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What Happened to The Old Blog Networks?

by Shaunman
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I'm just starting to get into things like SEOlinkvine which send your content to other blogs in their network and I am curious.

From what I have heard there were a number of blog networks that just created a bunch of blogs and started doing this whole spinning/submitting thing and then eventually google stomped them down and deindexed them, making them completely useless.

From what I understand that was like the first wave of blog networks and the second wave has volanteer sites.

But I'm kind of interested in the first wave of blog networks. Any insight, information on the first wave of blog networks would be great. What happened, why did google punish them? Did they punish them or was it caused by something else? Etc.

Or if I have no idea what I am talking about then tell me.

thanks.
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    Pretty soon you'll see, if it isn't happening already, that these volunteer middleman services like seolv, man, 1wl etc will be going bye bye.

    So easy to get free content nowadays, so private controlled networks are the next wave as you might have noticed
    So whats the point in using them then? What about sites that just submit to article directories? Or is it better to just stay away from all of them and promote my site mannually?

    It's kind of interesting that you are linking to a site that reviews these kind of sites yet you basically think they are a bad long term strategy.
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    • Profile picture of the author Shaunman
      You might want to read the site a little more carefully.

      Of the 4 top ranked services, 3 are private networks, and 1 is a service with ever expanding network.

      Do a test for yourself, use something like magic submitter to submit to directories

      Then use one of these networks to link to similar type of term
      Ok, so places like Linkvana create their own blogs and then charge people to add content to them. How is this different then the "old blog networks" that own the blogs themselves and charged people to write and submit articles for them?

      From what I understand they are the same thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shaunman
    OK, I was thinking you were referring to old networks that ran off of donor blogs for content syndication, or offered free articles to people who wanted free targeted content.
    Ok, now were getting somewhere. I'm new to this part of the SEO world and have heard about "old blog networks" being dismantaled. What I don't get is how and why.

    were there once networks like "SEOlinkvine" that relied on 3rd party blogs to get content and Google somehow got mad at them, found them out, and then devalued all of the blogs in their networks?

    Was it just a company that created 50,000 blogs and then charged people to post on them and then Google just devalued all blogs owned by that company?

    Was it something like Google just devalued all links from 1 IP address and it took out all of those privatly owned blog networks by default?

    Or did nothing ever happen and it is all a myth?

    I'm probably thinking too much, but I like to learn how things work and how they worked in the past.
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    Well I think the blog networks that will survive have evolved with the times. To last long-term, you've got to vary name servers, Class B & C IPs, no cross-linking, and minimize footprints.
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