Google penalizes MYBLOGGUEST-popular guest posting community

Well that sucks. Ann worked like a modern day slave to keep that place in good shape. Sucks to see em go. I have 1 site still in the system accepting guest posts but it appears to be ok. Did notice a small -3 drop on one money site that has a ton of links from sites in MBG, but -3 could be anything so not really worried at the moment. Should be though considering that one site makes roughly 30% of my income

On a side note, there's a huge underground network that I'm waiting on to get hit. RE, from the creators of BMR Out of sight out of mind.

Dennis,
I think you are right. I have it on good authority that some of the most 'recognized' names in a few high profile niches actually operate 'blog for pay' schemes. This is directly against Matt Cutts' public pronouncements but these operations apparently are so well-respected and so undercover that Google can't see through them.

Brands for sale... The next step in the every expanding arms race between G and link builders.

What is really making me laugh about this situation is all the "White Hats" up in arms about it. They really believe this was "natural" SEO and not just a well camouflaged link scheme.

They did not allow publishers to mark links as nofollow if they chose to. So how is that not a link scheme?

We all know Smarty was into SEO long before MyBlogGuest existed. She had one goal with that setup, backlinks for SEO.

If she called an airplane a train, is it really a train?

One of the top competitor in my niche LOST its ranking and apparently got penalized as I can not search the domain using his brand in google.

AS A MATTER OF FACT, the site had couple backlinks from MYBLOGGUEST

Can not be a coincidence. OR can it?

So true…

"Ultimately, this is why we can’t have nice things in the SEO space: a trend starts out as authentic. Then more and more people pile on until only the barest trace of legitimate behavior remains. We’ve reached the point in the downward spiral where people are hawking “guest post outsourcing” and writing articles about “how to automate guest blogging.”

The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO

With that so many small guest blogging website which are accepting guest blogs also got manual action messages. I have one of it.

Yes! I have also heard it and read the matt cutts tweet. Its clear that Myblogguest is now history. Google Now warns that they can take action against the sites using myblogguest.

You gotta love the ignorance of the general SEO population.

If Google proactively deindexing and publicly telling people isn't proof that Google's algos are rather rudimentary than I don't know what is.

Paid links are Google's Achilles heel, they can't identify them and they know that. Put fear into the masses and maybe that will stop the problem.

Meanwhile I'll settle with my paid links and ranking well. It's about finding the right paid link sources. Too many become too large and are then targeted by Google. Looks like link removal services are in the money thanks to Matt c.

^^^ Yes! ^^^

It seems that Google has started a manual action against MBG and all linked blogs. Robert from JaguarPC.com contributed a guest post on my blog via MBG a few months ago and yesterday I received an email from him with the link removal request.

It all depends on the quality of the site where you submit a guest post and scale of the guest posting on the site. If the site is high authority, recognized site with PR5 and it publishes only 10-20% of its content as guest posts - then it's highly unlikely this site will be penalized, ever.

On the other hand, website PR2 with 90% of its content guest posts. Do you see what I mean?

i have seen that most of the guest blogging sites is affected by Google update in march.

And, then of course, there are the small sites that simply cannot be explained why they're always on top of serps do absolutely nothing seo-wise, have like 6 or 7 backlinks from nowhere special, haven't made a blog post in a year, have no social network integration. Yet, top of the list.

This situation just confirms my belief that posting on big blog networks and sites (that are used by many site owners to spam backlinks) is a bad idea. Although, anymore it's hard to know when any backlink will be good, even when your intentions were the best.

I'd like to say it would be alright to hand pick blogs for high quality guest blog posts as a way to create content/backlinking but that's looking doubtful now.

The world that Google wants to reach, is so untrue and unreachable.
The Utopia that Google is trying to reach is rare to happen and unreachable.

Do you think Google were providing more relevant results without the
help of SEO done by IMers?

The current position that Google is standing today is partially due to the
efforts done by Search engine marketers in past years. Sites with heavy SEO,
means the owners of the domain have budget, money, and a company behind
it and their business is important for the them since they use SEO and spent
budget, money and time.

I compare SEO in virtual internet world to advertisement in the real world.
You advertise and spent money, because your business is important to you.

Google wants providing the best answer to its client's query.
But what does it want to provide for terms such as "Web design", "buy car", "seo"
and lots of competive terms? A bunch of storylike websites such as wikipedia,
about.com, wikihow.com and etc... doesn't answer the question. Instead the
searcher wants an strong company behind the services or products they are
presenting to.

Let me stress it out that a natural search results is one thing and the best
search results is something different. Of course I believe the natural results
will tend to approach the best results with time, maybe after years, decades
and centuries depend on the shape of these two different worlds i.e internet world
and real world.

In reality, for competive terms, no searcher wants a natural search results but
instead, the best results, strong companies, with a lot of exposure and
advertisements that I call this, SEO in an internet world.

I think Google has lost its way for making the web without SEO but they don't care
that SEO is partially beneficial to their search engine and its relevancy to the
client's query.