Free guest posting sites: 22 sites, and which still take posts

This list of free guest posting sites covers 22 sites across technology, health and fitness, and business and finance, with what each one asks for from guest authors. We checked what each site's own pages say, so you can see where to pitch and what to send before you write a word.

Here is what we found. Eleven of the 22 take guest posts with no charge to the author stated on their pages. Three charge or sit behind a paid membership: SitePoint, Entrepreneur and AllBusiness. One, HuffPost, pays its contributors and takes pitches only. Five show no open route for guest posts: Netguru, Healthline, Bplans and Recruitee name none, and Inc. does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. For the last two, Freshdesk and Trail Runner, we could not find a current guest post page on the site itself.

Free guest posting sites list

Each entry gives the site's position in its own words where the page states one.

Technology guest post sites

• SitePoint: takes guest articles from Premium subscribers only. Its write-for-us page, dated 22 May 2026, says: "Submitting a guest article is an exclusive perk for SitePoint Premium subscribers." The topics are web development; the page lists JavaScript, Python, Rust and React among them.
• VentureBeat: accepts guest posts and wants finished articles: "please send articles that are fully written and not just abstracts, outlines or proposals." On links, its page says: "Please do not add links to your company or website in the body of your article unless they’re absolutely necessary. You can include a link in your bio at the end."
• Freshdesk: we could not find a guest post page on the Freshdesk site.
• Smashing Magazine: accepts guest posts from web designers and developers, and pays the author: "Your work will be rewarded with a honorarium and full credit." It wants an outline before the article: "We would like to see an outline initially, rather than a complete article."
• Creative Bloq: accepts pitches by email. Send your interests, examples of your work and one or a few ideas. Its page adds: "Note that due to the volume of emails we receive we are not able to reply to all pitches."
• Netguru: no public route for guest posts found on the Netguru site.
• HuffPost: takes pitches, not finished posts, and pays: "All published contributors are paid for their work." It also states: "HuffPost does not accept pitches from PR representatives or agents." The sections its pitch page names include national and politics, personal, culture and life.
• DZone: accepts articles on software development: "Article submissions must have a minimum of 800 words." It adds: "Articles partially or fully created using AI tools, such as ChatGPT, are not allowed."
• MarTech Series: accepts guest posts and asks for a short outline first, then a draft. Its guidelines say: "Guest posts at MarTech Series are curated to engage C-level executives."
• WPExplorer: accepts a limited number of guest posts, on WordPress topics only: "Please only pitch WordPress focused topics." On links: "WPExplorer does not use full author boxes and only allows for one link on the author’s name".

Health and fitness guest post sites

• Natural News: takes contributors by application through its blogs site.
• mindbodygreen: accepts guest posts from credentialed experts: "At mindbodygreen, we always welcome new highly credentialed experts and voices to our community." Send the full text of your post by email. On replies: "If your post has been accepted, we will respond within 14 days."
• Trail Runner: we found no pitch route on the Trail Runner site. A third-party listing dated 12 September 2024 says it takes pitches, not drafts, and pays: "Digital Pieces: Rates start at $200."
• Healthline: no public route for guest posts; the Healthline contact page names none.
• Well-Being Secrets: accepts guest posts. Its write-for-us page, signed by Helen Nichols, asks for a list of topics by email first and sets a long minimum: "Your article should be at least 5,000 words and structured in a user-friendly style."

Business and finance guest post sites

• Inc.com: closed to unsolicited articles: "Please note, Inc. does not accept unsolicited manuscripts." Would-be contributors are asked to email its editorial team.
• Success.com: accepts pitches through a pitch portal: "Send us your pitch and a sample of your work."
• Entrepreneur: accepts contributions through a paid membership: "As of November 1, 2022, the cost of a membership to the Entrepreneur Leadership Network is $3,000 per year." On links: "All contributed articles have nofollow links." We explain what nofollow means, and how it differs from a followed link, in a separate guide.
• AllBusiness.com: accepts posts of 1,000 words or more, with a fee on acceptance; its guest post overview states: "If we accept the post, there will be a $1,000 administrative fee payable to AllBusiness.com." On links: "We do not allow promotional links or affiliate links in our posts."
• Money Saving Mom: accepts practical money-saving posts: "Please limit your post to 1000 words or less." On timing: "If your guest post is accepted, it usually takes between two to four months for your guest post to be published." A link to your site is allowed in a short bio.
• Bplans: no public route found. The Bplans author pages now read: "Bplans has joined LivePlan. Find all the content and tools you love, now in one place."
• Recruitee.com: no public route found; Recruitee makes hiring software, and we found no contributor page on its blog.

