What Is This????

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

For those that know the answer and are not speculating...

Check out this website:

earthshareofohio.org

I see them all of the time. Just a series of unrelated articles slapped on a website for obvious linking opportunities.

Are they safe? Or is Google going after these types of things.

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[YouGotMyMoney]

It's part of a blog network, basically it's like an article directory only a LOT more effective. If you look at the big sites for most competitive insurance terms, they all use blog network posts.

Looks like the worst that can happen is Google will devalue the links-if they deindex a blog network, you could try these on a domain that you really dont care about. And then see how effective they can be.

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

I asked the same question on the WF and yea, it looks like that's what it is. I assume that if a website achieved high rankings by using these, and the blog network gets hammered (I think you mentioned a lot of them are), then you would think the site will take a hit.

 

[Pangaea]

um.... why are you outing bro? and to your question: Yes. Google will slap it network wide. Which is why you don't out people... >:-|

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

"why are you outing bro"

What does that mean?

 

[Josh]

"why are you outing bro"

What does that mean?

He's saying it's not cool to draw attention to these and get everyone slapped by google.

To the topic of getting slapped by google, some get slapped, others don't. There are tons of these blog networks with different methods/structures and they're a great way to pump up your rankings if you do it right. Recently google has been on the warpath and knocking these out more aggressively, but many end up never getting caught.

Some folks build their own link networks instead of trusting groups to lower the risk of getting hassled.

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

Ah...OK. I was just curious which is why I asked the question. Also, on another Forum they were talking about these. And yea...they were all talking about how Google was really cracking down on them.

 

[YouGotMyMoney]

G is cracking down on them because they work. BTW, be careful about following anybodys advice on WF. I've read a few posts, and they read like they are the Storm Troopers for SEOMOZ.

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

I noticed that. There are a few posters over there that do seem to know their stuff. But there's a ton of posts like "I interested in do-follow pr8 blog. Please tell me how do it."

 

[agentexhorter]

For those that know the answer and are not speculating...

Check out this website:

earthshareofohio.org

I see them all of the time. Just a series of unrelated articles slapped on a website for obvious linking opportunities.

Are they safe? Or is Google going after these types of things.

Thank you for answering my question. The first five to respond will receive 500 free leads from Malcolm.

Matt Cutts, head of Google's Anti-Spam division recently answered this question "What about the people optimizing really hard and doing a lot of SEO?...
"We don't normally pre-announce changes but there is something we are working in the last few months and hope to release it in the next months or few weeks. We are trying to level the playing field a bit. All those people doing, for lack of a better word, over optimization or overly SEO – versus those making great content and great site. We are trying to make GoogleBot smarter, make our relevance better, and we are also looking for those who abuse it, like too many keywords on a page, or exchange way too many links or go well beyond what you normally expect. We have several engineers on my team working on this right now."

Google makes their money by delivering relevant content that delivers what the searchers are looking for. Where ever many people are looking for something, advertisers will show up.

Google is constantly seeking to develop algorithms that calculate true relevance to their searchers. True relevance is driven by great content not SEO or a number of backlinks.

Great content will create links from people sharing that great content with other similarly interested people.

There is only so much on page optimization that can be done to exhibit true relevance. Most true relevance is exhibited by the behavior of searchers once they arrive at a site.

That's what Google is trying very hard to develop an algorithm to measure.