Guest Article Mistakes - What not to do?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Mr.Dog, Sep 13, 2013.

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    Hi,

    It's easy to say "how to do it", but "how not to do it" is a bigger issue.
    I was doing guest article writing for quite some time now, I was wondering what you consider a mistake?

    Here are several issues, dilemmas:

    *I am unsure whether having 20 % of your guest articles on a single site is a mistake... basically all those links would be on that single site...

    *How about also, intentionally doing "nofollow" link-containing guest article writing? I do believe it's still useful. I am not only focusing on "do follow" links.

    *How about not putting up a single guest article for a while... let's say 3 months. Do you think that's harmful for the site?

    *Should we put more than 1 link in a guest article pointing to us? I normally "mix it" with other links.

    *How many of our inbound links should be exact match keyword/anchor text-containing links? I tend to "mix them" as well, vary them, I even avoid keywords.

    *Should we pay for guest articles or just go for the free variants?

    *Should we sell guest articles? Is it that bad, risky? If done in an ethical manner, it could even respect Google's policies. I regard guest articles as a way of advertising as well. Many major sites do it as well!

    *How many guest articles would you write per month for a brand new site? Considering the fact that it's hard to find host sites, even writing the articles is hard enough... realistically, how many? I sometimes do as few as 5, other times about 20-25 per month on average

    Opinions on mistakes and how not to do guest article marketing?
     
    Mr.Dog, Sep 13, 2013 IP