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Interesting article, because my feeling is that any guest post written for SEO purposes will naturally be of low quality. Compare that with guest posts written to leverage the distribution network of the publisher. Those are of higher quality because they're still meant to be read and shared.
I think it's important to be able to give a guest poster (and as a guest poster myself to have) autonomy, and that's based on a relationship of trust. What I typically do is read a guest poster's blog, read other guest posts they've made, and try to get a sense of why they want to guest post on my blog. If I divine that the purpose is to make use of my distribution network because we have shared interests in common, i'll go for it. If I think it's purely an SEO play, I'll kindly refuse.
I found this article to be very helpful. I think that the games that we play both as content marketers/publishers and those who host the blogs really are not beneficial to either of us. If we focus on the end consumer - the reader - I believe that it will make the internet a better place in general.