Question

What's your take on this?  
https://www.searchenginejournal.com...SJrp8

Answer 1

There's an easy way around this. Just ask the site owner to post it as their main author name, and leave the "guest post" wording off the article. There's no way in hell Google can determine a piece of content is a guest post unless there's some verbiage on the actual page saying "This is a guest post from John Doe". Site owners need to remove the big menu links that say "Write For Us", cause they're gonna get wacked by Google even if they've never accepted a guest post.  

Comments

Sure there is, have no quality control guidelines in place to make sure people are not posting duplicate content across all their guest post opportunities. Then have that persons site come under a manual review. Reviews then penalizes all the people linking to that site with the same article. Easy peasy

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@bowyer673 That's what I'm sayin. If the guest post site owners would be smart about it, there wouldn't be any easy way for Google to crack down on them.  

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Right, but of course it can't be a site owners fault, it has to be a Google "crackdown"

Answer 2

I suspect this has been happening for a long time, minus the warning part, of course.  

Answer 3

Great news for the fair-play ones, right?  

Answer 4

They have been doing this for years

Answer 5

I suspect Israel made his post in here and that hack Roger Monti read it and decided it was worthy for the National Enquirer of SEO.  

Answer 6

At least Monti could have given his source named credit in his article, but that wouldn't be his style would it.  

Answer 7

I can't speak for Roger but I don't like to name people who inspire me to write something because about half of them tend to get offended and start slamming me for some imagined offense. There is one person currently whom I don't mind slamming openly because he's an idiot who has built a reputation on overinflating trivial information, but in general I try to keep people's names out of discussions. I suspect Roger is just doing the same.  

Answer 8

Google doesn't like link building period. They have always said this and made it obvious. That being said, guest blog posting is still the least risky method of link building

Answer 9

I have never use them

Answer 10

Although the buzz (for the past 8 or 9 years) has been about "guest posting" the issue is unnatural outbound links. Guest posting is a standard feature of periodical publication, and has been so for centuries. And G's machines don't know he difference. "Rather, the Op-Ed page is where individuals with no institutional connection to The Times can voice their opinions (opinions, by the way, that often disagree with the paper’s editorial stance). In addition to our guest contributors, we have several Op-Ed page columnists. Some are based in Los Angeles; some are not. Some, such as Patt Morrison, have a long-standing connection to The Times, others do not (although they write their columns for us). "  
https://www.latimes.com/oe-howtosub....html

Answer 11

@latoshalatouche is this true

Comments

@lanark168 don't really buy it