So I deleted my Blog Catalog Blog Submissions
Look… I love Blog Catalog but to be frank it’s out ranking me in the major search engines with my articles with my keywords. For the past 6 months I’ve been sucking it up and enjoying the referrals but that’s enough for me. I went and removed all my blogs and their rss feeds from the blog catalog community.
Have a look at this search Image. Click here for search,
This is the cached page screenshot of blog catalog…
Some would say he what the heck it’s a back links anyways and a strong one too. Perhaps you’re correct and maybe my rankings will totally drop without that back link but it’s a rick I’m willing to take. This is from one search result. I was replying to a comment and when I clicked the search term I see this disgusting result.
I’m keeping my groups and profile but that’s it.
I agree. I noted that my posts don’t rank for their keywords and these feed aggregators, instead, rank well. They are first in serp.
So, I think these kind of websites cannot increase my traffic a lot, cannot give value to my content, and, sometimes, they don’t give me a backlink, as they use nofollow attributes or javascript links or they show my blog within an iframe.
Auch, then the blog submission is useless. It does nothing positive, instead it causes pain to you.
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Those keywords were a good choice, I wouldn’t of tried them. I will try some now though.
Do you forward traffic from the domain or anything?
Interesting read.
Thanks
Hmm why so?
Are the blogcatalog links nofollow?
@Daniele They will increase your traffic if the searching is going to kep clicking which they never do! You’re better off trying to rank higher yourself!
@Freebies I guess it depends what your goals are with your blog. For me that’s what happened. They started taking my traffic.
@Ben Pei Read the article again?
@Vitaly Yes Blog Catalog is a NO Follow Community!
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Hi, I am writing from Italy. We have the same issue you are talking about. It’s my opinion that maybe this kind of feed aggregator work good if you are a big one. But until that time it’s better to avoid it. They take traffic/keyword and you nothing. Silvy
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I proved my point.
If you look at that image blogcatalog is first in Google!
If you do that search it’s me that’s first in Google and it was like that maybe 7 days after deleting my content.
I have groups there but that’s it!
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Oho, this was I think some kind of solution. Many people who have gowned now, they do not like to be at blogcatalog. I am not much serious about BC, only replying to coming reactions, that’s good.
I’ll submit to aggregators who do follow, but giving your title to one who uses nofollow is suicide. There’s no way you get the traffic to justify having to compete for your own title. Aggregators get plenty of pageviews from AGGREGATING, i.e. having disparate content on a single page. They don’t need to get the keyword for MY title too.
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This seems great..!!
I still believe that blog catalogs are best way to get traffic…
anyway your blog is at top position for “do follow blog catalogs”
Thanks !!
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