Although all information about this update is more speculation than fact, it seemed to target private blog networks or
those doing spammy link building.
Not exact matches
This is usually
done because companies use low value or
spammy link - building to boost rankings.
I
do think that the
Link Building profession will come up with some decent scalable link acquisition process at some point to replace spammy guest post
Link Building profession will come up with some decent scalable
link acquisition process at some point to replace spammy guest post
link acquisition process at some point to replace
spammy guest posting.
Done at scale or through
spammy methods and
link building can penalize your website in the Google search engine for months.
This is slightly off topic, but
do you think there's a risk that competitors could use
spammy guest blogging techniques as a negative
link building strategy to knock out their competitors?
What I'm taking home from all of this is, if you plan on guest blogging, be sure to only
do it on a site that is owned by someone you know very well; and on a site that
does not engage in any form of
spammy posting; and one that
does not accept money for guest posts; and one that only contains no - follow
linking.
We don't believe in trying to «trick» the search engines by growing your site with
spammy, low - quality inbound
links.
Content in these verticals actually still takes weight, and even if it doesn't, people generate
links through unique, non-replicable fashions (even if it's still in
spammy ways).
We don't jeopardize your website's rankings with
spammy automated
link building.
«Hashtags don't work, so ditch them,» adds Kat, «and
links in descriptions look
spammy.»
We reserve the right to remove any
links from the list that are
spammy, offensive or don't fit the nature of our party.
I
did this a few times and didn't always include the
link in my response as I didn't want to look overly
spammy.
However... I got a ping from some
spammy site that is ripping off your content I don't want to post their
link here obviously but you can email me about it if you'd like.
I just want to highlight that a bunch of low - quality or spam sites have latched on to «guest blogging» as their
link - building strategy, and we see a lot more
spammy attempts to
do guest blogging.
The truth is, bad
links produce bad results, so you don't want
links from farms, irrelevant websites, pages with low PA scores, untrusted websites, irrelevant forums, low - quality directories, widgets, or with over-optimized
spammy anchor text.
I have to echo @Eric Liu in that theri backlinks could be more than likely low quality
spammy type
links but I can't really say unless I actually
do some due dilligence and research the actual
links.
I don't want to leave a
link and be
spammy, though.