How to Survive the Guest Blogging Penalty?

I am quite sure many of my readers are aware about the guest blogging stuff which is going on in the world of webmasters these days. As I posted about Google penalizes MyBlogGuest.com – is guest blogging dead now, a few days back, my blog readers are much aware of the thing that Google is seriously taking guest blogging for SEO purposes as the worst thing.

The moment Google penalized myblogguest.com I realized that webmasters are once again too active about removing the links from other websites, especially if it was in a guest blog.

How can my website survive this guest blogging penalty? Well, I am calling this as Guest Blogging penalty as through this Google actually penalizing sites dealing with guest blogging, but for link building purposes, not for building brand.

Those who were involved in guest blogging, are must be thinking about this question.

To be very frank, I received around five mails just after this incident, requesting to remove the links from my blog. Well, to be very frank, I was also associated with myblogguest.com and published a few good guest posts on my website techacid.com

Well, the writing was quite clear on the wall, as a few months back Matt Cutts, the head of the Google’s web spam team, has announced that guest blogging for the purpose of SEO is dead; precisely it was about guest blogging for the purpose of link building.

Thus webmasters were already aware that something big of this sort will definitely going to happen soon, and it happened in the form of the penalization of myblogguest.com and threatening those sites as well which used them for guest blogging purpose. In fact Google did penalized a few more sites which used myblogguest.com as a platform to either publish guest blogs or submit guest blogs.

To be very frank as I was writing my first book on guest blogging actually got delayed because of all this, so that I thought I should also re-write things depending on current scenario. Thus the release of my first book is getting delayed, but no need to worry about, just follow my twitter handle to remain updated about its progress.

Here are a few ways through which you can protect your website from this guest blogging penalty:

If you are considering that you published some poor quality guest blogs on your website, better is to make them nofollow. You can either remove the post from your website as well, but then it is of no point as the guest blog was definitely providing some value to your website or blog. So instead of removing the blog, I would suggest you to make the links as nofollow.

You can also make the post as noindex and nofollow, which can hide the links from Google.

On the other hand if you are still planning to do guest blogging, I am not going anyone to stop doing so, you can also do same. Here are a few things which you need to take care while doing so:

For guest blogging purpose what I will suggest is to write the best blog post of yours, which can give value additions to someone’s blog.

You can use nofollow links in your blog post, as you simply want to focus on getting visitors from a site, not about the SEO values.

My idea about using authority links is instead of sharing your direct link in a guest blog, why don’t you share your Google+ profile. People will definitely visit it and then will come to know about your website from there.

Thus share the links to your G+ profile, or FB page or your twitter handle, which will not harm your guest blog and return some values as well.

You can also ask webmasters to please remove links from their blog; instead you can ask them to add a link to your G+ profile page.

But believe me this is one of the most difficult task, as contacting webmasters is easy, but getting responses from them is really tough, especially when you are asking them to remove a link. Just wait for my nest blog on how to get good results from link removal mails.

Now as I said that authority links in a quality guest blog is what matters now, but then you also need to think about the place where you are going to host it. Choose authority websites only for this purpose.

A guest blog on a good high quality blog will give you more values than having 5-10 blog posts on low quality websites. I know getting chance to publish on high quality blogs is really less, but then if you really want to do guest blogging then utilize them for maximum returns.

Well, using social media for the purpose of guest blogging is a fairly new concept. Instead of sharing your blogs on other’s website, do publish them on your own website, and give a link to those sites. Then with the help of social media sites like FB, Twitter, G+, etc. you can easily contact them and do let them know about it.

I am sure if you have made it fine, they will definitely like it and share on their own social media profile.

With this point I also want to focus on connecting with those people whose opinion really matters.

I guess with these steps you might not be able to face guest blogging penalties ever, and then to further make you stronger about guest blogging concept, you just need to wait for the release of my book on the same.

As I said that instead of going for random guest posts, I would suggest you all to be selective about choosing hosts for your guest blogs. Hope these points are useful for you. If so, then please don’t hesitate in sharing your opinion or comments about it. I will be eagerly waiting to hear your thought on this topic.