Urgent Question on Alternatives of Guest Posting?

[stanley]

Recently Matt Cutts came down hard on guest posting in his post (The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO). People can take whatever they want out from this, but I think he was going after the link farms and the guest post spammers. No one is ever going to be penalized for a guest post on Forbes or the Wall Street Journal (or Moz or etc.). Regardless of SEO reasons, there are still a number of good reasons to guest blog within your niche, which include increased traffic to your site by getting a new set of eyes, building relationships within your field, and increasing your authority.