{"id":39959,"date":"2014-01-21T21:17:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T15:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=39959"},"modified":"2023-01-24T21:48:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:18:36","slug":"guest-blogging-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2014\/01\/guest-blogging-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Declares End of Guest Blogging for SEO!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has finally declared guest blogging is over and is another bad link-building practice. We had warned guest blogging will be penalized<\/a> and the challenges for guest blogging<\/a>.\u00a0Google has been warning and trying to get some order in the guest blogging practice\u00a0with subtle\u00a0hints and warnings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But guest blogging has come a long way from being a respected practice by good writers to get exposure on top blogs – to being a whole business of link building with dedicated guest writing services and getting unwary top blogs at the bad end of Google penalties.<\/p>\n

So what happened now…<\/p>\n

Google Ends Guest Blogging<\/h2>\n

Google Engineer Matt Cutts has been warning for a long time, but this time he made it blunt and clear<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t recommend accepting a guest blog post unless you are willing to vouch for someone personally or know them well. Likewise, I wouldn\u2019t recommend relying on guest posting, guest blogging sites, or guest blogging SEO as a linkbuilding strategy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also warns that if you continue accepting guest posts for free-content building purposes with disregard to kind of links you give out – these are his instructions to the Google webspam team.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d expect Google\u2019s webspam team to take a pretty dim view of guest blogging going forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n