Does Google take action on spammy guest blogging activities?

Currently, guest blogging is the favorite activity of webmasters for link acquisition. Due to its easy nature, lots of spammy activities are going on like article spinning etc. Is Google going to hammer websites for links acquired by guest blogging?
Nandita B, India

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[falcaoruiz]

As in real life, it's not only about building relationships, it's about who you are building relationships with. Just as you get to know a person before letting them into your circle, you should do the same when having guest blogging in mind, get to know the other blog/blogger and see whether or not you'd like to be a part of that circle. It's quite easy and simple, invest time in research before doing it! Makes sense to me and I'm all for Google paying attention to this.

[dionnebaldwin]

Thank you for clearing this up for some of my readers. This is exactly why anyone requesting to guest blog has to apply. I have to be strict about quality articles and sources because my reputation is being considered as well.

[CalebRossInteractiveMarketing]

Thanks Matt. When I first read the question, I assumed you would hammer away at the it considering the overt interest in spamming. So, I appreciate your direct talk about this topic. On this topic, is there a reliable tool out there to determine the "reputation" of a site, similar to PageRank? Or, has PageRank become again a standard?

[garyandrewlacanilao]

Hi Matt: I hope you can read this comment.. How Google handle spun content in this case:

If I wrote a well researched blog (Original content, BTW.), and spammers copy and spun it for them to use in their site.

The question: Will I be affected?? Noting that you can't identify the original from well spun content. Unless, you are still using pigeon update (time-stamp) and it will be automatically indexed (or it was indexed first before the spun).

Thanks,
Gary

[MichaelAulia]

But that's the problem, how do you judge a "quality" article and it's not just an article spinning? (in terms of the blogger/webmaster who accepts the guest posts). Someone might see an article as a wonderful one but Google thinks otherwise (or having a good algorithm, knowing that it's a spinned article)

[TechKerala]

My experince about google .. they have a list of websites always showing in top 20 for popular queries ..

[TonyHayes]

No questions are getting answered from the comments...pity!

[TechKerala]

Google is simple turning to just an article search engine ! .. internet search is all about articles ????

[TyWhalin]

Advice, sick to quality guest blogs post, no article spinning and keep an accurate list of locations you are working with. Setup some Google Alerts as well and pay attention to what the sites you are getting the guest post are doing. This sites could be linking to bad sites. But if choosing wisely you should not have much to worry about.

[spookseo]

Guest blogging is a great way to connect with other webmasters but once again… Spammers had to come in the picture. If things continue as they are (and I mean people spamming guest blogs), chances are this strategy will back fire on those that are using it even to those who are doing it honestly.

[mdwahab]

Thanks for this video
Please, change the background it make me confused.
Thanks

[TechKerala]

everywhere Authority websites are dominatig .. they are good .. but they are not only the quality content providers

[TechKerala]

Still Matt not explaning ..what is quality ?? if i search a pice of info and it would found in a dump unoptimised page ! but google never return those results ... Duckduckgo is better sometimes

[AntoineMussard]

In fact, all link acquistion are quite spammy. Quality will links to link ! ;-)

[jamesweldon]

Bloggers are mostly amateurs so whether they are guest blogging or badly done sites or organized sites they should not be victimized as spammers unless they are using it for anything illegal. they should be treated in the same way professional site users and graded as such..

[ROLANDPICTURES]

Can I put my quality article on your blog Matt? :D

[amazinjosh]

What a stupid question to ask Matt! What were they expecting him to say? "No, we don't give a sh*t here at Google"? Of course Google isn't going to like low quality spammy guest posts and you can spot them a mile off, so I'm sure it's not going to be rocket science for Google to incorporate this into their algo.

[MrTVTL]

You think personalized search might have something to do with that?