Praise Cthulhu: SPAMMY GUEST BLOGGING IS DEAD!!!!
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That’s it! Yay! No more trying to talk avaricious, lazy people into creating original content. Now we can just tell them to give up completely and go away!
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Except for an occasional reblog from NOAA or the state of Washington I write all my own stuff, as painful as writing for me can be at times
So pardon my ignorance and being too lazy to Google some stuff – does this mean the copy and paste stuff from various sites where the site says “use our stuff as long as you link back” will get hammered?
I have people from time to time offer to write an article for me – subject just happens to be their business and they want a link back to the business. I assume they offer the same crap to other web sites – will that stuff get hammered also? I just delete their email or whatever.
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Yes, that is EXACTLY what it means. It also means that those marketing types who go around trying to get guest blogging spots to “increase exposure” and really to link back to their own sites from as many sites as possible, are going to eat dirt. Crash! Burn!
That’s the end of that branch of the spamosphere.
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Way cool – I like the bias to be in favor of original content – Google did some changes maybe 1.5 to 2 years back – not a clue what it was (guess I should pay more attention to that stuff) – and my search engine traffic went up –
maybe the 1,000 or so crawl errors drifting into oblivion after my move might have helped also – my old directory structure did not match here at all – and there was no way into the robots.txt file to tell search engines that the old directories did not exist anymore –
Getting rid of crap is good – thanks much for the update
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Putting my thinking cap on here. Have to wonder how this will affect CC licenses where BY (attribution) required by the author/photographer/artist means a link back to the original site. Technically this is (or should be) the same material (text/photo/artwork) posted in one place and then linked back to its source.
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I think media is a different category altogether, though. But possibly not; those spam infographic farms are annoying too.
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Not necessarily only media, rain. CC licenses also cover text (like WPcom’s ToS page)
Also have to wonder where reblogs fit in this mix…
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Hooray! I’m so sick and tired of receiving a barrage of emails every day asking to be a guest author on my blog. The game players have not even read my guest post policies. The whole SEO game playing aspects of the acquisition of thousands of followers, as well as, the multiple spammy scammy guest post SEO gambit makes me puke.
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Not necessarily only media, rain. CC licenses also cover text (like WPcom’s ToS page)
Also have to wonder where reblogs fit in this mix…I started thinking about this too and decided to tag this thread for a Staff response.
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Thanks guys. As it turns out, folks here have already discussed Matt Cutts’ post (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/guest-blogging/). How these changes may affect bloggers on WordPress.com, if at all, remains to be seen.
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@jackiedana- Wait and see is not my favorite pastime, but OK, then, back to the business of blogging. :)
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