No More Homepage Links For BMR

I have just checked and noticed that there seems to be no links from the homepages either. Something strange going on there. There is no way the links are going to be effective if they are not coming from the page with the actual PR, especially for the amount of time it takes to create a unique blogpost and have it appear on a PR N/A inner page.. It is more than just a software glitch as I have just checked multiple pages and they are all the same.. Has anyone received any communications from BMR explaining this?

I have received a response to the support query I sent them that basically says that the performance that we have seen isn't from the post being on the homepage but is due the the link juice that flows through the entire site so having the link on the homepage is not important. Unfortunately though if there was a reasonable amount of juice flowing through the site we would see our post pages having a PR higher than 0 especially for posts that are 6 months or older. It also states that the move has been made to preserve their network which essentially means they have disabled the feature that actually gets us the ranking performance we have been seeing from them..

I think many people will find it very hard to justify the effort it takes to create unique content that is filtered by their editors to never actually see our posts hit pages with any decent PR.

They are done. They actually had the nerve to tell me it is the link on the blog and not the one on the home page that carries the weight. Yeah, I do not think so. I will be cancelling my subscription after this month is up. And if ppl think this is a quirk and they will change back here is their response to my support tickets. Their responses are in bold.


I noticed on the recent posts that have gone live there are no active links on the home page but they are active on the actual post page. This is not the way it has been in the past. Is this going to be the way BMR does the posts from now on? This is a major issue since all of the links will be on inner pages with no PR.


Hi XXXXX, BMR is not a HPBL network and never has been. Any PR benefit your posts get from being on the homepage for 2-3 days is incidental to the primary purpose.

Best regards,

John
BuildMyRank.com


So are you saying this is how the posts will be from now on?

XXXXX, that is correct. This will help to insure that posts remain indexed longer which is where the actual value is, not from having a PR link for 2-3 days.

Please reply to this ticket if you have additional questions regarding this issue.

Best regards,

James
BuildMyRank.com

Riddle me this...

What is the difference between a HPBL network and a guest blog network?

Why wouldn't BMR, ALN, etc simply relaunch and re-label themselves as a matchmaking service to connect guest bloggers to blogs looking to accept guest posts?

Wouldn't that mean that they are no longer considered paid links since users are not paying for links but rather the matchmaking service it's self? And, it's evident that Google <3's guest blogging.

What the heck, ramp it up a notch - they can even splash "This service is not intended / not to be used to increase your backlinks" all over the front page.

Does changing the semantics change the outcome? Perhaps what we really need a better PR spin because personally I see no difference between those two animals other than user intent (assuming no spun content & good QC).

My point exactly

Agreed. I just paid my sub fee about 5 days ago, but after seeing this here and not getting any notice from BMR about it, I just cancelled my subscription.

I'm holding hands with you my friend. The main site (a 3 month old site) I was concentrating on went from having one keyword in the top 10 of Google to having 8 after a month of using BMR. My main keyword was ranked #2.

Then I knew something happened. My main keyword is now #79 and my highest ranked keyword is #24. Traffic dropped to near zilch.

Sure… but the way to adapt is not to completely destroy the most powerful aspect of your network in one fell swoop. A good portion of your networks power is Google initially giving you credit for that high PR homepage link.

Now I understand that there is power when posts fall off the homepage but without Google seeing that the link was once "trusted" to be on the homepage you are massively reducing the effectiveness. You are not going against what is "popular" you are making a knee jerk reaction that WILL kill your business. Your network is not worth the unique content and the monthly fee if Google never sees that initial high PR link and passes that trust. You guys are making a huge mistake if you think people will stick around for this new, much less effective service.

This type of piss poor response is exactly why I quite using BMR.

#1. the quickest way to become irrelevant is to not communicate important changes with your PAYING customers. It doesn't matter what Google does as we don't PAY them.

Aside from that your new editors need to actually be schooled on proper English and grammar as they don't have the first clue.

I understand you're in a tough situation, but just making a wide sweeping change like that without giving your members the option to opt-out before you implement it is a kin to stealing my money.

We pay for a certain service, I just paid for that service as well as paid to have a whole bunch of links created and I probably wouldn't have had I known what was coming - are you issuing refunds for the current billing period?

Yeah but putting it like that is NOT the way to address and explain it to your customers. Plus I trust you do know how domains get deindexed. They get reported by competitors alot of the time after the competitors do backlink checks. It won't matter if the page is on the home page or not. Google isn't just deindexing pages they are deindexing domains.

Ha, ha, I remember that forum thread, he was determined to bring BMR down, the guy was getting a little nutty about it.

I suppose it only takes one guy to nark out a BL network.

Then why don't links from ezinearticles, squidoo, hubpages, etc have the same effect?

Why did they not tell anyone? Well, they have a NO REFUND policy. So that means if they change their entire structure and don't tell anyone then their customers don't have time to cancel a sub before they realize what is going on.

When you are a paying a monthly fee for something, that company has an obligation to tell their customers that they are going to be changing how things are run. Considering that you are paying for the membership specifically for a certain reason, if they take that reason away they really should tell people.

This is very shady businesses practices for sure.

-- Jeff

Don't bother. I had a couple of sites like that, they lost about 60% of their backlinks and ALL of their rankings.

-- Jeff

Out of #45 comments in this thread, why did you single me out, because I made a joke about the older nutty BMR thread? It was funny, why wouldn't I make a joke?

All jokes aside, If you don't think that a single person can expose an entire private BL network your living in a dream world. Which BMR wasn't even private to begin with.

I've defended BMR in the past & actually recommended them without any financial gain (nothing), so why are you getting so irate?

The fact that they chose to approach the entire situation with a "we'll do whatever and you can deal with it how it is" mindstate made me open up my eyes a little wider.

Yeah, it's their business - they can operate it how they want to. That doesn't mean I'll give them any more of my money, though. I understand the frustration, but c'mon - approaching it like that isn't helping much, is it?

Some of us are using our brain :rolleyes:

How fast post rolls off the page by itself is immaterial the issue is how fast does the link with PR from the home page fall out of GOOGLE's link index and that depends also on how often the page is crawled.

SO the link can stay on the home page for a day or two but then say its not crawled again for another day or two (or more) then google will continue to hold the link in the ranking algo. SO OBVIOUSLY people did get some links indexed in Google with high PR at least for while. This is why people say they get better results if they keep posting. Even for those pages that don't get crawled regularly some part of the successful users (in any given day or week) of BMR would be those who had links on the front page when the bot last crawled.

In fact for people who posted regularly (and those ARE the people who say they have had the most success) at any given time they WOULD be likely to have at least some or one link being counted while still on the front page and THAT could be the reason in some serps for their success and their continued success as they keep posting.

Yes there was/is the benefit of juice flowing through the pages but first I don't see BMR (but perhaps they have changed) using the proper navigation to dispense that juice optimally for other pages AND second I think you have overlooked another reason why a Network would tell you they will not post on the home page where the PR routinely is higher.

AND I AM NOT ACCUSING BMR OF ANYTHING but its a logical possibility

If your network has lost juice its harder for people to notice if you are telling them not to expect their link pages to have have high PR. I have to think of that possibility because the idea that a site is protected because it has no links on its home page is kinda weak.

Before making such statements always make sure you have a complete understanding of the issue you are calling people clueless about.

Your current sites/rankings will obviously not be effected; any posts you make after the change was implemented will only be effected (duh)...

Content has always been an important part of SEO and getting your site up and popular but keep building links as it is still part of SEO today, I would suggest guest blogs as an honest and good way to spread your links...

Good Luck!