Why is everyone so concerned with BMR lately? If you like it, use it. Mix it in with your other link building efforts and keep working your sites. If you don't like it or you are paranoid about its longevity, go back to whatever methods you feel more comfortable with.

It is just a blog network that posts unique content. Its not an IM revolution.

I think it is because they only accept unique content. Perhaps Google sees their content as valuable? I try to write my articles so that they have value. I usually don't stop at 150 words. I try to make some 200 or 250 words. I also do some 300 or 450 word articles too.

Seems like a lot of their sites were deindexed lately and they stopped accepting new customers a few days ago.

BMR probably sets itself apart because it has quality guidelines but I don't think anyone is visiting their blogs to get information. I think it can be used as part of an overall link building strategy.

There are blog networks which have indeed VERY strict quality guidelines, so the content is helpful to some extent. I haven't used BMR but use similar networks..you cant just write junk and post it for the sake of a link.

Also, BMR is very fussy about the sites that they will accept into their program. Look at the strict guidelines they have:

BuildMyRank.com – Link Building Service Featuring High Quality One-Way Backlinks » Domain Acceptance Guidelines

If your site isn't good quality with unique content written by native English authors, you will probably be rejected. I read somewhere that you can't use BMR on a site that isn't in the Google index (too new to be indexed or deindexed).

So, I'm thinking that Google may see BMR as good guys. They're not promoting spammy and horrible sites. They make sure your site is good before you can even build backlinks to it.

There was a guy on the forum a week ago that was real angry and threatening to make trouble because his site was rejected by BMR.

And now they have closed registrations to keep the network less crowded. I guess that's good news for current members. We will be staying on the home page of the blogs longer.

People like you, who constantly make BMR related threads, are the true threat to these networks. The more you guys talk about it, spam about it, waffle about it, the more chance it has of becoming an issue to the network.

Seriously, just stop posting these threads and maybe, just maybe, it will have a fighting chance and people just like you can continue to use it for years to come.

Obviously because they only accept unique contents.

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Google IS working on taking down BMR. Many people are reporting their BMR links being gone after a few months to a year b/c the blogs they were on were deindexed. Google IS deindexing and has deindexed quite a lot of BMR's blogs. But BMR has a large enough customer base and enough money to keep on buying new blogs to replace the deindexed ones. When they are running short on the number of indexed blogs, they close their site to new members until they can get enough blogs again (this is basically their business model). So if you build links w/ BMR, it is likely that after 1-2 years, all of those links will likely be gone. You have to keep on building links continuously with BMR in order to sustain your rankings.

What sets BMR apart from most blog networks is the fact that they only accept unique content and all posts are manually reviewed for grammar and spelling. That means that these posts at least have to provide a little bit of value to the reader which Google likes. I don't think Google has a problem with BMR in particular. They are more focused on cracking down on duplicate content, spammy, content farms.

I actually regret that they don't accept gambling sites because a VERY large portion of my money comes from gambling affiliates.

BMR is friendly to google. they only accept unique content.

Anyone that thinks BMR posts provide value is fooling themselves. It's not meant to provide value, and it doesn't. What value is a 150 word post on "plumber san francisco" to anyone?

Total meaningless gibberish doesn't mean anything. Google clearly intentionally hunts down and deindexes BMR domains in my experience.

But, it can be quality content instead of just gibberish. I think BMR should require quality, informative posts and get away from the personal stories that ramble on and on about nothing just to get the keyword in there. A writer can create a personal story that is also informative but, from what I have seen, most do not. A post that explains when you should call a plumber provides better 'value' than a post telling a story about the time my toilet was overflowing so I had to call a plumber and thankfully he fixed the problem before my carpets got ruined blah blah blah. At least that's my opinion.

Ezine Articles is not going anywhere and they are the same thing as BMR if you think about it. Millions of people posting crappy, but unique content to an overloaded site.

That would be so time consuming.

