Is this blackhat or acceptable for SEO?
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For those of you who do the article writing/submissions to OTHER sites (other than your own blog)...
do you or do you not emphasize keywords in your articles by bolding them or hyperlinking some of them? (That is not a real hyperlink, just a colored word to show you how they are appearing).
I'm not talking about your sig file - I'm talking the article itself?
Reason why I'm asking: I want to know if this is considered BlueFart or totally acceptable?
I run an article directory, and we screen most articles submitted to us. (I have my admin do a lot of it, then I go back in and follow behind to ensure he didn't miss any garbage
Anyway, when I come across these kinds of articles, it irritates me a little to see it happening in some ways because it's blatantly obvious that they're linking (90% of the time anyway) to a product - sometimes / sometimes NOT related to the article. (When not - it gets deleted instantly).
*Yes* I recognize that the purpose of articles IS to lead people to (usually) products or blogs, but from my standpoint, this often just looks spammy. (In my opinion, at least since I've been doing this for over 12 yrs now, product links SHOULD be in the sig file, especially when its an affiliate link).
Is this something I should just say "ok" to and let them through, or should I be continuing to delete them?
I do NOT want to risk suddenly losing my PR and getting banned because of a few people who are doing something they shouldn't be. Note: I don't do a "lot" of seo - we get tons of organic traffic to begin with so it's not so much a ranking issue unless its considered abuse.
Thoughts?
Amber
PS - not sure why it changed my words to "bluefart" but I certainly didn't put them there! Perhaps a better phrase was "Iffy".
Amber Jalink, Founder http://www.dime-co.com
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