A A Brooke - Profile

“Hmm it is a worrying trend.

We did a post back in August which has a good link to SEO MOz blog about SERP Shrinkage.

Organic Search Results are shrinking!

But 95% ads is a bit alarming! Be good if he could get a screen shot ”

“The good thing is that you're gaining followers at least . Maybe you could build on that and give them info/vids to link to as well. Have them share more when they visit your profile?



Cool its just not that easy to coax them into joining your circles in the beginning I'm thinking. Once you get past that hurdle, its all systems go? ”

“It still works - to a point, with risks.

Article marketing was a great way to build links a while back, but since the invention of spinning and spamming using spinning techniques its something that's been killed - almost.

It can still play a part in the overall mix, and now and then you can get some traction if the articles good - but would you really want to waste a 'good' article in this way when there are much better, stable options for your article?

Plus, with article marketing you run the risk of loosing rankings if all your eggs are in that basket. I remember when the first grisly, polar er I mean panda update came out and it killed lots of well used article directories and stripped links pointing to sites loosing their hard earned ranks.

Even ezine was hit hard to a point where they had to restructure their own site to claw back what they had lost. So will that happen again - probably. Would I rely on article marketing on its own - no.”

“lol don't mind me, I just love debating. It's all part of being a redhead I guess.

The whole technique might have been a gray area yes, but at the same time it became BH. The reason I say this is that in the beginning, when the fad hit, it was a good idea to have a domain that was an EMD to the keyword you used. People created these, and started adding content and building backlinks etc. just like they would with any other site. When the rogue SEO's saw that it actually had a really good effect on the SERP's, they decided to do what we all do. Build sites, create content, start backlinking. The only problem is that they do what they usually do. Laden the site with low quality content, blast links back to their domain, and who knows what else so that their site gains rank and keeps that top spot.

Google saw this and decided to put a stop to it. Just like they did with the meta keywords, blog networks, and everything else that seemed ok to use at the time.
See the pattern? Google gives us the means to rank our sites, gain our own little corner of the web, Rogue SEO's come along and take over, and Google axes it. Taking other innocent sites with them in the process. The authority of an EMD has been declining a lot over the last 2 or so years. That alone shows that the EMD update was already on its way out. With the decline of the EMD yearly, it showed that Google was giving less and less value to those domains, because of the way it was being abused (one can only guess ).”