Contributor pages change, so open the site's own page before you write anything. Where a page names no charge, that is all we can say: we have not submitted to these sites ourselves.

Why guest posting is worth the time

A guest post puts your name and a link in front of a readership you do not have yet. The link is one you earn with an article instead of a payment, and the benefits of guest blogging go past the link itself. There is the byline under your name, the readers who find you through it, and the relationship with the editor who ran the piece, which can lead to a second post.

Free placements cost time. You pay with a pitch, a draft written to the host's rules, and a wait in the host's own queue, and the queue is often the longest part. That time is the real price of a free placement, so budget for it the way you would budget money.

How to choose the right guest posting sites

Three checks tell you most of what you need to know about a site: its authority scores, its audience, and what its contributor page asks for. The same three checks work for any site you find beyond this list.

Domain Authority (DA) and Page Authority (PA)

Moz publishes two of these scores. On Domain Authority, its own definition reads: "Domain Authority® (DA) is a search engine ranking score developed by Moz. It predicts how likely a website is to rank on search engine results pages (SERPs) compared to competitors." And on Page Authority: "Page Authority (PA) is a score developed by Moz that predicts how well a specific web page will rank on search engine result pages (SERP)."

Ahrefs has its own pair, Domain Rating and Ahrefs Rank. Its help page says: "Ahrefs Rank (AR) ranks all the websites in our database in order, by the size and quality of their dofollow referring domains". In other words, Ahrefs Rank orders sites by their DR, so Domain Rating and Ahrefs Rank are one measure shown two ways, not two separate checks.

Use these scores to compare sites, not to predict what any one post will do. A score tells you about the site's link profile; it does not tell you whether the editor will say yes, or whether the readers will care. We keep a full guide to Moz DA, and a free DA and DR checker that shows both scores for any site. On our own Guest Posts we measure each site with Moz Domain Authority and cross-check it against Ahrefs Domain Rating and live traffic. DA sets the tier and price; DR and live traffic tell us whether the number is earned.

Audience relevance

Authority scores do not tell you who reads a site, so read it. Open the last ten articles and ask a plain question: would your customer read these? Then check whether the site covers your subject at all. WPExplorer takes only WordPress topics, and DZone takes only software development, so a post outside those subjects has nowhere to go on either site, whatever the scores say. If the site has comments under its posts, read a few; they show who the readers are and what they ask about.

What the contributor page tells you

The contributor page itself is the clearest signal of what a site wants. It tells you whether to send an outline or a full article, how long the piece should be, and whether a link is allowed and where it may sit. Read it before you pitch, and again before you write. Our guide to finding guest post opportunities shows how to build a list of pages like these in the first place.

Steps to successfully submit a guest post

Research and identify potential sites

The list above is the shortlist; these four steps turn it into a set of pitches.

1. Pick the niche group above that matches your subject, and start with the sites in it; they are the ones where your topic already fits.
2. Open each site's own contributor page and read it in full, because the pages differ more than you would expect from site to site.
3. Note what each page asks for: an outline or a full article, the length it wants, and its rule on links.
4. Check the site's recent posts to confirm it still publishes your topic, and that your idea adds something the site has not just covered.

Crafting your pitch

Rachel Andrew, then Editor in Chief of Smashing Magazine, wrote on 19 August 2019 in her article on pitching publications: "At Smashing Magazine, we have a link to the guide to writing for us right there on the contact form. I’d estimate that only 20% of people read and follow those instructions."

That is her estimate for one publication, not a measured figure for guest posting as a whole. It still points to the cheapest advantage on offer: do what the page asks.

Smashing's own page asks for an outline: "Your proposed outline. This will be 200-300 words with the main headings and detail of what you will cover in each section." Writing in the Smashing newsletter of 10 November 2020, she explained why she asks for outlines: "One of the reasons why I ask people to pitch with an outline is that it levels the playing field."

