Urgent Question on Alternatives of Guest Posting?

[Debashis]

Hi. Recently Matt Cutts said that Guest Posting will not be allowed from now on. So, what will be the powerfull Off Page SEO steps which are alternative of Guest Posting, keeping in mind the latest Hummingbird & all the updates?

***I dont want to do Guest Posting at any cost.

[Kalish]

sure guest posting is not worth any more if you use a anchor tag but you can leave a natural link that will help it. i don't think so that guest posting is out but yes you have to change the way you do it.

[Jake]

He did not say it was "Forbidden, jut that it has become yet another SEO spamming technique, degrading the quality of a typical guest posts. An in body link still remains more valuable than alternatives like blog comments.
Google may be bothered that this form of SEO spamming is more difficult to identify (when people don't stupidly send him paid post requests)

Just a reminder, Google considers any link "created for the purposes of search rank manipulation to be SEO spam"

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/guest-blogging/

He further says: "There are still many good reasons to do some guest blogging (exposure, branding, increased reach, community, etc.). Those reasons existed way before Google and they’ll continue into the future. And there are absolutely some fantastic, high-quality guest bloggers out there"

[Pearl Pitt]

I agree totally with Kailash. If you do an activity in a natural way then its not going to hurt. There are many big names who are engaged in guest blogging.

[Sourabh]

Forum posting is good,

[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.