Is there such thing as a Spam Guest Post? | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

Hi everyone,

I am new to guest posting.  How do you know if someone's guest post is legitimate or just an ad in disguise?  I got an email from someone today offering to guest post on my blog.  here is the email:

Hi,

This is ****, I went through your site(aftercollegemoney.com)while surfing in Google, am very Much impressed with your site's unique information?s.

I work as a content writer in many financial (especially in student loan) communities and love the Opportunity to guest post for your readers. I would like to give you a Unique article on any student loan related topics. No duplication or copying of the article is done. I assure you that the article will be published only on your site.

The best part is I won?t be charging you a penny, but in return all I need is just one link within the article.

Looking forward for a positive reply.

Looking at the grammar and punctuation of this email, the person doesn't seem like a very good writer.  Also, the last guest post on my site had some scathing comments written about it and I wonder if the post was one big spam trick (Here's the link:  http://aftercollegemoney.com/t…..ave-money/)  How do you bloggers know you are getting a quality guest post and not getting duped? 

My general rule is to only accept articles from bloggers/authors I already know.  I get emails like the one above EVERY day.

There are legitimate offer out there but it's difficult to seed through them all.

I received the same offer. Sounds like exact wording. Deleted.

Lol I think I have been receiving these the past few days from someone as well.  I dont know if it is an actual person, because I replied and they put a somewhat thought ful response together but when I pressed more they all of a sudden stopped responding. 

I cant believe the lengths that spammers go to now a days just to get their garbage out there.

… unless I can turn it into a sponsored post provided it is written informative enough.

I fell for this a couple of times in my early days.  After I got wise to what was actually going on, I removed the links and did a search test to make sure there wasn't duplicate content out there, in which case the entire article would have come down.

I received one of these the other day as well. Just deleted it.

Is there any harm in keeping the link or the article?  I already posted it on my site and it has 2 comments on it.  The comments were critical, but they were comments nonetheless.  Should I keep the article?

Spam! Some of these are also so badly written that I won't consider asking them to write a shopping list.

Maria

After College Money said:

Is there any harm in keeping the link or the article?  I already posted it on my site and it has 2 comments on it.  The comments were critical, but they were comments nonetheless.  Should I keep the article?

If you want to keep the article now that it's been indexed, fine, but I would remove any links or at the very least make then 'nofollow'