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Spammed Blog Network - Can it Be Used as Backlinks?

by momo3
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I have a blog network of several PR4 and PR5 sites. These sites also ranked well pre Penguin 2.0.

Unfortunately, some person I hired spammed the crap out of these sites recenlty. I don't know why she did it...

They tanked with Penguin 2, then she spammed them, so they kind of have a double black-eye.

I am wondering -- is it worthwhile and safe at all to put articles on these sites and still use them as backlinks?

They would have about 2 contextual OBLs, homepage, that is it..
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  • Profile picture of the author Bit Designs
    I don't believe having an article with a link back to your site would harm it, but I also don't think it will be any value at all and probably not worth the risk.

    Since you have the sites, why not try build them back up? At least try and remove the mass of harmful links.
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  • Profile picture of the author Clyde Dennis
    If they maintain their PR through the next update then yes, they can be useful.
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  • Profile picture of the author GerardCoyne
    In time they may well recover, I would wait through another algorithm update, however. In the meantime keep adding fresh content, it can only help, and set about removing the spamming links.

    Good luck/
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  • Profile picture of the author momo3
    I am not talking about getting the SITES to rank again. What I am asking is: will contextual backlinks FROM these sites (they have PR) still have any value?
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  • Profile picture of the author guillaumejd
    Do a checkup with majestic SEO and analyze their trust flow if its low don't bother.
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  • Profile picture of the author Voasi
    Just test it.

    No one "really" knows the answer... but you could. You could easily put up a few links and see if you rank for the keyword you're gunning for. If you see movement, then pagerank is still passing. If you aren't moving up, then those domains have probably been stripped of their pagerank.

    Either way, it will take you 5 minutes to setup - then wait and see.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by Voasi View Post

      Just test it.

      No one "really" knows the answer... but you could. You could easily put up a few links and see if you rank for the keyword you're gunning for. If you see movement, then pagerank is still passing. If you aren't moving up, then those domains have probably been stripped of their pagerank.

      Either way, it will take you 5 minutes to setup - then wait and see.
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      It doesn't take much to test it.

      I once spammed a domain of mine to see how long it would take to get it penalized, result was that it ended up with PR5 (mostly blog comments at high PR pages), when I linked back to my money site the kw didn't improve but well it was a 60k exact keyword that was already ranking at #3 so the test was kind of flawed as one link often won't move you up when you already rank high for a competitive keyword.
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  • Profile picture of the author momo3
    I am sorry to ask an annoying question -- but what is a low trustflow on Majestic? I did not record what it originally was. But now its a 9.

    UPDATE:

    Ouch i see with the historical it was a 13 before..

    Note: This is just one random site from the blog network.
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