Is Guest Article Submission as harmful as Guest Blogging?

I will drink to that (not cool-aid) but functionally speaking, a lot depends on how the other search engines perform in competition to Google. I mean giving the devil his due, SEO still has to depend a llllott on Google!

 

True that! can't exactly blame Google either. They also have a business to run!

 

So if Google is starting to frown upon guest blogging, what should we start doing to create backlinks that are not going to be seen as negative by Google?

 

Well, assuming that Google's frowns are powered primarily by the intention to remove the clutter in the internet, placing only relevant links would be the answer. The problem starts when the management (who do mostly not understand the first thing about SEO) start clamoring for immediate high rankings and the SEO personals start placing links like they are putting flags declaring their territory. The intention of placing links should be to allow the potential clients to easily reach the website and not high rankings in the SERPs.

 

I think guest posting / guest article submission or whatever you'd like to call it are only dangerous when they are being overused.

For example, if someone was to create sites solely for guest posting and they had heaps of guest posts on there and not much else then I don't think the sites would last too long in today's climate, and the links from them could potentially be dangerous.

I don't think these new warnings from Matt Cutts should stop people from guest posting all together, you just need to be more careful and don't overdo things.

 

High quality guest blogging is still useful, too much of it is seen as spam.

 

Yes I am agree with u.

 

It can't be even if Matt Cutts says it to you. But you must be getting guest posts from high authority, related sites only. Otherwise, it's considered similar to article directory submission and you are in the realm of negative SEO.

 

Exactly, this is what I feel. Everything must look natural. Google is no longer a dumb. It used to happen in past, get more links and get better SERP. Now get less yet quality links and get the SERP. To get most of it you have to be smarter. Find your own way.

 

Depends on the article to be honest. If you put good work int he article it is good, plus it depends on the website.

 

I second the point that if you produce really informative and useful articles, that will still have positive effect on your traffic and rankings.

Don't pay much attention to Matt Cutts' words. Google has, is and will be changing all the time. And I'm sure that more radical changes are down the road.

But it doesn't mean that you should stop utilizing all SEO techniques at once. Just change your approach to them. After all, guest blogging, article submission, etc. haven't died. They just transformed and became less spammy.

Examine the sources you are going to submit your articles into (make sure that they are authoritative websites with a large audience), make your posts maximally useful and informative and you will be fine.

 

I think google is going to monitor the guest posting and guest articles closely. So its better be careful not to over optimize your posts by randomly putting in keywords and back links...

"Well caution always works"