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- Blog Networks Deindexed – The Aftermath - April 6, 2012
- Staying One Step Ahead of Google - March 4, 2012
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Rants From A Conspiracy Theorist
Admittedly I am not completely clued in to all the chatter going on regarding the de-indexing of blog networks. A little over a month ago, I heard Terry Kyle put out a video announcing the death of “Homepage Backlink Networks”. Certainly events in recent days don’t bode well for those who run networks, or those who rely on them.
What is Google Up To?
If I were Google, a public company driven by shareholders demands for profits, I would want to make sure my visitors were happy with the results they are presented with, so they stick around and can be upsold to adsense results.
The first headache I have is the SEO industry. There are lots of clever people in this community (as well as some people just trying to make a buck). I would need to keep them off-balanced so noone gets too close to our secret formula. How would I do this? How about if I leaked to some community members how it worked? And what if I told other community members the exact opposite. Wow I would have a couple of groups running around telling their followers contradictory information they got from Google”. But who to believe? If I am Google I wouldn’t care, because whatever I tell them now will change in a few months anyway.
Once I have this community thoroughly entrenched in debates, I can turn my attention to the people who try to game the system. Suppose I open an account with one of the blog networks and checked out how it worked? What sites were part of it? What if I did this with every blog network? What if I set up dozens of accounts with these services? What if the people who ran these services had no idea? What a load of information I would have to act decisively with networks that have been set up for the sole purpose of gaming the system. What if I created further confusion by sending out a notice stating effectively, come clean and you may get off the hook? How frightened people would be.
Now what if I publicly state that websites exhibiting certain characteristics would do better in results, even if I did not have the technology to identify these characteristics? Would I get a lot of people to listen? Would I throw a lot of people off the scent? You bet I would. created further confusion by sending out a notice stating effectively, come clean and you may get off the hook? How frightened people would be.
Is Google Perfect?
What if my algorithms were faulty? Would I lose my customer base in droves if anyone lost confidence in my results? How would I rationalize this? How about if I create a “dance”?
How would I encourage more ad sales? What if I wreaked havoc with search results to force businesses to hedge their best with ad purchases?
What if I were a conspiracy theorist? I might just share my views with the world. Fortunately this article is science fiction so we have nothing to fear. Or do we?
Read more warped views at my blog.
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huh, interesting. Yes all this COULD be true given the position giant companies find themselves in. However, how can someone truly figure out SEO. Mission impossible?
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Mission impossible? No, but it’s definitely mission difficult. It’s all about getting yourself out there in as many avenues as possible without drawing the attention of Google’s keen eye. “Organic” advertising (not adwords) is a tight-rope that we hope everyday we don’t fall off of, or de-indexed. Once you’re de-indexed you can rest assured that they’re watching for any other website you create, and they’ll know it’s you because let’s face it, Google knows almost everything you do online.
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There are so many questions that will never be answered. I think you are thinking too hard. Google will constantly be changing and it users will constantly be adapting.
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Hi Alan,
I think that’s what Google is currently doing, They’re actually spreading lot of hoax and we should not believe it easily unless we’re sure about it. The main purpose behind such new announcements are to just ask people to not to do something which Google don’t have any solution.
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What if indeed! It is as if the big G read your mind.
I myself have been thinking about this a lot. Just before all this went down I started taking the first steps to build my very own, small/amateur blog network. Now I wonder whether the concept is viable in the long run.
The whole concept of negative SEO also scares me. What does that do to SEO companies, and the companies that hire them? Will small businesses actually fare worse because the people they hire are building out backlinks that are no longer on the good list?
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Hi Daniel,
Its on 11th April, I m going to launch my own private blog network with a totally changed concept.I will review the members’ articles of my own and instruct my technical team to change and make it absolutely unique.No spun versions of the articles will be allowed in the posts as Google dislikes it.Only one backlink will be allowed per article posts.No unnatural links will be allowed.The credit point will be reset every week instead of a day.The reviewed articles will be posted in max 2 blogs per day depending on the credit earned by the members.Apart from the user added wp blogs the articles will also get submitted to other web 2.0 blogs.Google is not after a blog network,its after those blogs which do not deserve good pagerank by submitting spammy articles flooded with unnatural backlinks. I will send you the link to my blog network if you need it.If all the Blog Network becomes Dead, the entire web will come to a halt.:)
Thanks
mban
Twitter: BlogSEOLady
Hmm, it’s plausible that a company like Google may resort to deliberate misinformation from time to time. It certainly won’t do any good to give hints to its “secret formula.” But as much speculation as webmasters are fond of doing, I doubt Google finds it necessary to do this. Just a little change in somebody’s SERP results and it’s enough to fan the flames of a new algorithm update rumor. But de-indexing IS a real threat to every site owner. No argument there.
