Blogger.com is a web 2.0 blogging platform that is provided by Google for free to users.
When a site is published on the platform, it is hosted on a subdomain of blogspot.com.
Because of the easy accessibility of this platform, the software has been created in several forms to automate the creation of these sites and use them for link building.
Over the years, Google has been looking at the value of the sites placed on their system and cleaning up the platform.
Simultaneously, they have been implementing code changes to combat link builders using the sites for spam link creation.
There have even been theories in the SEO community that the site is actually a detriment to any website that they link directly to and should be disavowed.
In this test, we check if it still provides a boost.
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Every backlink, a direct link, a exert, a full syndication, has led to a rankings drop to the target page, everyone.
The last use that people are using blogger blogs is, as a tier 1, the tier linking system, tier 1 is your good ones.
Then you use tier 2, 3 and 4 or whatever you want, I know some people who go to tier 10.
Don't ask me why, but they go to tier 10, makes no sense to me but they did and so I want to see if the blogger blog is actually useful as a tier 1.
Can I use that to send less than, I want to necessarily say junk, but like your tools. And if you know how to use tools right now and stuff, can you send that stuff too.
10 pages, 2000 word each page, 10,000 keyword density blogspot test page, 2000 words with keyword density exact match anchor text sent to the test page, and then use those services indexing.
My link building method, I am ranking some stupid R keywords using the exact same link building method that I did here, but I'm using a different tier 1.
No, I'm not going to teach it to you, not ever because it makes me a lot of money, now you're not getting it. But just know that you can do that with some tier link building.
And it ranks well and I expected this to work.
Scrolling through, you can obviously see that it absolutely did not and the tier link building actually dropped the ranking of the page significantly.
Again, I'm using the same method using Dori's PBNs. There my tier 1s, and a bunch of other that works in sites and I always get a ranking boost.
Not like 10 15 position ranking boost like not in the top 100 to the top 30 is ranking boost.
That's how good my tier system is for right now.
Instead of penalizing blogspot, they just said, Hey, you link to it with the blogspot, you're going to get this. There are some tests that I think kind of need to be done here.
One is, if I build blogspots and it reduces the links, what happens if my competition builds blogspots to me? Is that gonna hurt my website?
And if it does, across the test that I'm gonna do, probably going to give you a disavow file for the entire blogspot domain. Just save yourself the drama.
We'll just cannot leave it until we re examine the test every once in a while and see what happens.
Most of the link building tools that I know of right now I've removed blogspot completely, but I know some other ones that are transitioning over to that, still a kind of buyer beware, be cautious with what you're doing.
They've essentially made a really good negative SEO platform. If I do my link building process, and I have my targets, and I'm number 9, and I want to get up to number 1, I need to build a blogspot link to each one of these pages and build some tier 1s. And I can knock them down the will see that happens.
Dori: Wow, I'm still just really amazed wow.
Clint: Yeah, maybe like where John Mueller and them say, we can find is web 2.0 and we disavow it. Maybe this is what he meant? They did it with blogspot. And the implication could be, if I do it with blogspot, can I do it with wordpress.com? So wordpress.com is the next set of site that we're going to look at, see if they did it. I'm not so sure that they could do it as effectively as they did it here.
Dori: Martin had a question using our my PBNs and disavowing the blogspots from our website.
If you're linking the PBNs to the blog spots and let's remove those links going out to blogspot.
Clint: The links going into, as you can see, some of my links you can see in there, Google's AWSS and some of those you can see, the links going into there are not getting hurt.
However, even if you had good links, like Dori's PBNs, and you're linking into a blogspot, you're still hurting your site more.
If I continue this, I bet you I could drop this thing right off the map. But I just stopped link building. And I did the same link building campaign, but just not as extensively because I'm lazy if I kept going, I could probably drop this right off the map and why do that with pbn links? Why waste the credits?
In short, if you are linking to you using Dori's network, and linking to blogspots, stop. And if you have the reports, and you know exactly which ones you did it to you, I would send those into support and get them to just delete those posts for you.
