Can someone define what a low quality blog is supposed to look like?
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I know the recent Google update devalued a lot of low quality blogs, but i'm having a hard time understanding what can be considered low quality? My site is www.247VirtualAssistant.com and it wa sitting in the top 3 for all my keywords(virtual assistant, virtual assistants etc etc). Last month everything tanked and now on the 2nd and 3rd page for my keywords. I'm thinking this is because of a lot of my links got devalued but with my limited SEO knowledge, i'm having a hard time identifiyng these. Please help!
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And if i did get penalized, how can i fix this? What kind of link building can i concentrate on now?
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And if i did get penalized, how can i fix this? What kind of link building can i concentrate on now?
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Yes possibly. i also think the UAW blog network got devalued which i did use for a very long time. The thing is many of the blogs i have links on a high PR(5 and above) if google was devalueing these, wouldn't the PR suffer as well?
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you'll know one when you see one. usually unrelated posts, short articles with several dofollow links with anchor texts. no contact info. tons of blogroll links to unrelated places, or even WORSE blogroll links linking all of their splogs together,.
Are you asking this because you bought links on blogs and think it may have caused you to get penalized?
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As above... Thumbs up.
Also consider whether they have contact details, what kind of sites they link out to. Check what kind of sites link in to it. Have a read of some of the articles, are they good quality?
Remember not to concentrate your entire time on blog posts to obtain links... Blog links needs to be only one of many link types otherwise you may end up in trouble.
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Link Purge? Can you elaborate? My site primarily got on the first page using tools like UAW, guest blogging and couple of automated link builders etc.
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A low quality blog will have a few of the following features:
1.) Out of the box WP Theme with no changes
2.) Scraped content or obviously low quality content
3.) Automation - check to see if every post gets re-tweeted/Stumbled/etc
For your site, it's probably a link purge. That's one of the reasons why earning links on a monthly basis is a must.
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