Massive Footprint
Inside One Blog Network
That Can
Jeopardize All Your Backlinks in this Network
Let’s start with HOW I found this footprint. In Free Traffic System we love checking what out competitors do on this market – it is always great, because gives you ideas and inspiration to evolve your own service.
So, recently I was checking one of our competitors – and noticed something nasty. Really nasty. A footprint that within a few seconds gave me their network of blogs “on the plate”.
How Exactly are They
Leaving this Footprint?
Whenever you add your blog to this network – they send you a test post. When I saw this – I could not believe my eyes, because that was so “on the surface”. The text of this test post is a footprint. Large, juicy and obvious footprint.
I simply picked a part of the text from this test blog post, pasted this text into Google, did a search – and in a few seconds I had all their blogs disclosed.
It is so easy. Whenever Google needs to crack their network of blogs, it will take them a few seconds. The same way I did it.
Does It Mean I am Doomed
If I Have Built Backlinks from this Network?
Let’s not be pessimistic. I do not think that at the moment this blog network has grown to such a size that they have become a problem for Google.
Maybe Google will decide to check them in a day, maybe in a month, maybe in a year – who knows?! But whenever Google decides to do a check, they will instantly get the list of the blogs, because this network has left a colossal footprint on all their blogs.
And if this happens, then this is a big danger for all your backlinks – in case you have been using this network of our competitors.
Ok, Why Telling this to Us?!
Why Not Letting them Die?
They are Your Competitor!
Surely, they are our competitors. And surely I could send the list with their blogs to Google and say “eat ‘em”. That would be immoral, but that would be so … practical. Charming word and elegant excuse for filthy actions.
But if you jump over this “competitor vs competitor” game, then it becomes obvious that if one big network is killed like this – it will create hundreds of angry people who will be telling stuff like:
“Backlinks from inside blog posts are dead!”
“Google cracks these backlinks in 1 second!”
“This will kill my site!”
“Backlinks from blogs are BS!”
“My site was deindexed because I was using …”
So, these people will be telling junk about OUR MARKET – the market of blog submissions. They will be compromising the very idea of these backlinks. And I do not want that. Because backlinks from blog posts are fantastic in terms of SEO!
That is why, I have sent a message to the owners of that network (our competitors) telling about this problem, and I think they will address this issue.
IMPORTANT UPDATE
ISSUE TO BE FIXED SHORTLY…
I got a very quick reply from this network – and the quickness of this reply is already a nice proof that they addresses this issue very seriously.
So, very shortly this footprint will be removed and no nightmares will be haunting you at night.
Thanks everybody for helping to make this post a nexus for discussion.
P.S. Do You Have this Problem in
Free Traffic System?
Surely no. Footprints were one of our biggest concerns that we addressed very seriously BEFORE Free Traffic System was created and launched.
There are several major precautions we took to prevent Google from cracking our network of blogs:
We DO NOT send any test messages to the blogs.
We DO NOT send any code, that in any way can tell Google that your blog is added to Free Traffic System – no plugins, no HTML, nothing.
We even DO NOT report the URLs of the blogs in the Stats area, though some of our users are not happy about it.
For those who do not understand why we do not report the URLs of the blogs in Stats – this is simple – I can personally crack 80-90% of the blogs in any network that is FAIRLY and OPENLY reporting the URLs of the blogs. I can do massive submissions of articles in all major categories and with the help of the reports with URLs. That is why all major services on this market (with rare exceptions) don’t report the URLs of the blogs in the Stats of submissions – because this is another backdoor for cracking the network of blogs.
For Free Traffic System your SEO safety is very important. We’d better answer “inconvenient” questions from some of the users who require the URLs of the publications (and explain them how giving this info can kill this whole concept and their backlinks) rather then venturing the security and integrity of this beautiful SEO concept.
P.S. I will be deleting any mentionings of this system in the blog comments, because I do not want this blog post and its conversation to turn into blatant complaints about this network.