If you are not a crook, I'd like to pay you well for a blog post But let me tell you who I think is a crook: 1. Someone who's using a dropped domain and not explaining that it's dropped is a crook. Why? If the domain acquired PR before dropping, it's likely that the PR is not going to stay. So you're a crook for trying to capitalise on the temporary PR you have as a result of the toolbar not reflecting the new reality. I sometimes get excuses like "I didn't know it was dropped". Bullsh*t! 2. Someone using third party content. Why? If the content is not original and unique, you're a crook if you're not mentioning it when selling links. It may be legally acquired (such as from article directories) but it's effectively dup content and the SEs may be giving it zero value (something you're not telling your customers) 3. If your blog consists mainly of sponsored posts, you're a crook. Why? You're a crook for conning the SEs into thinking you have a blog when all you have is a link farm. That said - and controversy generated - if you are not a crook, I'll pay you well for a blog post. I'm interested in most niches and I'll give you quality destinations to link to. Simply PM me with the URL, price for a blog post and your confirmation that your blog isn't one of those described above.
So much truth in that post. Ive been trying to get some links for a while now and spent $$ on crap thats more hurting then good. Sry for offtopic. gl buying
Thanks for all the PMs, all the greens and all the replies. I've obviously hit a chord I'll be replying to all PMs from "non-crooks" within the next 24 hours (I haven't read all the PMs yet). To reply to some of the questions: Minimum PR of your blog = 1 (so I know it's not PR barred) For the very top blogs I'll take the trouble to write the post myself (example: PR6, 10K+ daily uniques) but for all other blogs, the owner will need to write the post. I'll pick the topic and link most relevant to his usual content. I'm totalling p*ssed off with the cheats, crooks and scamsters. So now for the naming and shaming: I considered disclosing URLs but... if you PMed me you provided that in confidence so I'll keep the confidence. However... dhanjitseo, your 50 blog network is more typical of link farms than blogs. That you have taken the trouble to host all 50 on "different C class IPs" was wasted effort when they leave all the footprints of SPAM networks. PM deleted. puredigits, you start by saying that you are not a crook and the very first site you offer me has articles from articlemark.org. It's not difficult to find these things you know. I just take a snippet or two from a post and stick it in Google. Usually, taking the last few words of one sentence followed by the first few words of the next works a treat. Even more reliable if you have any unusual words in there or a spelling mistake! Deleted. bd90, you start of so well with a travel blog and relationship blog that may turn out to be half-decent. But then you link me to a general blog that has the potential to suck if you improve it a bit. Your last post was on "Payday Loans" and the ones before that were about finding the right drug addiction center (excuse to use a "drug treatment" anchor) and a reputation management post for some "Jon Stromberg" (anchor) who's trying to regain SERPS from sites slagging him off. All five posts on your frontpage look sponsored. Yucks! SCLocal, your first link looks like a nice PR5. But then it goes downhill with this dup content and this. It may look okay to others but I call crook on this, sorry. Delete PM. More comments tomorrow.
i'm with you on this 100%. i buy lot of links and most of the time these days i run into dropped domains one after one. i get lot more dropped domain PMs these days than i did before, thanks to DP's no thread bumping rule for which i cannot quickly post on the thread saying PM me if the domain is not dropped. i get furious when i run into those dropped domain sellers. one guy started a Pm fight with me claiming i didn;t know what a dropped domain was. when i made him agree that the domian was dropped, he changed direction of the conversation. fu**ing crooks, you all will burn in hell i'm not selling any blogposts btw . just dropped by to express my anger
I did post them, promise I did. But going back through DP rules now I can see how those back-to-back posts may have looked like bumping so they got deleted. Here's a couple of comments I still have: Nichemasterflex loves my post, says he's a professional SEO and then gives me an automotive website with articlebase content. Obviously he didn't learn "nothing" about dup content in his prestigious SEO university. Deleted. cutechuskay offers me a site that has a variation on articledirectory/ezinearticles content - it's got press releases. I suppose that's one way of getting free content. But that's not unique content. You're crooked, mate! Delete, delete. sultanofseo, it would be great if DP did some automatic checking like they do with sites for sale. Then each thread could include information on WHOIS etc. This could be done whether or not the link seller wishes to disclose his URL in public (but he'd have to disclose it to DP).