.
- Get more ideas from other authors/marketers
- Buildup data for the content
- Build good rapport with other authors
and much more!
So who is behind this awesome idea? It's none other than Ann Smarty, Co-founder of VCB + Brand manager@NinjasMarketing.
Announcing @MyBlogU: Brainstorm & Create EPIC Content #MyBlogU http://t.co/ECVawctEcp
— Ann Smarty (@seosmarty) July 3, 2014
When I heard about this medium, I was very excited to test this out and once I did that I was very satisfied and really amazed by the concept. I then thought to share my experience and guide other marketers to try this platform.
Features:
In this blog, I have explained the major features and step by step process to use this platform. So let’s get into it. It's simple and easy, you can register via Twitter, Facebook or by filling a simple form. Confirm your email address and once you did that login to the dashboard
***Updating your profile after you've logged into the system with your Facebook, Twitter and G+ profile ids and is mandatory.
Add Your Sites
You can add your site and or the sites in which you are contributing. Once added, you can select whether this has to be shown publicly or private.
If you are owner of the blog, uncheck the option “I am not the owner, just a contributor” then verify your site by following shown methods. The easy way is email verification, where you need to send mail to name@yourdomain.com.
MyBlogU - Primary Classifications
- Brainstorm
- Interviews
- Media
Brainstorming is the section where you can add your own projects to ask the community for help. You can ask for ideas or resources for your topic. This is an excellent place where you can project idea and request for more ideas from fellow community members.
This is the place where you can meet new people, their assets, idea and their their experience.
Interviews
This is really cool section that has become my personal favourite. At TechWyse, I do interviews with well known marketers and I think this section is going to add more value for self branding and also for finding new prospects. I see many opportunities in this section, taking part in others interview and getting mention/link in others blog will definitely increase personal authority in industry.
The Twitter sign-in, in the title of the topic indicates that “This interview will have public Twitter chat and all the contributors will be invited! Great way to get additional exposure and new followers!”
You can even do a group interview which is a great way to create unique content all while getting experts opinions. So start building your authorty in your industry and start building relationships.
Media
This section contains visual assets created by community members. You can find infographics, cheat sheets and other graphics and you can offer your blog to publish these visual assets. Also there is an option to upload your own visual assets and you can get referenced when the asset is published.
Categories
To sort the request in each of the three main sections, MyBlogU has categories depending upon the major industries. This easily allows users to find specific requests under different industries.
Request Area
This section allows you to sort request and post new requests. The options are “All Request,” “My Ideas,”“My Request,” “Archive” and “Submit New Project - Free!” I hope they will make it paid soon :)
The 
and 
are help and search option.
Writing a blog? Ask the community!
- Click on the “Submit New project - Free” button in header section.
- Fill the form with the needed details and add your request in “Request text” area.
- Once you click “submit” the request will appear in the dashboard.
Are you an expert?, contribute your ideas
- Select the request for which you want to sent your idea or participate.
- Click “send your idea!” button.
- Add your idea in the editor and send it to the author.
- After that you can see update in that request which you can see in your dashboard.
- Clicking on the highlighted section will show you the idea which you have sent.
- Once the author notices your idea, the author can directly PM you.
How MyBlogU is different from MyBlogGuest?
Will Matt Cutts Penalize MyBlogU like he did with MyBlogGuest ?
The question here is will Matt Cutts penalize a community where people exchange their ideas? The answers is: no. If that is the case then there are various communities which should have been penalized by now.
MyBlogU is a community where marketers share their ideas, thoughts, build relationships and moreover help each other to grow.
"An entity cannot just penalize group of people sharing ideas!"
SEO community reactions
Become THE source and get cited! It's not a typo, it's: http://t.co/CsKPYnIUz7 #blogging via @MyBlogU
— Steve Toth (@strategyinventr) July 4, 2014
I could see this working well. A new service by @annsmarty to help bloggers: http://t.co/bhlVGK66cP
— Marie Haynes (@Marie_Haynes) July 3, 2014
There are already some really thought-provoking requests up at #myblogu #myblogguest
— Gail Gardner (@GrowMap) July 10, 2014
Interesting new platform by @seosmarty for #bloggers #writers #ContentMarketing Check out this video to learn more https://t.co/SKFUd0wnTj
— Ali Lawrence (@Ali_MarCom) July 10, 2014
Wishing all the very best to Ann Smarty and to the team behind MyBlogU.
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Nice post. Thanks for sharing.
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I found your website very information and have large number of artical on it. I am also from the same area & i have been some blogging about digital marketing on page & off page seo
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What a detailed review of MyBlogU,
I am already using HARO for content marketing ideas and to generate best quality content for my blog post but after reading this review, i have just signed up for MyBlogU and reviewing different features.
Thank you !
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This service looks really cool – but I would love to see more reassurance from the MyBlogU team that there is absolutely no way anyone connected with the service or the service itself could be penalized. On the outset, I agree that you can’t get penalized for sharing ideas. But what if the service changes in some way.
What does it mean to check the box that you reserve the right to nofollow links? Do you have to check or uncheck it in order to proceed or is it your own preference?
Would love to hear more about the above!
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I like the article on all of this but is there a price for the platform? I will have to book mark this for sure and come back to it. I have another place I use as well for writing content and getting ranked that would go along great with this information. I use http://www.affordablesearchengineplacement.com quite a bit and have multiple pages of mine on multiple websites ranking on searchengines with the information and hardly pay anything for it. Actually it was FREE when I first started using it.
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Thanks a lot for this review! It made my week! 🙂