BuildMyRank going out of Business!

Well, google has made it absolutely clear about how they feel about paid methods to get links and go up the rankings. This was bound to happen sooner or later.

just because a site is de-indexed, doesn't mean a company is going out of business.

If you have inside information, though, do share. If not, please don't spread mis-information.

Your post should have said:
"If a site is de-indexed, does it mean it's out of business?"

because you don't know, for sure, do you?

they may be de-indexed on Google, but killing it on Facebook, or Twitter, or Bing, or any number of ways....

Sorry to hear that Jimmy. Did you site that used them go out of business, or a site that ran posts?

What do you plan on doing now?

Kudos to them for going out of business and not trying to milk it along by lying to everyone and saying only "some" sites got de-indexed etc…

Gotta have a lot of respect for that because I'm sure they put a lot of work into that network and it's gotta be a big financial hit.

Lee

P.S. Most all networks of this sort will be soon to follow, Google is gunning for them.

So there are no trusted alternatives to the ones that have closed?

only way to build good and quality backlinks is to build your own private blog network with different class c address so you will be in total control of your rankings

BMR was part of my overall strategy. Fortunately it wasn't a big percentage.

This just may be the kick in the butt I needed to get my affiliate program started.

I have been using BMR on some of my sites. I saw great SERP improvement over a quick amount of time. About a week ago my sites started from dropping #1 and #2 positions quickly, looks like I understand why now. Currently, the sites are still ranked on the first page, I am glad I diversified.

It looks like link building is going to take on a whole different direction next month.

I have never seen google and website owners prepare for an algo update this far in advance. If they do hit link schemes in this update, then good for them. But, many good guys will be taken out by accident, just like with Panda.

I heard about that. It was bound to happen, Google has had them in their cross hairs for a while now.

My apologies if this is posted in the wrong area...
Was a writer on BMR for over a year with over 20,000 articles, had no idea they were shutting down (should have done my research before wondering why all the assignments were gone).. does anyone know another site I can be a writer for? I'll be doing research on this forum in the meantime, was just hoping to get feedback.
Thank you!

SEO on a new arc next month =) sites getting de-indexed, anchor texts less value, etc. So sad.

Want traffic? Buy Adwords.

Google business tactics 101, especially since they don't care anymore about what "webmasters" think, say or do. They just want MONEY - and if you haven't got any to give them, you're out of business.

So, rephrasing line above:

Want traffic? Forget Google and invest in Facebook.

That is why link diversity is so important. never depend solely on one type of backlinks

Here is the way I see things...

Google has it out for these types of schemes for VERY good reasons. Even though there will always be some people using the systems in ways better than others, the truth is that it's really not worth the overall price for Google. Because a lot of it simply clogs the internet up with crappy, half-ass content that dilutes the value of information shared across the entire web until it's a watery bunch of useless ****.

Then what happens? We go to Google and ask for fruit juice when we punch in a search, and what we end up getting is a melted goddamn popsicle instead. Yuck. Not what we were looking for. There's some juice in there somewhere, but now it's so damn hard to find that Google is no longer very useful, is it?

I know that we all want to be on that first page. But be realistic. There are only ten results shown on the first page (typically, if you're using the old standard search instead of the annoying non-stop scrolling version). That's only ten slots for whatever the hell it is that we're hoping/trying to rank for. Granted, there are tons of different keywords (thankfully), but still...it's like anything else that we are competing for...except for with search, we're kind of up against the rest of the web (fierce competition, obviously). How often are we really worth showing up on the first page?

I think we can all agree that there are tons of great sites within each niche out there, but if we were attending the Oscars for internet marketers, would we expect to beat out EVERY other great site that we're up against?? Probably not. It just wouldn't be realistic. Just because you don't win the grammy or the golden globe does not mean that you have to be less successful than whoever comes in first, right?

I know they say that the majority of people don't look past the first page or two of search results, but that seems hard for me to believe since I almost ALWAYS do. All that matters is connecting with those people who are serious about finding whatever it is you have to offer, and you can build your own success from there.

Trying to game the search engines is really no different than cheating. The only reason it has worked in the past is because the process is automated, unlike an award show in which a panel of judges evaluates each act and the best takes first place.

I agree with the others in this thread who have pointed out the amount of effort it takes to create great content is surely no more than the effort put into gaming the system.

Just my two cents.

Many of you knew BMR. He was a playful school-going 2-year-old. And then yesterday, he was smacked down by the Lord-ah! God bitch-slapped him right down to the fiery depths of hell-ah! – Pastor Fat Ass


Sooner or later he's gonna cut you down!

How many people, gurus, etc have you guys heard that swore by BMR and how their quality was so high, etc, etc. My general thought about BMR was that perhaps their quality was a bit too high. I tried them out some time ago with their 10 free links and it was very difficult at the time to get them to approve just one of my posts. Moral of the story is Quality, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. The Big G. They're obviously making a statement here. Powerstrike may hold a more "fuller proof" solution but until then there's always one of my favorites, ALN (which also experienced about 20% de-indexing recently), Article Ranks, Greg D with his ABC was pretty good but they've removed the article submissions in their new 3.0 version which in my opinion was really what gave the network the most horsepower, nevertheless when I used it, it worked pretty well. Traffic Kaboom is also pretty good.

I believe that as smart as Google is, we (IMers) as a whole will always have the edge, hence be a bit smarter than the Big G.

I was wondering why many of my posts has gone from top of SERPs to second or third pages earlier this week. I understand the reason now!!!
I'm not sure but is this the end of SEO era?

I think we need a reality check here. BMR might have made it easier for people to rank sites. But the demise of BMR certainly isn't the end of SEO! How do you think people ranked sites two yrs ago before BMR launched??

BMR has offered to remove all links in thier network to your sites. If you have not been nailed yet by google I wonder if removing them might save your butt!

I'm on 2 blog networks as well and gonna dump them if they don't show positive results...

This is the danger of any links network, a shame because I did like BMR and had nearly 1200 live posts !They were a lot stricter with content than other sites which no doubt resulted in many page one rankings which ironically may have been the downfall when google started looking closer at the network and any potential footprints.

I posted a recent review of BMR which is now pointless at Build My Rank Review and Alternatives | kevinmcnally.org

Interesting point about sites with links coming from BMR sites potentially being deindexed, pretty easy for competitors to buy links at all the network sites and point them to your site if it was that easy.