Guest Blogging: Is it good to post in top alexa ranked websites even if not in my niche?

This is a bit tricky question, sure getting links from high traffic website might work well, even those are irrelevant, however don't expect much traffic from irrelevant links.

Erm you might want to make sure that you are posting content on a website that is relevant to the market that you are in. This ensure that you will be getting quality traffic to your website. For me personally, I feel no point in getting huge number of visitors if they are not relevant.

This makes no sense at all, Ankit. You're saying you don't want traffic, but you do want to rank highly on Google, and you're even planning your marketing around ranking highly on Google, but the only benefit from ranking highly on Google is gradually, eventually, to collect some search engine traffic, which is about the worst quality traffic you could ever hope to attract.

You're discussing guest blogging here, and the main value and purpose of guest blogging is that it's a way of getting much better traffic than that (and much more quickly). But you're saying that's not what you want to do - you want something much less beneficial and much slower. So it isn't easy to reply to your questions. I don't mean it rudely but it seems to me that they're questions arising largely from mistaken beliefs. Apologies for sounding unhelpful, but I think a substantial reappraisal of your overall marketing strategy would be far more helpful to you.

I don't think they will anyway, but that wouldn't be my reason for not doing that. My reason would be that you'll hardly sell anything that way, because you won't have nearly as much chance to establish credibility, respect and trust as a "recommender" of products. You also won't be able to build your list, which is where most of the long-term money comes from.

Personally, I'd advise you not to put time and effort into trying to attract "organic SERP's" traffic, for two main reasons: first, it's very precarious and makes your business Google-dependent, and any business that's Google-dependent is no more than one algorithm-change away from a potential accident (or even a potential disaster), as so many Warriors have been finding out over the last year or two, some of them to their very great cost; secondly, for me, search engine traffic has been uniformly the worst-converting traffic out of everything I've ever tried in 8 entirely different niches over the whole of the last 4 years - search engine visitors to all my websites typically stay the least time, view the fewest pages, opt in the least often and actually buy anything by far the least often. I admit I do get tons of search engine traffic to all my main sites (because high rankings for multiple keywords happen to be a minor side-benefit of the main targeted traffic-generation method I use to build my business) but I'd certainly hate to have to make a living just from that traffic.

I agree with all the people above who are telling you to stick to your niche, but I think you're asking the wrong questions and that "not wanting traffic" and "just wanting backlinks" is a bad approach. But, even so, backlinks from relevant sites are undeniably worth much more, anyway.

Personally i think - if you can make the content "fit" it is just fine. for example: someone posted on my digital scrapbooking blog an article about wallpapers - it was relevant because she wrote about using graphics from my store. fact is that you can most likely make things fit somehow

I once had two pages on Wikipedia. The traffic from it were majorly information seekers and not money spenders But I get your point. My question is why guest blogging gives good traffic while I have hundreds of articles on all major article websites but no traffic shows in google analytics? Guest blogging is a "branded" version of "cheap chinese" article marketing. So, why article marketing fails? I choose relevant category while submitting articles.

For me, guest blogging on a relevant site that has a lot of raving fans has been an extremely effective method of getting immediate traffic and customers. In one case, my guest blog post produced three immediate signups to a seminar at $500 each.

I don't believe guest posting on an unrelated site would be worth the effort.

Marcia Yudkin

Alexa rankings and backlink power have nothing to do with one another, Alexa rankings are simply an indication of the amount of traffic a site receives. That being said, a PR N/A (or grey) site might have a <50k ranking, but a PR1 site with a >100k ranking will be stronger in terms of "link juice"

Now, when it comes to relevancy, you ALWAYS need to link from RELEVANT sites if you're doing it for SEO purposes, period.