Is it safe to sell backlinks/guest post in marketplaces that display your domain name?

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Tell me paranoic, but I feel uncomfortable seeing my my websites' domain name info displayed in backlinks/guest posts marketplaces (like publisuites, bazoom....). But on the other hand, I feel I'm missing some good opportunities to make an extra cash from my sites.

As a seller, do you use those marketplaces? Do you think Google is spying those marketplaces?
 
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AmazingParty said:
Do you think Google is spying those marketplaces?
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I'm not a seller but yeah, google are monitoring everything that can jeopardize their business, and as soon as they figure out the entire network they're going to deindex it completely. This is what's happened to BMR
 
tazarbm said:
I'm not a seller but yeah, google are monitoring everything that can jeopardize their business, and as soon as they figure out the entire network they're going to deindex it completely. This is what's happened to BMR
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Can you talk about BMR, I have no info? Was it a guest posting marketplace ?
 
SeoIsArt said:
Can you talk about BMR, I have no info? Was it a guest posting marketplace ?
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It was 2012, about the same time of the year as today, Google Penguin upate had recently rolled out and hundreds of link farms where hit.

One big player among them, was BuildMyRank.com or BMR. It was a link-exchange marketplace where sellers would offer to place links on their site in hidden to viewers but visible to crawlers section of their webpages (and sometimes even visible sections too) for a price.

Google spotted them just around the Penguin, figured out all the sellers, and deindexed like 90% of their network. It was a massive blow to the point the site shut doors.

Here's a post about it:
https://searchengineland.com/google-eliminates-another-link-network-116513
I was like 8 years old back then, too young to build sites and make dough. But those who were around, made some serious money selling links just before Panda and Penguin hit.
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SeoIsArt said:
Can you talk about BMR, I have no info? Was it a guest posting marketplace ?
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I don't remember, but it was a link building network (that was too expensive for me back then, but worked wonders for ranking).... But yeah, probably a guest posting type of network, such networks were very common 12-13 years ago
 
tazarbm said:
I don't remember, but it was a link building network (that was too expensive for me back then, but worked wonders for ranking).... But yeah, probably a guest posting type of network, such networks were very common 12-13 years ago
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BMR, now that's a blast of nostalgia for me this morning! ALN was a similar one too.

AmazingParty said:
As a seller, do you use those marketplaces? Do you think Google is spying those marketplaces?
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I think it's pretty safe to say there will be at least a level of 'spying' that Google employs, especially on marketplaces with any degree of popularity.
 
tazarbm said:
I'm not a seller but yeah, google are monitoring everything that can jeopardize their business, and as soon as they figure out the entire network they're going to deindex it completely. This is what's happened to BMR
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Do you think the same could happen to some popular marketplaces with thousands of sellers? Take into account that some popular/famous sites are selling links there.
 
just sell without showing full url like exampleXXXXXX post.com Guest posting is not illegal and not a BH method Just Make Your Sites as Authority sites thats it.
 
Yes that's a big issue not only because of google but also because of hungry niche hunters like me.

I spent a lot of time hunting for niches, keywords, topics that I can take advantage for my niche projects.
 
AmazingParty said:
Do you think the same could happen to some popular marketplaces with thousands of sellers? Take into account that some popular/famous sites are selling links there.
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yes
 
MKSKS said:
Yes that's a big issue not only because of google but also because of hungry niche hunters like me.

I spent a lot of time hunting for niches, keywords, topics that I can take advantage for my niche projects.
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that's interesting, can you elaborate a litle bit more, please
 
The thing is Google wil go for the big players first and deindex them. Link exchange or guest blog network is not worth it even if they hide or stay under the radar for too long. It's only a matter of time until Google fish them out.

Don't waste your time. Don't risk losing your ranking either. Better to rank for your site with time even if it's just your brand name than get yourself deindex completely.

But you can still sell guest posts as an authority site. Just hide your ass lol. And don't go create a "we sell guest posts here" kind of page.
 
AmazingParty said:
that's interesting, can you elaborate a litle bit more, please
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Nothing much to elaborate.

I need to build niche websites both for myself & my clients.

For that I need profitable, affordable, low competitive niches & keywords.

So, any source on the web that gives me a list of niche websites is a good for me.

I can reverse engineer these sites for my advantage.
 
Always try to hide the info of your website before putting it in the marketplace or anywhere. It is a good practice.
 
AmazingParty said:
Google monitors online content and the potential for deindexing websites or networks that violate their guidelines. BMR is a service that was heavily used for SEO purposes but was ultimately deindexed by Google due to malpractice.

I suggesting that if Google identifies a network or service that harm their business model—like through spammy links and low-quality content—they will take action to remove those sites from search results. This is part of Google’s ongoing efforts to maintain the quality and integrity of search results.
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Google is not spying marketplaces, but is spying most of the internet. Small marketplaces are not so much noticeable if your site is just being listed there with its domain and some metrices but if it is being listed with text content that clearly tells how the link will be published on the site in exchange of money then search engines can know you are offering link for money. Because they index and understand what a website is offering by the content they see about it on internet. Few times of such mentions may not be noticeable but lots of such mentions can create an impact because when search engine decide to take down the sites that are offering links in exchange of money, they will see their index to find which sites are those for which it significantly mentioned on internet that they are selling links.

Also, Listing it on marketplace sometime means you provide a link from your site to to the buyer irrespective of the quality of content they are providing you to publish. And if that's a low quality content then your website performance might go down naturally because of the low quality content while search engine have not identified it doing anything wrong because of listed in a kind of marketplaces.
 
Really bad idea, Google can see the sites are selling posts and other link sellers will just scrape all the sites and outreach them.
 
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