Do sites like these really work?
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This company claims to have a good tool. To me it looks like spam. They claim to automate link building and they claim to use Googles Panda to their advantage.
This site does however use link diversity, not sure about how relevant the sources are for each keyword...
Would this fall into black hat or gray area SEO?
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Umm you just have to look at their homepage to see that it's as spammy as anything. Ask yourself this, does it sound too good to be true?
I would stay well clear of automated tools like this - unless you want another BMR on your hands - http://www.buildmyrank.com/news/its-been-a-great-run
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Good question, and there is a fuzzy line somewhere. There are some real differences between the blog networks I had used and guest blogging:
- Yes, automation is a big part of the problem. It would be clean for a program to suggest content and links to a blogger, but it would not be ok to insert links automatically.
- Guest blogs typically have much higher quality guidelines, a real author with a name, and they don't exist solely for the purpose of linking to external sites.
There are more and less legitimate ways to guest blog. Sometimes you see two friends who write on one another's blogs, knowing nothing about SEO. Then there are some who haggle over anchor text, number of links, where the links go, and so on. To Google, this is not ok.
Like it or not, sensible or not, Google basically wants site owners to act like links have no value to the linked-to site.
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I have never used anything like this as well, where I just submit blindly.
Blog networks that are being punished, did they take posts that are not relevant or helpful and spread them? What if they only add your content (links) to relevant blogs where users can benefit?
Whats the difference between these blog sites and http://myblogguest.com/?
I know that on myblogguest.com you manually pick relevant sites and manually contact them. Is that the only difference?
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That's exactly what a blog network is, and Google is deindexing them and sending webmasters warnings for using them. I don't care whether it's white, black, or grey, but this is clearly a "link scheme" as defined by Google.
I've never used this particular service, so I can't comment on it specifically. I've used a lot like them. You may see some results if you're careful, but it's not like you suddenly rank first for whatever keyword you want. In the end, though, look at all of the wasted, counter-productive effort of people who invested in blog networks that are now shut down.
tl;dr: It's not a long-term strategy.
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Have you ever used a service like this? Do they own the sites that publish your links? Are the links being placed in relevant places?
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Im not sure about Googles views on automations. I have used some programs to automate certain things. You can automate things as long as you do it in the white hat way. For example I can use a link building tool to find potential link partners, instead of blasting one email to all of them, I analyze their site and manually contact them.
Im asking this question to get opinions on this type of service, Wanted to see if anyone has ever used it, or something similar to it. Does it work? Is it reliable? (I would say I am 75% agains it)
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How is it black hat? You still create your own content, they just distribute it for you (getting you the links).
This can easily fall into a gray area.
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In a nutshell
.. no.
Unless you are experienced with 'black hat' tactics and have been experimenting with them for years then I would stay clear of programs like these.
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Hi,
I don't know much about the service if offers, but I'd imagine anything 'automated' would be classed as black hat by Google.
When link building I often go by the moto - if it's too good to be true, it probably is. Depressing huh? But it's a good way of keeping link building under control...
Karen
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