... be sure to check out their backlink profile. Why? Simply because otherwise you can get 1) penalized 2) banned from Google. Most people are happy to receive a backlink from each and every site that accepts his article, however that's a big mistake. If you're using blog networks / guest post "communities" make sure that the site you're receiving your backlink from is legit. How to do that? Easy, just take a look at their link profile with MajesticSEO and/or Open Site Explorer (by SEOmoz) and/or ahrefs. Check out the anchor texts first, if you see anything out of ordinary (virus, drugs, pr0n and whatnot!) then walk away. Then check out randomly a couple of sites in that list. It's good if they have social media presence! Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, YouTube channels and so on. Do they seem spammy? Are they (possibly) part of a blog network? If yes, then again: walk away. "Guest posting" is on the radar of Google's spam team. If you don't do it right, you can get hurt pretty badly! Good luck, Mark
I would say stay away from guest posting unless its a very high quality site... if your talking about getting your links on private networks, just don't... you can make your own private network cheap and easy. Its fine to buy links here and there from say this forum... but the big networks always get hit.. i lost damn near all my income because of bmr haha
If you let random people do guest posts on your website/blog you should not be surprised when Google hits you bad, plain and simple.. IMO you even deserve it, because if you are so desperate for content.........
Why would you get hit by google, for letting random people do guest posts on your blog? As long as it matches the quality your readers expect, no problem with allowing guest posts, if thats the route you want to take.
Rightly stated James, it isn't the author that Google has problems with but the quality that they produce. So, as long as a guest blogger to your site is able to produce informative & genuine content that adds value to your website, there's no harm.
I did not say that, I said you should be surprised when you do get hit that is something completely else. I dont say there is a problem with allowing guest posts either. You how ever suggest it is all about the content the guest blogger is providing (you talk alone about the readers and the quality of the article itself). But what about the backlinks he or she leaves in the article? Unknown people can do all kinds of stuff with the backlink you are given on your website for example with a 301 redirect. And that is just one of the few things a guestblogger can do bad on your website. But hey, if you are really eager to get some content of a random person and willing to take the risk be my guest
I don't get random content from any guest bloggers, because I don't allow guest posts on my blog, I write the content myself. And for my affiliate sites, I have freelancers who provide me the content. The point I was making was your post was a load of nonsense. You said and I quote your post: Which I repeat is a load of nonsense! You clearly say that if you let random people do guest posts on your blog, you should not be surprised if you get hit by google. As for the point you made about backlinks and 301 directs, again laughable. I think anyone who allows guest posts will check that kind of thing. I have no problem with the fact you are against guest posts, like I said I don't or would never use them myself, but please don't respond with utter, utter nonsense.
It's always worth checking the content that we get for guest posting. Unfortunately, these are hard to see banned content. If the content have already appeared on the network, we have the opportunity to easily reach them and check them.
Now let me quote myself You are stating that I said you (will) get hit by Google when you allow guestblogging. Which is clearly not the case so you are trying to twist my words. I only state that letting random people blog on your website and you get hit you should not be surprised. Well let me start with this, if you check someone out and have some quality policies about submitting content on your website. Like the domain authority of the website which the outbound links are pointing, history of the website and its writer is that blogger still a random blogger then? Something with misreading and assumptions here from your end. Also about outbound links, dead links can be checked automated. Checking if the source is still the quality source from the time when they submitted it can not be done automated. When you own a website with lets say <50 pages you can maybe do it still manually. But what if you own several websites and have 1000+ pages of content? You might even still link to the original source but what if the complete website is banned from Google? You still stating that is not harmful at all? So at the end you need to trust on the writer and his or her website, do you trust random people? Again an assumption by misreading my post. I said it is a risk letting random people blog on your website, I never said guestblogging is bad, wrong or what so ever. At the end you state even that I'm telling nonsense, so you are saying you can let everyone blog at your website without any risk? You sure you know the meaning of the word random? And what about Matt Cutts, head of Google Webspam team is he telling also nonsense? P.s: when you look up what random means you might also want to look up with rhetorical questions are.
Its important to see if post is unique and which site it will link to. Sometimes people will try to make you to post copied content.