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Which blog should I use?

by birdfood
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I started a blog network around a month ago that consisted of 5 web properties, 2 blogspot blogs, two wordpress blogs and a squidoo lens.

The purpose of the blog network is for links to my money site.

Each property had 7 outbound links. 4 to the other properties, one to a youtube channel, one to a money site and one to source site.

I put 4 unique articles on each property manually roughly once a week.

Just logged into one of my blogspot sites and found google had shut it down as a spam site. Really disappointing. Comes with using free hosts.

I want to keep doing this but on blogs that are not going to be shut down. So my question is, apart from wordpress, what are blogs can I use that will work well in my blog network and are not likely to be shut down???????
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  • Profile picture of the author MarkH45
    Here is a large list of dofollow blog properties and Web 2.0 sites: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...do-follow.html

    There should be no reason for them to get shut down if all you are doing is trying to build links. Just make sure they all have images, maybe some YouTube videos, and a couple relatively decent articles on them. Make them look like actual (real) blogs...
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    • Profile picture of the author Joe118
      Don't interlink the blogs that are supposed to send link juice to your money site. I don't know why people insist on making link wheels. Is there proof that linking all these sites together helps the money site rank any better? It does leave a footprint for search engines to find you. Link out to other sites to obfuscate the fact that you're trying to juice up your money site.

      And yes, using other sites does come with the risk of being shut down.
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      • Profile picture of the author birdfood
        Originally Posted by MarkH45 View Post

        Here is a large list of dofollow blog properties and Web 2.0 sites: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...do-follow.html

        There should be no reason for them to get shut down if all you are doing is trying to build links. Just make sure they all have images, maybe some YouTube videos, and a couple relatively decent articles on them. Make them look like actual (real) blogs...
        Thanks for your reply Mark. I'll go over the blogs listed in the link you provided.

        Your suggestion of adding images makes sense and is easy to do.

        Originally Posted by Joe118 View Post

        Don't interlink the blogs that are supposed to send link juice to your money site. I don't know why people insist on making link wheels. Is there proof that linking all these sites together helps the money site rank any better? It does leave a footprint for search engines to find you. Link out to other sites to obfuscate the fact that you're trying to juice up your money site.

        And yes, using other sites does come with the risk of being shut down.
        Thank you Joel. From your comment, blogspot is fine "IF" the blogs are not linked to each other and looking very spammy? My goal was not really a link wheel but for the blogs to support each other. I guess the end result is still a link wheel.

        Do you think that the blogs with out links from the other blocks will still provide reasonable link juice to the money site?
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      • Profile picture of the author Lady
        Originally Posted by Joe118 View Post

        Don't interlink the blogs that are supposed to send link juice to your money site. I don't know why people insist on making link wheels. Is there proof that linking all these sites together helps the money site rank any better? It does leave a footprint for search engines to find you. Link out to other sites to obfuscate the fact that you're trying to juice up your money site.

        And yes, using other sites does come with the risk of being shut down.
        Good information. Thank you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joe118
    Birdfood, there's a finite amount of "link juice" flowing through each page. I don't understand this concept of "supporting each other" for your disposable blogs (i.e. not your money page). In the end you want to route all that link juice (or as much as possible of it) to your money page. The fewer hops it needs to travel, the better, IMHO.

    You can "support" your blogs by linking to them from a third tier of sites, like squidoo, weebly, etc. That will send extra link juice through them and eventually help your money site to rank, w/o leaving too obvious a footprint (IMHO).

    Oh and you allude to the blog looking spammy. I don't know for a fact that a Google employee even looks at your blog and decides its spam based on what it looks like. More likely your blogs are flagged by an algorithm that identifies a footprint; perhaps after that they *are* looked at and (in the case of blogger) deleted or (in other cases) deindexed.

