Guest Posting Good or Too Spammed in 2013
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Hi,
Some of the Gurus and Associates have indicated that guest posting is the "Directories of today."
There are some posts from last year about this in the Q&A, but what is the most recent thought if guest posting on quality sites should be avoided?
Thanks.
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Hi Bob,
I am glad your happy with the answers.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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Fantastic responses! And thanks Francisco for the great Matt Cutts video. We'll stick to quality sites and write quality articles.
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Mousa,
well said again confirming if you can write something of value on a site that is not junk or spam than do your best make it worth it and don't go for the crazy anchor text Google is to powerful and to all seem to waste time trying to trick it just understand Google wants what the user wants high-quality content relevant to what they're searching for.
If you can help add to that Google likes if you try to trick Google into thinking you did that Google will punish you. If you don't try and make junk Google will rank it as junk.
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Francisco,
thumbs up buddy. That's exactly what I was talking about I used YouMoz as an example because they will not take spawn or low-quality content. They're pretty picky. just like all search engine optimization anything can be overdone and done incorrectly. I am writing a blog post for youmoz I have spent 7 days on making sure everything is right getting every little detail but I could ever think of and then sleeping on it to make sure I did not leave something out. This is how you see excellent writers ( I'm not an excellent writer) crank out a 2000 page masterpiece in a day Dan Shure for instance every blog of his is outstanding unique and informative no tricks. Would anybody turn him down for a guest post no they'd be crazy to. I like how Matt Cutts stated the bare minimum of 300 words that could release means Google is looking for more and that's what we should do. If it makes sense for the blog which most likely it does.
all the best,
Thomas
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I like how to explain the question by mentioning “if guest posting on quality sites should be avoided” I guess it’s more like article submission… you write a post and you submit it to some shitty blog which you can only mention in your link file that you can show to your client but in real there is no or very low value of links… and after some time you will see Google will start marking as negative so you will get hurt instead of getting advantage from guest posting links if quality sites should be avoided.
hope this helps~
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Listen to the master Matt Cutts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMxC3wQZOyc
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it is like real estate location location location.
Guest posting is not at all a black hat tactic in fact it's something done on SEOmoz through YouMoz every day and that is 100% legit and if it is done in a manner such as is done on this network of course it is fine for you to go out and give your opinion on something on someone else's website. Do not try to use tricky anchor text do not do anything that would be sketchy and you will be all set.
The people getting bad juju from guest posting are the ones giving bad guest posts within content and no purpose but for the link or doing it from a site that Google thinks is less than okay.
I hope I have been of help to you,
Thomas
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