He said that he discovered that accepting articles with links at the bottom would get him in difficulty with the Google Penguin update. Frankly, I believed Penguin was largely about external incoming links, not internal links.
Here is what EGOL wrote:
Since Penguin, I am getting a flood of article offers. Most of this content is nonsense. Some of it is "average" quality (which I don't publish). Some can be fabulous, unique, highly desirable. So now I am deciding if I want to accept some of this content, knowing that I could be publishing links to sites that could have past, present or future manipulation.
I have a potential article that I really like and that would be very popular with my visitors. The author's site position #1 in a hard niche and they don't have enough content on their site to hold that position from editorial links (IMO).
I have not seen any articles or discussion about the cautions that a publisher should be following in these days of post-penguin linking.
Do you think EGOL and other publishers need to concern?
There are dozens and dozens of quality sites that consent guest posts and give recognitionto the author by a link to their website.
