Link farms and spam blogs aren't going to help you, regardless of their PageRank or domain authority. We can't rely on spam and automation to boost traffic and search rankings anymore. It doesn't help anyone, and it's really just a slightly more...
When blogs hit the scene, we launched the BOTW Blog Directory to help bloggers connect with an audience. GH: We launched the BOTW Media Network about seven years ago, a network of blogs publishing content on approximately 60 topics.
Isn't one in a series of over-optimized anchor text on irrelevant blogs and forgotten directories. Spammed blogs with comments. Created dummy blogs with robot-generated text. How do we, as search marketing professionals, defeat the legacy of spam?
Guest posts: This one is a little tricky, as I'm referring to real blogs and not the "made for guest post "blogs. Blogs in which all of the content is created by a "guest". Blogs which allow unnatural links in the content or the author bio.
Curated Content: Mammoth resource lists, extensive "best blogs in a niche" articles and weekly round ups are each examples of curated content you can publish and leverage engagement triggers to gain relevant links.
Another easy way to generate links to your blog posts in a way that isn't spam is via systems like Zemanta and other content distribution systems. In the age of social media the attention that business blogs used to have is diminishing; traded for...
You can find these folks with search operators like [intitle:“your product nice” intext:“meet our bloggers”] or [intitle:“your product nice” intext: “meet our authors”] since many blogs publish an author’s profile page.
If all blogs stopped accepting guest posts, a couple of things would happen. If quality blogs show that guest posting can be a legitimate practice, then content creators won’t flock to the undesirable sites, and they will eventually fizzle out.
A continued increase in spam, and more blogs eliminating comments altogether. The A-list blogs will be highly coveted destinations and pursued for guest post placement, while those who are not as selective about what they allow on their blogs will...
A very popular technique these days are to add category tags to articles, posts, or blogs. Use a good spam scrubbing software to flag bad comments, limit links, and make sure to have some method of human moderation.
I suspect it also won’t take long for large “disavow links” lists containing well known link farms, known paid link sites and otherwise poor quality sites to start showing up on blogs and forums that Webmasters can copy and paste into their own...
It’s no longer a case of finding a list of directories, articles, blogs, and forums you can submit to. Do enough to get on their radar and add value to their conversations – don’t stalk or spam them! Whether it’s social media submissions, social...
To help ensure that you are indeed producing linkable content it's helpful to visit related blogs, forums, answers sites, etc.and find commonly asked questions or discussed subjects in your field; preferably those with poor answers.
For example, ask the 10 big ones to write a blog post on their company blogs about a topic relevant to both of you in your industry, with a link back to your site. Comment on relevant blogs and sites without doing so in a spammy manner.
They were the only one with ~60 percent links coming from low quality blogs. Still, there are some major gaps in their algorithms that can be exploited (you can see some of the most spammed keywords still contain spam pages in the top 10 results).
You may have better luck finding contacts with some blogs, especially those selling paid reviews, or link space independently. Websites that have built an unnatural looking backlink profile using a strategy of aggressive exact match anchor text...
Four sites had a variety of different types of links such as directories, link exchange, articles published on different blogs, sponsored links, and social media links. Google Penguin Web Spam Algorithm Update Feedback Form Now Live
Immediately here the number of blogs from our domain (the black column) created cause for concern. Like any problem finding out where the issue may lie requires a segmented approach and we analyze 12 different metrics of the profile including such...
Exactly what they sound like: networked blogs. Also a great alternative to Google and prides itself on being a spam-free search engine. A new search algorithm designed to detect, and boot out, spam. S - Sitewides, Social Signals, SERPs, Spam
Unnatural anchor text in a class of links (e.g.all the links you get from blogs are anchor text rich, or the right rail links are, or the footer links are . Will a human be fooled by a spam post like this one?
