Alright fellas, it's brain dump time. Here me out.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but cold emailing creators for guest posts without reading a single word of their site is not a business strategy. It’s a cry for help.

As a full-time blogger in a B2B niche, my daily life already looks like this:

• content planning
• writing
• editing
• updating old posts
• client projects
• checking affiliate dashboards like a raccoon checking trash cans
• replying to actual business emails from partners, brands, and humans with names
• (currently) carefully analyzing clients' websites for a proper SEO makeover
  (I'm doing SEO consulting now — go take advantage of the beta era before the prices increase! 👀)

And yet… before I can do any of that… I have to delete 37 emails (not even counting the ones that do not survive my spam filters) that all say some version of:

Sir.​
You don’t know my name.
You don’t know my niche.
You didn’t read my guest post guidelines that literally say “NO generic guest posts” in bold, caps, and emotional distress.

What you’re really saying is:

No 💜
Get the f*ck outta my inbox 💜

Because here’s the thing people don’t get:
Publishing a random guest post is not “free content.”
It’s free labor… for me.

I have to:

• edit it
• fact-check it
• make it not embarrassing (posts from randoms always are)
• internally link it
• maintain it
• take responsibility for it existing on my site

All for what?
A post that actively harms my topical authority and makes Google side-eye me like: “Are you okay?”

Now — before someone yells “BUT NETWORKING” — let me be clear:
I’m very open to hearing from creators.

Just… real ones.

I love original success stories.
Creators who actually built something.
People with a digital footprint.
Humans who can say, “Here’s what worked, here’s what didn’t, here’s how I became my own boss and stopped letting capitalism emotionally abuse me.”

It might not be the most Scrooge McDuck thing about me, but those emails?
I read them. I reply. I cheer for them.

But tragically, I keep getting Johnny McSmart SEO Guy™ spamming the entire internet with black-hat link farm energy, a Gmail address from 2009, and a profile photo that looks like it came free with a prepaid phone 💀

And yes.
Every single time.
I still Google them.

Not because I’m hopeful — but because my creator spider senses want confirmation bias.

And they’re always flagged.
Everywhere.
*shocked Pikachu face*

Anyway.
If you’re a creator actually building something — I see you.
If you’re spamming bloggers with “Dear Sir” (I'm very much a woman 💀) emails — please log off, drink water, and reconsider your life choices.
Go create quality content, grow an audience from scratch, and build a real digital footprint like decent bloggers do every day.

End rant.
Back to deleting emails and pretending I didn’t just lose 20 minutes to this tangent right on my Winter Solstice Holiday -_- *facepalm*