A pitch built on that advice stays short. Five parts are enough:

• A subject line that names the article.
• One sentence on who you are and why you can write it.
• The working headline.
• The outline, with the main headings and a line on what each section covers.
• Two or three links to published work.

Keep the whole pitch short enough to read in a minute. The outline does the heavy lifting, because it shows the editor what the finished article will look like before either of you has written a word.

Writing the article

Write to the host's length and audience, not to your own habits. The list above shows how far lengths differ: DZone asks for 800 words or more, Money Saving Mom asks for 1,000 words or fewer, and Well-Being Secrets asks for at least 5,000. Put your link where the host allows it, and nowhere else. Cite your sources so the editor can check every claim without emailing you back.

Tools to help your guest posting

You do not need a long list of tools for guest posting. Four cover the work, and you probably have two of them already.

• The site's own contributor page. It is the source for every rule on this list.
• A spreadsheet with one row per site: page address, what it asks for, date pitched, reply. Once you pitch more than a few sites, the spreadsheet is what stops you pitching the same editor twice.
• A backlink tool, to see where sites like yours have published.
• Our free DA and DR checker, for a quick read on a site's authority scores before you spend an evening on a pitch.

After your guest post is published

Sharing on social media

Share the post on your own channels as soon as it is live, and tag the publication where it has an account. The same habits that help with social media link building apply here: steady sharing over a few weeks does more than one announcement on publication day.

Linking back to your own content

Follow the host's link rule, because the hosts on this list differ. VentureBeat keeps company links to the bio, WPExplorer allows one link on the author's name, and AllBusiness allows no promotional links in the post. If the host allows a bio link, point it at a page that matches the article's subject, so the readers who click through find more of what they just read. Where the host has comments, reply to them; an answered question under your post is part of what you published.

Free guest posts or paid placements?

A free guest post costs your time: the pitch, the draft written to the host's rules, and the wait in the host's queue, which runs to two to four months at Money Saving Mom by its own page. A paid placement costs money and saves that time. Neither is the better kind of link; they suit different amounts of time and budget. The free route suits a writer with time to spend; the paid route suits a team with a budget and pages that need links sooner.

On our Guest Posts you supply the target URL, the anchor text and the DA tier, and we write an article of 750 words or more and place it. After publication we check that the page is live, the link is in the body copy, the anchor and target URL match the order and the page is indexable. Only then is the URL reported to the dashboard. That check is part of our quality assurance process, and each delivered link carries 12-month replacement cover.

If you are comparing providers, we keep a page on guest posting services, and another on the choice between guest posts vs niche edits.

Frequently asked questions

Is guest posting free or paid?

Both free and paid guest posting exist. Eleven of the 22 sites on this list name no charge to the author, while Entrepreneur's membership is $3,000 a year and AllBusiness charges $1,000 on acceptance. Our own Guest Posts run from $75 per post on DA10+ sites to $400 on DA60+ sites.

What are the benefits of guest posting?

A guest post puts your name and your writing in front of a readership you do not have yet, and it earns a link back to your site. It also builds your name in your field and brings readers who would not have found you otherwise. The readers, the byline and the link all keep working after publication day.

How do I choose the right guest posting sites?

Start with relevance: read the site's recent articles and ask whether your customer would read them. Then check the authority scores, such as Moz DA and Ahrefs DR, and read the contributor page so you know what the site asks for before you pitch. A site that scores well and matches your audience is worth a careful pitch.

What should I include in my pitch for a guest post?

Keep it short: a subject line that names the article, one sentence on who you are and why you can write it, the working headline, a brief outline, and two or three links to published work. Then follow whatever the site's own contributor page asks for, because that page overrules any template. Editors decide quickly, so put the headline and outline near the top.

Which free guest posting sites pay the author?

Two sites on this list say on their own pages that they pay the author. Smashing Magazine pays an honorarium for accepted articles, and HuffPost pays its published contributors, though HuffPost takes pitches only.

What tools can help with guest blogging?

A spreadsheet with one row per site covers most of the job: page address, what the site asks for, date pitched and reply. A backlink tool shows where similar sites have published, and our free DA and DR checker gives a quick read on a site's authority scores.