The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO
This is just one of the worst things I've ever read on Cutt's blog.  Because they can't really distinguish good guest posting from 'passable' guest posting, it's all done?<p>Got news for you: guest blogging is relevant for many more reasons than Google.  In fact, that's probably one of the least important reasons to guest post or guest blog these days.  Referral traffic that is more qualified than organic search, audience building, reaching new channels that organic search cannot quite tap, and many more non-SEO oriented reasons are why guest blogging will never really die out in the way that other types of linkbuilding have died out.<p>You have to love the world's biggest scraper and source of 'duplicate content' (all the scraped info from weather, wikipedia, etc in their sidebar these days) making up the rules of what is and isn't allowed.  Extremely hypocritical, but the good news is that relying on Google never was necessary, and is becoming less and less so as time goes on.