Google KILLS Press Release Submission as Backlinking strategy! Alternatives???

[zebrahat]

My press release gig on Fiverr et al has actually been getting more orders in recent weeks, not less, so I think Google is again just trying to scare people away from using free traffic building strategies, in order to push Adwords on them.

I agree that links from quality, high PR sources will continue to help sites rank. Properly and diversely created, Google cannot tell if they are natural or not, or purchased or not. There are now hundreds of low cost gigs on the gig sites that offer NON-blast, low volume (15-30), high PR manually created backlinks with diverse sources and anchors. When ordered from different parties and dripped/staggered out over weeks, how is G going to question them? Good luck with that, Mr Cutts.

 

[SysFailure0x5a]

A link is a link, its been this way since the beginning and will be this way until the end, the only difference is the weight the link carries.

Now lets say for arguments sake Google does go after PR's they will likely go after those spammy pr releases you see everywhere spread across shitty news blogs, but high quality press releases on news wire that actually make it onto Google news and MSN news etc etc proper legit authority sites - how on earth can they devalue those high quality type of links... think about it?

This was my thought. I'm pretty sure PR releases on Google News and MSN news will still push the TrustRank to your site. Just use general SEO in the title, description, and in the PR, but use your brand name or a full sentence as the link.

EXAMPLE:

A HREF="hxxp://microsoft">Microsoft</a>

NOT:

A HREF="hxxp://longnichedomainname/niche-keyword.html">Niche Keyword</a>

 

[lmxftw]

that gives me an idea thanks!

oooops shouldn't have said that... now fiverr is gonna be full of PR gigs

My press release gig on Fiverr et al has actually been getting more orders in recent weeks, not less, so I think Google is again just trying to scare people away from using free traffic building strategies, in order to push Adwords on them.

I agree that links from quality, high PR sources will continue to help sites rank. Properly and diversely created, Google cannot tell if they are natural or not, or purchased or not. There are now hundreds of low cost gigs on the gig sites that offer NON-blast, low volume (15-30), high PR manually created backlinks with diverse sources and anchors. When ordered from different parties and dripped/staggered out over weeks, how is G going to question them? Good luck with that, Mr Cutts.

 

[thejake]

Solution: buy press releases, request chargeback, forward documentation to Google showing links weren't paid for, rank and bank.

 

[Techxan]

Google is devaluing links from press release SITES, not press releases. Links from press releases that get published on the web because the release was newsworthy to someone is not going to hurt you

Press release sites are glorified link farms. So are article directories. .Link farms are bad, no matter the format.

Many people doing SEO know a well crafted press release works wonders for traffic and SEO.

 

[mickyfu]

The day I can't rank my sites by using backlinks I may take note of all the complete and utter shit being wrote on the internet. But at this moment in time, I am more than happy to just keep throwing links at my sites and making money.