    If your blogs are intended to send human traffic through them to your money page then they do need to look good. If it's only a link juice gambit, I would concentrate more on avoiding footprints and not so much on what it looks like (pretty colors, good formatting, etc.)
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    • Profile picture of the author Arun Pal Singh
      Originally Posted by Joe118 View Post

      Birdfood, there's a finite amount of "link juice" flowing through each page. I don't understand this concept of "supporting each other" for your disposable blogs (i.e. not your money page). In the end you want to route all that link juice (or as much as possible of it) to your money page. The fewer hops it needs to travel, the better, IMHO.

      You can "support" your blogs by linking to them from a third tier of sites, like squidoo, weebly, etc. That will send extra link juice through them and eventually help your money site to rank, w/o leaving too obvious a footprint (IMHO).

      Oh and you allude to the blog looking spammy. I don't know for a fact that a Google employee even looks at your blog and decides its spam based on what it looks like. More likely your blogs are flagged by an algorithm that identifies a footprint; perhaps after that they *are* looked at and (in the case of blogger) deleted or (in other cases) deindexed.

      If your blogs are intended to send human traffic through them to your money page then they do need to look good. If it's only a link juice gambit, I would concentrate more on avoiding footprints and not so much on what it looks like (pretty colors, good formatting, etc.)
      Makes perfect sense. Send all the link love to your own site rather than to give them mutual care.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ronak Shah
    Probably that page may show up a pattern of being called spammy.

    Google hates spam.

    So, if you're writing content that sounds like spam to google, they shut your blog.

    Probably it may have sounded like duplicate content / spam to google which is one reason why it could've happened. Check your articles, in case you've a copy of those articles, on Copyscape Plagiarism Checker - Duplicate Content Detection Software / articlechecker.com

    Another thing could be, it may have been flagged by an individual by mistake or even by a competitor. Competitors often report links to google administrators that spam Google's SE.

    If you can contact the google administrators and ask why it's been shut down, you would probably realize the best reason why it was shut down. Somehow it may have been breaking google's TOS.
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    • Profile picture of the author birdfood
      Thank you every one for your help.

      Thanks to peoples great replies, I know now which blogs to use AND how to improve my blog network and deliver better link juice to my money site.

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  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    Originally Posted by birdfood View Post

    Just logged into one of my blogspot sites and found google had shut it down as a spam site. Really disappointing.
    Does the Blogger blog look legit or is it just a big bag of links?

    If there's content there and it's not just links then you can request an inspection and they'll reinstate it.

    Blogger uses an anti-spam bot that will lock down blogs under certain conditions. Some of those conditions include when newer blogs follow certain common spamming patterns such as having several external links, having Javascript in a post, posting too quickly inside the interface (cut, paste, post within 10 seconds) and so forth. Minimize the number of external links, include links to authority sources (YouTube, CNN, Wikipedia, etc) along with your links, don't use any scripting inside the post and if you cut-and-paste in articles, edit them a minute or two before publishing them. Do this and you'll avoid trouble.
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    • Profile picture of the author dspa72
      Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

      Does the Blogger blog look legit or is it just a big bag of links?

      If there's content there and it's not just links then you can request an inspection and they'll reinstate it.

      Blogger uses an anti-spam bot that will lock down blogs under certain conditions. Some of those conditions include when newer blogs follow certain common spamming patterns such as having several external links, having Javascript in a post, posting too quickly inside the interface (cut, paste, post within 10 seconds) and so forth. Minimize the number of external links, include links to authority sources (YouTube, CNN, Wikipedia, etc) along with your links, don't use any scripting inside the post and if you cut-and-paste in articles, edit them a minute or two before publishing them. Do this and you'll avoid trouble.
      I don't agree in total with you
      Of course, we cannot know the spam filters of blogger.com. Also, why reducing the cut-and-past should avoid the spam flag? I've tested this matters, and the only limit is that if you make more than 50 actions (add posts, edit, etc...) in 24 hours, they will ask you to put a captcha code to continue. I've put the captcha code in several blogger blogs, and no one of them has been flagged as spam.
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