You need to read this if you own/use a blog network (ALN, articleranks, whatever)

I personally have NOT done research yet how blog networks for article & link submission are affected by the latest Google change.

I am talking about networks like ALN, articleranks, seolinkvine, linkvana and similar.

It is clear to me that the "farmer algorithm" targets ALL sites which cover a "wild" variety of subjects, all sites which are not specialized and not targeting a particular niche.

MOST blog networks and the sites in it make the same mistake, they simply accept all the articles (regardless of topic) and might put it in different categories, based on tags, whatever. But the main problem is the same.

If your site covers ALL and ANY kind of topics it is likely it has gotten slapped!

Here is the solution:

Owners of blog networks NEED to revamp the networks and do site-targeted article distribution.

-> Articles which are tagged as eg. "health", "marketing" or whatever NEED to go only on sites covering this topic. Period.

Instead of writing the 900th posting how "article marketing is supposedly dead" and whatever else allegedly is dead..this is a real solution.

If you own a blog network, start the changes now before the network becomes worthless.

Let people categorize their blogs according to niche before they submit them. And make it so that the articles go on the particular blogs.

I don't think that the "wild blogs" covering all kinds of subjects with articles have a future and would be highly surprised if the farmer update would only affect article sites, but not sites in a blog network which are basically the same.