Over the past several years, we have received many requests from people looking to guest post on MakeUseOf, and frankly we don’t blame them one little bit. MakeUseOf is one of the best and most popular tech blogs on the internet! Who wouldn’t want to write for us? However, we have always turned down guest post requests, simply because we have always had more than enough submissions from our permanent staff.

However, we have now decided that perhaps we are going about things the wrong way here. Perhaps MakeUseOf would benefit from the wisdom of people who are too busy and too committed to work for us full time and long term. People who would perhaps appreciate the ability to get the occasional article in?

Therefore, starting from today, we are going to start looking at guest post submissions – and we will pay for them too if accepted. And link to your website. Seriously, what is there not to like?

However, we do have to impose a few rules. Therefore we have made a webpage which details what you need to do – and not do – in order for us to seriously look at your guest post submissions. Head on over to the MakeUseOf Guest Posting page to see what we are looking for – and not looking for. Then send us your submissions and if we like what we see, we’ll be in touch.

As well as accepting guest posts for the first time, we also have a few other things up our sleeve for 2011 which will make MakeUseOf even better. To make sure you don’t miss out, make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed or email updates.