Did Google Kill Off The Blog Networks?
Hey it's a fair question! Listen in on the forums and discussion threads on SEO and marketing sites and you would think the sky was falling! What's it all mean? That's easy to tell you but harder to really understand.
You see there was just another Google Panda update that resulted in a large number of sites in blog networks getting de-indexed by Google so their pages no longer show up in the organic search engine results. Google says this is to increase the quality of the results returned. I'm not gonna even touch that one!
Well a lot of people relied pretty heavily on them to promote their sites and increase their SEO results. They did so for a very good reason..
Using Blog Networks worked!
Most of the major ones have shut down for the moment, but the fact remains that using Blog Networks for backlinks and traffic generation is a quite effective strategy. In spite of the doomsday pronouncements of the masses, the medium will return...
Actually it already has.
There is a new Blog Network called Blog Syndicator. It is approaching things from quite a different approach than most and looks to me like it will be the norm before long. Check them out here: Blog Syndicator - Blog Network.
It uses your RSS Feed to do what was done on most networks with spun articles. You can also use their services to build your email lists and promote any sort of squeeze pages you might have. Their prices are better than you would have gotten at a network like Build My Rank as well...
Use them to get your posts indexed quickly as well...
