{"id":397,"date":"2014-08-14T06:18:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T06:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2025-02-11T06:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T06:09:19","slug":"google-webmaster-guidelines-update-low-quality-guest-blog-post-a-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/google-webmaster-guidelines-update-low-quality-guest-blog-post-a-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Webmaster Guidelines update \u201cLow Quality Guest Blog Post\u201d a spam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"last-updated-date\">Recently updated: February 11th, 2025<\/p><p>Google has considered low quality guest blogging as \u201clittle or no original content\u201d. Recently, Google has updated their webmaster guidelines, particularly in the little or scraped content, adding on \u201clow-quality guest blog posts as a great example of \u201cscraped content\u201d. Brian Ussery first spotted, how Google has been struggling with the use of guest blogging and posting around link building. Particularly, when Google\u2019s head of search spam explicitly explain that the guest blogging is done for SEO purpose, since then, Google has castigated many guest blog networks and continues setting their own targets emphasizing on low-quality guest blogging that aspires at manipulating their search results.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-406\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/little4.jpg\" alt=\"little\" width=\"572\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/little4.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/little4-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guidelines under magnifying glass<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In previous guidelines, Google has some guidelines that don\u2019t add substantial value to the users have been changed in order to improve the site\u2019s ranking in Google search results by scraping out the cookie cutter pages and contents from the site. Google make sure that the site is full of rich information that adds substantial value to the users, including relevant keywords, aptly used, that clear the subject matter of the content. Companies providing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/seo-services.php\"><strong data-start=\"1402\" data-end=\"1418\">SEO services<\/strong><\/a> must adhere to these guidelines to maintain compliance. Google take action against those domains that try hard to rank more highly by presenting scraped or other cookie-cutter pages, including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Autogenerated content<\/li>\n<li>Doorway pages<\/li>\n<li>Scraped content, and<\/li>\n<li>Thin affiliate sites<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Have a look on the changes that have been made by Google lately. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are many SEOs that have been using scraped content and sharing the contents that have taken from other sources on the site. Google will take action against those domains that has high ranking due to scraped or other cookie-cutter pages.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Autogenerated content,<\/li>\n<li>Doorway pages,<\/li>\n<li>Content from other sources, for instance, Scraped content or low-quality guest blog post.<\/li>\n<li>Thin affiliate sites<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Businesses offering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/seo-packages.php\"><strong data-start=\"2170\" data-end=\"2186\">SEO packages<\/strong><\/a> should take extra precautions to ensure their strategies align with Google&#8217;s quality standards. Moving forward, Google will take action against the content that will be taken from other sources, for instance, <strong>scraped content or low-quality guest blog posts. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google will now considered scraped content or Low-quality guest blog post as a spam. For those who are practicing it, just keep in mind that this may push down your site\u2019s ranking in the search result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently updated: February 11th, 2025Google has considered low quality guest blogging as \u201clittle or no original content\u201d. Recently, Google has updated their webmaster guidelines, particularly in the little or scraped content, adding on \u201clow-quality guest blog posts as a great example of \u201cscraped content\u201d. Brian Ussery first spotted, how Google has been struggling with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5834,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/5834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}