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What SEO factors make bloggers stop accepting guest posts?

by Max Greenflame
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Hi, friends. I've noticed some of my favorite popular blogs stopped accepting guest posts. Some bloggers are just tired of manually reviewing terabytes of poor quality content they receive daily. This is extremely exhausting. However there is also an SEO explanation behind it. I've found out some sources that review this problem in details. But I'm not an SEO guy, I haven't understood the material good enough. Would you help me please? Tell me why guest blogging is dying in plain language. Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
    Originally Posted by Max Greenflame View Post

    Hi, friends. I've noticed some of my favorite popular blogs stopped accepting guest posts. Some bloggers are just tired of manually reviewing terabytes of poor quality content they receive daily. This is extremely exhausting. However there is also an SEO explanation for this. I've found out some sources that review this problem in details. But I'm not an SEO guy, I haven't understood the material good enough. Would you help me please? Tell me why guest blogging is dying in plain language. Thanks.
    You will probably see now, a lot of soft spot guest blogging closing up shop. Due to the huge amount of misinformation floating around about Google going after sites that allow guest blogging.
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    • Profile picture of the author seifelbadrawy
      Google caught on to this. It used to be you can find a .gov website or a .edu website where there's a blog and you can just post links to your website like crazy.

      When your domain rank increases alot in a short amount of time, Google knows that there's something fishy going on, and black hat tactics like these are caught.

      I don't think bloggers getting rid of comments are SEO related. People just don't want inappropriate comments below something they worked hard on. I wouldn't either.

      Also, they don't want links on their blog. It's free advertisment, devaluing the value of advertising on their site.
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      • Profile picture of the author Murphysmurfy
        Originally Posted by seifelbadrawy View Post

        Google caught on to this. It used to be you can find a .gov website or a .edu website where there's a blog and you can just post links to your website like crazy.

        When your domain rank increases alot in a short amount of time, Google knows that there's something fishy going on, and black hat tactics like these are caught.

        I don't think bloggers getting rid of comments are SEO related. People just don't want inappropriate comments below something they worked hard on. I wouldn't either.

        Also, they don't want links on their blog. It's free advertisment, devaluing the value of advertising on their site.
        Everything you wrote is incorrect:

        1). The OP is talking about guest posting, not spam comments.
        2). Guest posting is white hat, not black hat.
        3). Guest posting gives no negative effects to either the site owner or writer. The site owner gets free content and credibility, the writer gets visitors to his site.

        Also, your signature is annoying.
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  • Profile picture of the author Simin
    Guest post usually contains links / outbound links.
    That will reduce the Pagerank of the website
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    • Profile picture of the author Max Greenflame
      Originally Posted by Simin View Post

      Guest post usually contains links / outbound links.
      That will reduce the Pagerank of the website
      But what about comments then? They harm blogs too. I don't feel like disabling comments on my blog.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
      Originally Posted by seifelbadrawy View Post

      Google caught on to this. It used to be you can find a .gov website or a .edu website where there's a blog and you can just post links to your website like crazy.

      When your domain rank increases alot in a short amount of time, Google knows that there's something fishy going on, and black hat tactics like these are caught.

      I don't think bloggers getting rid of comments are SEO related. People just don't want inappropriate comments below something they worked hard on. I wouldn't either.

      Also, they don't want links on their blog. It's free advertisment, devaluing the value of advertising on their site.
      Originally Posted by Simin View Post

      Guest post usually contains links / outbound links.
      That will reduce the Pagerank of the website
      Dafuq has this got to do with the OPs question?
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  • Profile picture of the author bsummers
    I think Matt Cutts discussed something about guest posting. If I remember well, there is nothing wrong with guest posting as long as you create a really good quality content.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    If you look at sites like inc.com, the majority of the site is built be guest post. Pick any one of those inc.com articles & scroll down to the author bio. (backlink), also all the stuffed backlinks in each article.
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