Dori: Yeah, even if they don't have, you know, we can find out which sites went, which PBNs linked to the blogspot. Let's do a site wide audit through that.
Clint: Yep, here's what I asked. You guys all know this now, tell your friends. That's totally fine. But please don't go out, blast it on Facebook and everything.
I did the Google Sites thing, and I showed that and how the Google Drive networks were bad. And everyone was, like, take it personally, oh, he's attacking our business, he's destroying me. And they were kicking me out of masterminds and everything else, just because I told the truth.
Be careful with who you share this information wit
Nope, actually, my initial recommendation was if you're not in trouble, don't even bother with disavow. And that's for the 95% of people that just either don't want or don't have the time to go through their list manually.
Try to use a tool like link research tools or cognitive adjust majestic sem rush or whatever, and let those toxic declarations fly. And what usually what happens is that you'll just do it and then you'll lose your rankings. And then you'll wonder, all disavow doesn't work. That's like the number one argument, I disavow links and all my rankings drop. Well, to be frank, no shit, that's what gonna happen because you're not taking your time and doing it right.
You're actually disavowing the links that are ranking for you. If you're posting PBNs, and you got to do a disavow file, then you definitely got to go through your link profile before you submit the disavow and make sure that you haven't hit any of those PBNs.
Now, that's how you save you protect your PBNs.
There is something to be said for doing a disavow file and teaching the algorithm because essentially is the algorithm looking at it at people, that you are actually paying attention to your link profile and Google has not outright said it.
But they implied that if you have a disavow file in place, it indicates to them to the algorithm that you're actually taking care of your link profiles.
You're less likely to receive negative impacts from, you know, 1Cs and 2Cs, or a sudden burst of blog comments and that kind of stuff. The algorithm is less sensitive to those things for your website, because you have a disavow file and you're like, look Google, I'm taking care of my thing.
I've actually started the practice of once a quarter just creating a disavow file and adding, just junk.
And as I do, the web shows, and I, my websites just collect junk, because people are a holes. And that's just kind of what they do right?
It helps because I just keep track of it, and this do the disavow file and then essentially creating trust when I intentionally said junk to cover up, PBNs that I'm getting.
Dori: Yeah, part of the application process to get into SEONitro is like you've never used the disavow. And you'll never will, that's a tough one.
If you have sites from blogspot, I would say go ahead, or I mean, I don't know. Are you saying to people to disavow from blogspot?
Clint: Right now, if you bought a whole bunch, or you created them with software, and you don't have access to the accounts anymore, I would just disavow the entire domain.
If you have access to all those, just go into your account your blogspot account and delete all those sites.
That's the fastest way, if you disavow the site then I might have something to be said, enough disavowing your site, an accident is going to happen.
But I don't think if you know, 10 and 15, I don't think that number is gonna get a trigger. I mean, like, it's probably got to be 1000s and just be smart about it.
In SEONitro, most good providers give you the list of the links you got, and you paid money for them. So hopefully, you're keeping those lists.
I keep those lists and I bug Dori about those lists every day.
You should be keeping those lists and then when you actually go through the process of manually reviewing your link profile, you will know eventually the pattern of how your PBN content looks and the feel of it, and you'll just know that too.
Like if you don't even want to touch it, you don't want to deal with it and you got a small one.
Reach out to me and putting on your link profiles depending on how much you get charged, and I'll build your disavow file for you.
Dori: Yeah, do that. And we typically, if somebody who just started up with SEONitro and I don't know them, we don't automatically show them the links, they have to request that.
Anybody in here of course, who's spending the time listening to us, obviously, your request will be granted. It's just usually after a month or two. I'm like, okay, they're not looking to out the network.
Clint: Okay, let's see. Yeah, just the blogspot itself won't jeopardize network. She's just being really cautious that if you create disavow files, don't go in there and add a whole bunch of PBN because then I have to call you more. You're not gonna hurt. Her network and by doing it, but if all of our users went in there and did it that, then that would be an issue.
But if one person does it on accident, it's fine. But just please don't be lazy. Especially when you're building a disavow file.