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Blog Networks Destroyed Along With Rankings
Thousands upon thousands of webmasters are experiencing one of the worst pitfulls in their career so far. It’s said that over 60% of people who perform SEO have used one blog network or another. With many webmasters and seo companies relying on the power of blog networks to keep their sites and their customers ranking high in the dominating search engine “Google”.
Google started to take down and delete any blogs which were part of a blog network. The first to take a big hit was buildmyrank.com who have recently stated that they will be closing their doors to the public as they lose over 95% of their blogs. With this mass de-indexing also comes a ripple effect for all those people who relied on their blog posts to maintain their high rankings.
The strange thing is that buildmyrank always tried to do things differently and one thing they were known for is only accepting unique content.
You see most blog networks use spun article (they use unique article and mass-change the synoms) so that they can create hundreds/thousands of unique article at the push of a button. The only problem with this is Google hates rubbish content because the articles hardly make sense and therefore provide no real value to the reader.
The reason I believe buildmyranks network became uncovered was due to it’s users reselling the service on the likes of warrior forum, what they would do is post 30-40 posts to buildmyrank which then get submitted to a random selection, within the post they would use what’s known as a unique identifier. This is used in order to track the posts submitted meaning you can find the blogs your posts are now on with a quick Google search.
This is where the big flaw in their system appeared, if users can find the blogs so easily just think how easy it would be for Google.
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Seo Management Kent
There are thousands if not hundreds of thousands of regular people claiming to be seo experts because they have some rubbish tools that are only good at spammy other sites and getting your rankings to increase for a short amount of time. I was speaking to a bloke the other day called Lee Belcher who provides seo management in kent for local business’s. He really does have a great understanding of SEO and solid ways to rank for local searches.
A local search is:
Basically when somebody is searching for something locally, i.e. if you own a hotel in rye then you may want to target the search “hotels in rye” etc.
If you were to target the keywords “hotels” (which is extremely competitive and would probably cost you around £5,000 a month) then your not going to get enough conversions or extra business to cover the cost.
Anyways his website is cyberrankings.co.uk, I highly recommend you check it out if you live in kent.
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Why Are You Commenting Rubbish?
It amazes me how many people still believe that by blasting their websites with scrapebox and spamming the internet will help to increase the rankings. Do you guys really feel that we are still back in the 1990′s?
Because just about the only time that kind of crap worked. The sad thing is that most people are actually claiming to be SEO experts and blasting real quality companies across the web who then in return end up receiving a bad reputation and countless emails compaining about their methods.
Internet marketing is not a joke it’s a business so try and start treating it like one!
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The Future Of Link Building
Everyone seems to be having a fit at the moment due to Google to de-indexing every link builders favourite method of link building (blog networks). The have been thousands of threads especially across warrior forum popping up everday with people asking “is seo dead” “blog networks no longer work” etc…
The problem is most of the information shared by other users is far from true, yes “public blog networks” are currently under attack but that does not mean private ones are. I have networks of blogs and if you were to read a blog in my network you would never realise that it’s whole intention was for building links to my main site.
I has unique posts just like this one, unique graphics and most importantly it actually sticks to one topic. unlike the public blog networks where you are able to submit any kind of spun garbage to them on any topic. I mean can you really blame Google for trying to get all this crap out of their search engines? I can’t!
But one thing is for sure, quality is more important so if your thinking of setting up your own network just make sure you actually put some love and attention into the site, make it worthwhile to readers and Google will leave you alone. However…
If you build one just so you can submit your crappy spun content then be ready for when Panda kicks your ass.
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Should You Buy Backlinks?
A lot of webmasters and internet marketers will usually end up asking themselves this question from time to time. The are a whole host of reasons for this but the main one being the fact that it’s easyier.
Let’s be honest with ourselves, even though there’s countless amount of evidence suggesting that quality beats quantity especially in 2012. Many people find themselves looking for the biggest link package they can find for the cheapest price possibe. The main problem with this is obvious. If you could just buy 100,000 profile links/blog comment for $10-$20 and rank your site high enough in Google to receive a good amount of traffic then the search engines would be full of nothing but rubbish. Any joe bloggs could wip up a site in 10 minutes using wordpress or another easy platfrom,throw on some usual garbish the call content and start making money from Google adsense or other forms of advertisement.
It’s only when you look at it from this angle that you start to realise, Hey wait a minute! It can’t be that simple.
And you couldn’t be more right, you see Google want’s to give it’s searchers the best browsing experience possible. The last thing they want is the first few pages of a search dominated by spammy content that’s of no use to anyone.
So unless your willing to spend the proper money to get quality backlinks and unless your willing to spend the time writing content that’s actually useful then I really just wouldn’t bother.
However… And this is a big however
If you do have a quality site and are looking to buy some quality backlinks here are the things to look out for.
1. DO NOT bother with any kind of spammy methods, why they may of worked a few years ago they don’t anymore. I know it’s not what most of you want to hear but its FACT. A bold statement for SEO i know but with countless studies and tests it’s been proven time and time again.
2. You want relevant links! Even though any kind of quality backlink will still help to increase your rankings or at least make your websites link profile stronger you wan’t them coming from a site relevant to yours.
3.If the deal sounds too good then it probably is. When people claim to build 1,000 article manual with unique content for $20 or so then what they really mean is they are going to use an article submission programme, scrape an article of ezine, spin it and then submit it to there list of directories.
- Don’t get me wrong, article marketing is really effective when done correctly. But if your going to spin an article at least write a fresh one first and then spin it by hand.
So in answer to our question, should you buy backlinks? Yes but not just from any joe bloggs claiming to be an seo expert.
