My SEO experience with blog networks

I tried BMR and a few other blog networks but decided they weren't for me. I decided to invest in my own private network last year. Every site uses only unique content. I don't diversify, only contextual links from related niche blogs. I treat every site like I would treat my money site. My rankings have gone from strength to strength.

Sure it's a shitload of work and I have spent tonnes on unique content but for me it works and its worth it.

sldebo said:

My gosh you are a slow learner, blog networks just went under and you think private blog networks are safe?

Even it is it is the same method and system, but hidden, Google will never figure it out, HUH?

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I'm betting a few thousand $$$ that you're wrong there (my costs so far). There is no way possible that my private network will be deindexed, it's made up of many different types of sites - not just WP blogs. If it ever does I'll out myself and my 1K a day site publically here.

yeah..

Saying that link diversity isn't working because of one exemple is a complete and absolute BS.

You don't know what has been done and could have triggered a drop, delation from somebody and manual review are factors you can't have any idea about.

Yes, spammy links will work if you are lucky, it will last for a couple of month, until the day you hit a comment / posts / articles on pissed web master which will delate you at google and they will manually put you down. Moreover, Google algorythm doesn't run a link analysis on each single world wide website every single day. So you might be safe for a 6 months or a year and one day the link analysis kicks in and put you down.

You are going to say "hey kid, i've been doing it for years", well new Panda's update are new so nope you're not. No ones can pretend having the full truth here, we all need to analyze more deeply what's going on.

I have used blog networks and if your balance of links profiles you may remain safe, as you put all your chances to not be hit by a algorythm penalty and you don't loose all your SEO juice, but if a manual review happens no matter what you've done, you'll be penalized.

The point of link diversity is to avoid to rely on one single kind of SEO juice.

Secondly, when you practice link diversity you are actually faking a virality of your website, which is exactly why Google is genuinely taking backlinks as a ranking factor.

If you look at a website such as cnet for exemple, they have backlinks naturally from people on every links profile, your game is to reproduce that virality behaviour to let google know that you are "popular".

To emphasize my say, i've been working on many websites maybe not in the pharma niche, but in gambling one, and i have pretty good results on it. (2nd on "casino online" in a country) The website had some backlinks deindexed which was balanced with others kind of backlinks. Luck is part of the game, as the website didn't get a manual review.

I'm using the very same strategy on every single where i manage SEO, and so far so good. If i'm wrong, if i see that i said a load of craps, i'll come back and tell you.

My point here is not to say that link diversity and anchors diversity is the absolute truth which everybody should apply because me and my ego said, i'm just saying that it seems to be logical that it is a good practice of SEO, i'm maybe completly wrong, but until i see otherwise i'll stick to it.

Each person has his own way to do SEO with his own successes, and his own subjective opinion. It is pointless to take down a whole SEO "school" or theory based on the 20 websites you have seen by yourself which constitute barely 0.00000001% of the web.

FuryKyle said:

Just a little story I felt the need the share with the community seeing the drastic changes Google are making in the SEO industry.

I started to try out public blog networks last year when a few people recommended them. I decided to try it, no harm trying right?
I signed up for 4 of the most recommended networks - UAW, BMR, ALN and AR.

Tried and tested each one of them thoroughly and eventually quit BMR and AR as they take too much effort and the ROI is low. I was hardcore doing UAW and ALN, sending out hundreds of submissions each day. Usually a few weeks later, I'd hit page 1 easy, outranking those sites with rented high PR homepage backlinks without even paying a cent (literally). It all worked fine until a few weeks ago when Google started targeting and taking out these blog networks one by one.

Shit just got serious.

It first started with a wave of deindexing on all the networks. About 25% of my links were gone with that single strike alone. ALN alone had around 6000 blogs deindexed. My ranks still held steady, but from that moment on I knew I was on shaky ground. My rankings could drop anytime. I decided to take my chances and continue submissions to these networks.

Well what do you know? A week later the entire BMR network got nuked by Google and ALN is next. Matt Cutts said himself on his Twitter account that they're going to take out ALN (albeit indirectly). Not something someone like him would say unless he meant business. Hundreds of my high quality BMR links gone just like that, and all those posts were expensively outsource mind you. They only accepted unique content.

ALN is going down one way or the other, no matter what they do. ALN 2.0, ALN 3.0, heck ALN 10.0 won't stand a chance against this multi billion dollar giant that can squash it like a little bug. Right now all my rankings have taken a dive. I did diversify and my rankings didn't go down drastically as my sites were of extremely high quality, but every keyword I targeted for has now dropped.

Moral of the story is to either get your own private network and mask it wisely (STAY OUT OF SEOHOSTING) or just avoid these networks completely. They're going all out now, just look at Panda 3.4. Time to completely revise my SEO gameplan. You should too if you've been doing what I did. Change, adapt, evolve.

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Have you looked at SEO trail blaze?

FuryKyle said:

Just a little story I felt the need the share with the community seeing the drastic changes Google are making in the SEO industry.

I started to try out public blog networks last year when a few people recommended them. I decided to try it, no harm trying right?
I signed up for 4 of the most recommended networks - UAW, BMR, ALN and AR.


I was hardcore doing UAW and ALN, sending out hundreds of submissions each day.

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So honestly what did you expect of public network with xxxxxx hard core users like you
Of course it will be done one day

SEO industry is changing yes but not so dramatically like many people think.