How to select a quality site with SEOmoz root domain ranks for guest blogging?
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Hi all!
I'm going to submit a few guest posts to several web sites. When I'm selecting a blog, to submit a post, I use SEOMoz root domain statistics ( specially DA).
I need to know what is the optimum rank level for select a good quality website to submit posts? Currently I use DA30 or higher sites. Is it a good?
Apart from that, what are the other criteria that I should check? Specially after the penguin 4 update?
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Check : http://www.zen-zen.info/festival-de-silence-3eme-edition/
Useless website; webmasters post cheap content to get a link.
No social engagement, ads everywhere... Even if the DA is 44, just forget this kind of website for guest posts.
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If my mother landed on the site from Google, would she call me and complain about the crap that Google's indexing and why doesn't she get better results. That's one measure.
Another would be is this site one you'd feel comfortable putting up on the projector in a meeting and saying that you got a link from them. -
Thank you Erwan your information. Yes PR is a major factor. Could you please give me a clue to identify spammy sites? You mean copy paste blogs?
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Thank you Matthew your information.
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Matthew made a good point with social engagement.
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1/ You could also look the PageRank. If you are PR 3, focus PR 3+ websites.
2/ Most important is the website himself. Does it look spammy or does it have a real content? Is it an interesting website? Is there affiliate links, text link or casino ads ?
If a website is new but has only high quality posts, it does not matter if DA is under 30 and PR still 0.
3/ A natural linking profile means also links from "low" websites, not only from PR3+ by example, especially for a new website.
Look the charts in this article : http://www.seowizz.net/2010/10/high-quality-links-dont-work-natural-profiles.html
You clearly see the natural/not natural profile :).
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Often you can get a feel of the quality of a website from just looking at it.
Does it look professional? Would you be proud of hosting your content there?
Another thing to take into account is the user interaction that a website receives. A website may have a high DA but if the articles have no comments or social shares then it's unlikely the content is particularly credible. On the other hand, sites with lesser DA but interaction through comments and social shares is much more appealing to me.
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