BMR work I think because of its relevancy probably which is though not more than 30% when it comes posting in relevant sites but it posts the blogs in relevant category. Blogs/sites it posts content in is kind of link farms which is good but not that mush. However, I think it is still the content because of which the posts are getting value.

Hello,

even if that is a rare occurrence those blog could be found and read easily...

I can only imagine the look on someones face if they came across one of my backlink articles lol

Alina I wouldn't say "easily" unless you were using an in quotes search for text from the article, but being unique content you would have to have already read (thus know the location of) that specific article. Most of these posts won't rank for anything significant anyway. Maybe a few lucky long tails here and there for very low volume terms. But it's highly unlikely your 150 word BS post will rank for something like, i don't know, weight loss.

p.s. If you know of another way to "easily" find these blogs (besides the "fatal footprint") please p.m. me the details. I have a mastermind group that would pay top dollar for that kind of information...

p.p.s. This thread should just die now...

I found one of my BMR posts on the first page of Google for a keyword I was using. I was trying to see what page my website was on when I saw a familiar title in the search results. It was a post that I'd written for one of the BMR blogs. The funny thing was that my site was still on page 3 for the keyword. So, BMR posts can definitely rank in Google if they're good enough.

For a while BMR came out way on top of my Great Link Building Experiment. It beat out LinkAloha, 1WayLinks and UniqueArticleWizard. But after stopping link building for a few months, the UniqueArticleWizard and 1WayLinks site jumped above BMR. So it seems that BMR is great while actively building links but fades quicker than the others if you stop.

Remember, Google can't possibly manually police over 8 BILLION indexed web pages. There are likely another 8 BILLION that they don't index. If a person could review 1 webpage every few minutes they could only look at a few hundred a day. If my math is right, to look at even 10% of the web pages only once each year would take over 15,000 people working manually. And it's constantly growing.

So they don't play whack a mole with small players like BMR. At most BMR has a few thousand sites out there. Google wants to catch as much as they can in their algorithm and use a smaller team to manually check only the worst offending sites in a small number of categories (Porn, Gambling, Make Money Online, Weight Loss, etc).

Because Google loves them. They only put out unique content that is easy to read and good grammar/punctuation.

hi. i have an unused account that seems to be wanted due to the closed account sign ups. . should i sell it or keep it? $50 offered is tempting...

A case is against them with google with all the proof that is all i can say .....avoid it asap...if your sites are found having BMR links they are toast ....

I have a BMR account but have never used it, and so I can't attest one way or another as to article ranking success stories. Other than stumbling upon this thread, however, I can honestly say I've never heard anything but praise about the BMR network and its effectiveness from those using it.

Truth be told, there are most likely hundreds if not thousands of 'organized' keyword-promoting blog networks out there of different sizes (operating in closed, private networks with minimal footprints) about which we may never hear.

That's because they are effective, self-serving, well-guarded, and the members don't advertise them, or reveal them in public forums as they have too much to lose.

It is only when these networks become well known that the sheer weight of their success (coupled with the ill wishes of those who despise their good fortune) pose a threat, and those who resent them seek to usher in their potential demise. (Those who are less successful (in their own minds) often react with resentment toward those who excel, rather than improve upon their own performance.) A once 'secret' society may therefore rise up from seem-ed obscurity to overnight fame and infamy. It's a phenomenon that never ceases to amaze.

That said, it appears the organizers of BMR are mindful, wise stewards and protectors of their goose that lays the golden eggs. It appears they are pulling up their draw-bridge, strengthening their borders, and protecting their territory.

Let us wish them continued success; we shall all benefit from it.

"The pioneers get the arrows, but the settlers get the land." - Unknown

Google doesn't seem to be 'going after' the News Media, WordPress, Squidoo Lenses, Hubpages, Digg, and countless other keyword 'network' opportunities; it appears they have an aversion to poor content, activity that is obviously gaming the system, and things that threaten the integrity of the Google experience. They, too, are protecting their territory.

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