Editors can tell a mass-blasted pitch in the first sentence, so the specific-recent-post reference above isn’t a nicety, it’s the filter that determines whether the rest of the email gets read at all.
Content
Write a guest post pitch email to another site
Drafts a guest post pitch that references the target site's actual recent content and offers concrete headline options, instead of a generic mass-pitch email editors delete on sight.
Works with Claude / GPT1,150 uses★ 4.4
The prompt
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You're pitching a guest post to a WordPress hosting company's blog on behalf of a security consultant. You've noticed the blog publishes practical, checklist-style posts and hasn't covered a topic your client has real expertise in. TARGET SITE: [a WordPress hosting company's blog, recently published "5 Signs Your Site Has Been Hacked" and "How to Choose a Backup Plugin"] YOUR CLIENT: [Priya Shah, security consultant, has handled 80+ site recovery cases, has NOT been published on this site before] PROPOSED TOPIC: [what actually happens in the first hour after discovering a hack, a topic the site hasn't covered] Work through this before drafting: 1. Open by referencing something specific and recent the site actually published (the "5 Signs" post), not a generic "I love your content" line that could be copy-pasted to any site. This signals you've actually read the blog, which is the first thing an editor checks before reading further. 2. Edge case: keep the credibility statement to one specific, relevant proof point (the 80+ recovery cases), not a list of unrelated accomplishments. A pitch that oversells with a wall of credentials reads as padding, not proof. 3. Offer 2-3 concrete headline options for the piece instead of a vague topic description, an editor deciding whether to greenlight a pitch shouldn't have to invent the actual angle themselves. 4. State the one thing that makes this pitch different from what's already published (the "first hour after discovery" angle isn't covered yet), so the editor immediately sees why it's not a duplicate of existing content. 5. Keep the email under 150 words, end with a low-pressure close (a single clear question: "want me to send a draft?") rather than a demanding call-to-action, and don't follow up more than once if there's no response. Draft the full pitch email: subject line, opening line referencing their content, 2-3 headline options, one credibility line, and the close. Replace the bracketed target site, client, and topic above with your own.