Google Webmaster Guidelines have always advised that site owners NOT pay for backlinks. That being said, if the blog posts are good quality, good length, and relevant to the overall topic of the blog, then you should be okay. Also the guest posts should not have a ton of links to the client's website.
One other thing to keep in mind is that links placed in Steemit content are automatically nofollow links.
I will correct you on the NoFollow aspect. Once you hit a certain amount of reputation, your links are DoFollow.
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Can you explain this a bit more? Where is the threshold?
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