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BMR: DELETE my articles? or leave them up?

by Carol19
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Hi guys, I've been a BMR user for 8 months (submitted 400 articles, each about 300 words long). BMR has an option for subscribers to remove the articles they wrote and posted. Since all 400 of my articles are on deindexed blogs, should I just leave my articles on those blogs? Or should I click the "remove all articles" button?

I can't decide which is the safest thing to do.

Even though those blogs are deindexed, big-G may still crawl them (we just won't know about it), and if big-G discovers 400 links gone, that would red-flag my money site, right? On the other hand, if I leave my posts up, big-G might send a special 'secondary' crawler to sniff out all the anchor links and penalize those sites, right?

I know it's pure speculation, but I know there are lots of REALLY smart people on this forum -- Mike, Yukon, Paul, would love to hear from you guys!
#articles #bmr #delete #leave
  • Profile picture of the author JeanneLynn
    I'm in the same position. I haven't deleted my links from BMR yet. I just worry that deleting them may make the situation worse.
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    • Profile picture of the author theverysmartguy
      The deindexed articles are not doing your site any good in the first place.

      I would just delete them.

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  • Profile picture of the author IM Ash
    I agree with Jeff! These links are going to cause a penalty in most cases! It will be wise to delete your articles because Google is going to ask you do that anyway i.e. if your site is penalized! And even if there isn't a penalty the links are still worthless!
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  • Profile picture of the author tracy123
    Carol,

    I am too a BMR user and that too from 1 year, have more than 3000 blogs posted and was in a similar mess as you and other users but I have now decided something. I will delete the posts which are pending and submit them to other blog. Along with that I will copy paste the content of each of my BMR posts live URLs which are indexed. After a month of BMR shut down I will check for all the titles in quotes from the posts I have downloaded which was mine only. Whichever post I will not find indexed, I will just use that of my post for another blog. I think this idea is a good one, lets see.
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  • Profile picture of the author oldvintageguy
    Interesting question. Has a similar thing happened in the past? If so, what were the results of what others chose?
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  • Profile picture of the author 36burrows
    They have been deindexed by Google, which means their network of sites are now considered spam. Types of sites that you do NOT want your own site attached with.

    Delete them, I know it's hard to do since the time and money invested in them is huge, but it will be better in the long run.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cataclysm1987
    Here's the thing. Everyone is screaming, delete them! Delete them! But why? It's a waste of time.

    First off...if they are deindexed by Google, do you really think Google is still crawling them? Probably not, so they have probably already indexed your links, then applied whatever penalty they were going to provide, then forgot about the sites.

    Second, if BMR is going out of business, and they are, don't you think they will cancel the hosting and let the domains expire? I think so too. So the sites will be down in a few months no matter what, and your links gone, even if Google bothers to crawl them any more.

    I say don't worry about it. There's nothing you can do.
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    • Profile picture of the author bgordon
      I too am on the fence regarding whether to delete, or not. However, I thought I read that not every one of their sites was actually de-indexed. (I believe they said the number was about 70% being de-indexed.) If this is true and then all the posts are suddenly gone then you might actually take a bigger hit than necessary.
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  • Profile picture of the author mrtrance
    I went ahead and requested to have all links deleted from all my domains. But when I go back into my account it just seems nothing as happened since I can go back and request the delete again. It just says the deletes have been queued and make take up to 1 week.

    Also should we just delete our domains from our accounts at this point or it doesn't make a difference at all?
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