99% Of Guest Bloggers Today Can’t Write

There’s been quiet alot of talk going on lately about guest blogging and what’s to come of it. Google made a clear stance against the current state of guest blogging; and the recent hits on both MyBlogGuest, and more recently PostJoint are evidence of that. All this has created quiet the stir amongst the SEO community with plenty of people advocating both for and against these penalties; and so I wanted to share my own opinion and experiences with guest blogging and explain why I completely agree with Google on this.

Firstly its important to note that while I have never utilized MyBlogGuest for the sake of sharing my own articles on it; I have had quiet a few guest bloggers submit articles for me to post on Rapid Purple – and over the past couple of years you have probably noticed them on here as they often came attached with an author bio at the bottom. If you’re wondering why there have only been a small handful of guest posts on here – this will explain it.

99% of guest bloggers today can’t write. For many of them English is far from their first language and unfortunately that becomes evident extremely quickly as you begin to read through their post. There’s spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, run-on sentences, and things that just don’t make any sense at all. Often is the case that I would spend more time re-writing someones article than if I had simply written it myself from the start.  Let’s take an example from a guest blog post that was submitted to me back in 2013:

And finally, another reason, most people don’t get ad click is they have too many ad units. Make sure there are not more than 2 unit in each page. Google recommends not having more than 3 each page. But just to be in the safe side, do not, have more than 2 units.

English professors everywhere are pulling their hair out  their remaining hair out. Bing has made it pretty clear that proper grammar is important in terms of how well your website will rank; however proper grammar and well written posts go well beyond simple search engine rankings.

Let’s go back to the example above and let’s pretend this was within the first paragraph you read. Do you feel like continuing to read through that post? No? Me neither. Now this single guest post has not only hurt your rankings; but it’s also hurt your readership count.

I don’t want to seem like this is all based on simply 1 submitted post – so let’s go find another example – this time by simply browsing MyGuestBlog’s current article directory.

The problem with your current source of traffic is that Google algorithms can easily change and put you right at the very bottom of the results pages. It’s for that reason why you have to create safety net for your site, and that’s through diversifying your traffic sources.

To me the penalties make perfect sense. The majority of the content featured on guest blog networks isn’t written for the sake of creating relevant and exciting new content; it’s written in an attempt to get 2-3 links onto someones website – and I think we can do just fine without those posts.