It’s about time we dredge up guest blogging again.  Who remembers when Matt Cutts said that guest blogging was “done” around this time last year?  As we all know by now, that stirred up quite a storm of controversy in the online marketing world. But as we all can figure out,  guest blogging is not dead. …

What Are The Essential Quality Metrics For Evaluating Publishers For Guest Blogging? Read More »

Guest blogging can be a great way to capture links, if done correctly.  Plus, it can mean more content for your website.  But in this industry, and with the whole business of search engines like Google coming down on guest blogging, it never hurts to find other ways to build links for your site. Luckily, …

21 Link Building Ideas That Have Nothing To Do With Guest Posting Read More »

How many things in SEO can you consider simple, as well as great for link building?  I’m sure many of you could list off a number of things, but right now, we are going to focus on guest blogging in terms of link building.  It seemed that guest blogging was one of the last bastions …

The End of Link Building as we Know It Read More »

“With great power, comes great responsibility.”  Isn’t that what Uncle Ben said to Peter Parker in Spiderman?  It seems that holds true in real life too.  When Somebody like Matt Cutts comes out and says “Guest blogging is done,” all the message boards, comments sections and reactions in Youtube videos in the SEO world just …

9 SEO Truths Behind the Zombie Guest Blogging Apocalypse Read More »

By now, we’ve all heard the Matt Cutts statement heard around the SEO world.  “Guest blogging is dead,” he said.  This was a bold statement, even for the likes of Matt Cutts, because it got the SEO community in an uproar the moment he put that statement out there.  But Cutts stood strong so far, …

Authority Is The New Links: Reading Between The Lines Of Matt Cutts’ Guest Post Critique Read More »

By now, every SEO in the business has heard about the hubbub about guest blogging and what Matt Cutts has been saying about it.  Yes, guest blogging, if done wrong, can be viewed as potentially spammy.  But that doesn’t make all guest blogging bad does it?  At this point, Google  has taken matter into their …

Why People Still Guest Blog Read More »

Oh Mr Cutts, you really know how to stir things up, don’t you?  Yesterday, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s webspam, started a bit of an uproar in the SEO community after he claimed that guest blogging for SEO purposes is dead. In  his post, Cutts described how guest blogging went from a great source …

The Reaction To Matt Cutt’s “Guest Blogging Is Dead” Read More »

Guest blogging isn’t getting a break, especially from the likes of Matt Cutts, the head of Google search spam and Google itself.  It seems that quite a few statements have been made about guest blogging over the past year.  It has grown from a simple tactic to a full grown link building tactic.  The problem …

Matt Cutts: “Stick A Fork In It, Guest Blogging Is Done” Read More »

You may think that guest blogging and guest posting is a great way to boost your authority and your overall ranking.  Well, you’d be right, especially if what you’re posting genuinely great content.  Once you’ve gotten your first few links back to your site, it’s very possible to begin slip sliding down the “slope of …

Why Guest Posting and Blogging is a Slippery Slope – Whiteboard Friday Read More »

In the past, we’ve seen columns, blog posts and articles talking about how great guest blogging is for your link building efforts.  But, what we have to realize is that everybody is doing it.  There are articles discussing the best ways that will help you find new guest posting opportunities. But, to Matthew Barby, this approach …

The Power of Authors and Content for Link Building Read More »