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SEMRush drops paid guest blogging service after Google policy scrutiny

gftshappy — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 23:22:33 +0000

Google said selling paid links on blogs is against its webmaster guidelines and that Google can take action against those using the service.

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Video: Ann Smarty on the history of guest blogging & the future of link building

gftshappy — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 23:23:18 +0000

Remember when Google cracked down on guest blogging? Ann Smarty does, she ran MyBlogGuest that got hit hard by that penalty.

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Google Webmaster Guidelines Update Calls “Low Quality Guest Blog Posts” Spam

gftshappy — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 04:26:29 +0000

Google has updated their webmaster guidelines, specifically in the little or no original content guideline, to add “low-quality guest blog posts” as an example of “scraped content.” Brian Ussery first spotted this change, noting how Google has been fighting the use of guest…

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Google Slaps Another Guest Blog Network: PostJoint

gftshappy — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:26:52 +0000

Google’s Matt Cutts somewhat confirmed on Twitter that Google has taken action on another guest blogging network. This network is named PostJoint and claims “there’s no footprints.” Someone tweeted to Matt that PostJoint was penalized. In fact, if you check out Google for a…

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How A Single Guest Post May Have Gotten An Entire Site Penalized By Google

gftshappy — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:24:21 +0000

Google made it clear earlier this year that those doing guest posts “for SEO purposes” might be subject to penalties. But the latest chapter in its war on guest posts feels a bit crazy: an entire site put into Google’s penalty box because of a single guest post that Google…

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Authority Is The New Links: Reading Between The Lines Of Matt Cutts’ Guest Post Critique

gftshappy — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:25:43 +0000

The SEO industry has been all aflutter over the last few weeks, ever since Matt Cutts stated that guest blogging is dead. In The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO — a headline that is a particularly strong statement from Google’s Head of Webspam — Cutts essentially said…

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Matt Cutts: “Stick A Fork In It, Guest Blogging Is Done”

gftshappy — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 07:28:03 +0000

Google — and Matt Cutts, in particular — has made a number of statements about guest blogging over the past year as the tactic has grown as a link building tactic. None of those statements are as clear as the one Cutts wrote today on his personal blog. Cutts, the head of Google’s…

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