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Thanks Brent, we are not asking 100's of bloggers no, we select a handful that we feel would have the most value, then send them emails asking if they would like to review product "x"

We are just about to promote a product and currently have 16 of them to offer out for product reviews, however I didn't want to do that if I was going to be punished by the hand of Google!

This is where I get a little confused!  If we ask a blogger "hey would you like to review product X" and they reply with a yes, this is classed as soliciting?

How else do you go about getting the review, or more importantly the link!  whilst we are happy to follow the rules, sometimes this is not always easy as we also need to build some inbound links, product reviews are a good way of doing this.

We only send products for reviews to bloggers that are relevant

ok so let me get this right!

1. Stay with-in my niche (which we do)

2. Not getting reviews that are on a blog network

3. Making sure the link remains in the post and not all over the blog.

4. Do use dofollow link  <---- this is still ok?

5. Link to the product that is being reviewed and not the site homepage.

As long as I follow these rules I Should be ok?

Also is it ok to use the same blog for a different product review?

Thanks

Daniel

Hi Guy's,

We have been sending bloggers products to review and in return we ask for a link back to our website to the relevant product. As I now understand it, Google is no longer giving this any weight & bloggers are being advised to use the "no follow" tag.

So have I understood the new rules correctly? If so is it worth us continuing to send bloggers products to review?

Thanks

Daniel

Hi,

We do have a blog, I just tried the link and it worked fine?

The only link is from the about us menu. Is that ok?

Thanks for the advice, I have now changed the page title to match my H1 tag

Thanks for the reply, I need to get some call to action on the page... Maybe a "click here to shop for natural beauty products" ?

Cheers

Daniel

yes we do

Hi Guys,

We are trying to increase our rankings for the term "natural beauty products" for our home page....

I have created an article all about natural beauty products with the url as...

domain/natural-beauty-products.html

what I am worried about is this... because this page has more information all about the key word phrase & the url is the keyword phrase, will it out do my root domain ranking?

I created the page to try and give the home page some weight for that key phrase, now I am wondering if I should have had the url as something like "why we love natural beauty products"

then in that page included the keyword phrase link back to the home page!

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks

Daniel