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Until Google opens the horse mouth and spills the beans, we can never know the insider secrets and motives behind all what’s happening right now. And more importantly we have no clue what’s gonna follow. Going white hat and doing everything on a natural and reasonable speed/volume will keep us safe, at the least. As far as we know, doing too much SEO is not good as of now.
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But what constitutes too much? Is blog posting white hat or black hat? Who’s next? There does seem to be an element of cloak and daggers here, I’ve seen some great sites with quality content get hit badly, and other sites jump up the rankings. I’ve even seen one site (which has not been updated in two years) which is essentially a database with no seo jump from page 5 to top of page 2 in 2 weeks. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to what is currently going on. But ultimately the slow but sure methods will win through, which will see seo spend climb significantly. I can see some users switching to Bing and Yahoo too if G messes about too much.
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I hear what you’re saying but I also think that Google is in a real tight spot. With all the money floating around out there and so many people trying to manipulate the SERPs it makes it tough to not look bad to someone. Especially considering the staggering level of content. Who knows, seems like every day I read some other market that Google is getting into. Nothing would surprise me at this point.
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I was using blog networks, but now i’m creating my own pages to help my raknkngs. there is a lot of work but someone have to do it now:)
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Eh, there is always chatter on there on what counts towards your score/rank and what doesn’t.
Nofollow for a long-time was thought to have no value. Why did people think this? Because that’s what Google said.
But in reality, do nofollow links actually have value? Yeah, they do.
SEO requires work off-page. Whether that is blog networking or otherwise. My guess is that work will still be rewarded to some degree.
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Good article Alan. I love a good conspiracy theory!! If we’re honest it’s not all that unbelievable either…
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That’s the reason why Google could survive and possibly overtake the competition. Its not a easy nor will be, to understand the complete mechanism behind Google work.
But with my personal experience what i could suggest is, SEO takes time and needs patience.
And always get ready to cope up with every change that took place.
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I think we are all slaves to Google. They are constantly changing and we are all constantly adapting to these changes, because what is the alternative?
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You are only a slave to Google if you rely on them solely for traffic. If this is the case then you need to change your traffic strategy and diversify your traffic.
I get my traffic from everywhere so google’s updates don’t really affect my blog
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I have a question
Why Guest blog if you never answer any of your comments???
I thought that guest blogging was all about interaction and networking!
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Blog networks worked so well that it interfered with big G’s “Best” results. Just because they were so effective there will be new blog networks and a never ending war between big G and the blog networks.
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I think the blog networks Google is going after are the ones that are being used specifically for link building. That’s why Build My Rank got axed. They had some great link building strategy going on that was getting content ranked very well, but they were made an example of, and all of their links got de-indexed.
But blog networks like Blog Engage and Comment Luv shouldn’t have a problem because it’s used in a different manner. It’s used more for exposure and possible syndication. It’s not being used as a link building tool.
With link building networks, Google sees a series of duplicate content — spun content in some cases — that are magically showing up in the index. So they’re going to catch on. It seems like we’re back to old-school SEO. You link to authoritative sites, and you focus mainly on content.
Combine those with a social media to get more traffic.
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Nicely said. I would not be too surprised to find out this was true.
Recently, some of my blog posts were de-indexed and it looks like because of low quality and bad backlinks. So why now i am building link in high pr sites. Let me analyze, what does it happens in future..
Thanks for the good share..
Balaji
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Nice conspiracy theory. I like the article Alan. Just one question – Is Google really perfect?
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Google.
They just are too hard to deal with
imagine my sitemap still pending
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some people follow blackhat method.that is very dangerous for a site.
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Despite the warnings from the search engines, you still see many blog networks alive and running, though most of them are on a much smaller scale (under the radar). I think one of the most frustrating things with seo is that the search engines tell you to stop doing something, that it’s been devalued, yet it still works….that’s why people continue to use tactics like buying into blog networks. Hopefully their algorithms will catch up with their messaging one day.
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