SearchWarp has implemented a policy of nofollowing all external links from their site. They say it is to combat spam. I have a different view. I think this is just another link-juice scam like SEO Chat pulled last year. SearchWarp's words don't match their actions and if you have been using it to build links forget it.
thanks for pointing that out man. that does piss me off. oh well, 33 links instead 34 authority links to each page is better than none at all!
What bugs me is they tried to play coy about it by saying theye were "toying with the idea" and apllying it to "very limited" articles instead of just syaing "we banned all external links" which is what they actually did. Just bad policy in action.
oh, ok. but then if they're so concerned about spammers and giving free links, they should have the same process that other high quality sites have like asking for a sample writing, a photo, ect, ect. right there, that would scare most spammers and i know of smaller directories i submit to that have very strict guidlines about your articles being too short, looks to much like an ad and key mentioned too many times. it's their own fault for excepting the articles in the first place IMHO.
I agree. If you ask for free content... you're gonna get what what you paid for. They have standards they just don't enforce them properly. I was asked what they should do instead of nofollow the links and I came up with 4 solutions off the cuff including a "flag as spam" option for viewers. I mean, they already have a rating scale - how tough would that be, really?
The people at searchwarp realized that they got found out, and just placed a lame excuse on their blog. I will never give them anymore of my articles after trying to pull one on everybody.
Just posted my update. I'm glad they came clean and I think for once we agree on a definition! The word in question being "compelled".
that's cool they explained, but those other sites are mostly supplemental pages. that's still a waste of time for me and article submitting for the most part.
I think they tried to get too big too fast and got crossed up running multiple sites. My understanding is there is only a few people behind the whole thing. Which makes me wonder how many articles are really manually reviewed like they claim. Just implementing that step alone would eliminate the majority of the spam. Spammers target sites that are easy to manipulate with automated processes. Humans screw that up.
yep, i think that's why most who use auto-submission don't get any benefits cause they just auto-submit any 'ol article until they're blue in the face to 500 directories with no guidelines.
They actually deleted my whole account a few months back because they were recieving too many articles on my subjects. No warning, just a deleted account. I would never go back after that.
i just submit my articles once a week to all the directories. it' possible you could get banned for that but you'd have to be extremly prolific to do so i'm guessing.