What's Going On?

[seankaye]

Would it be possible to get a coherent update of what is happening here?

The BU product was sold as a place where there were hundreds of aged domains, now there are 35 in house blogs with only 5 having PR and 7 older than 1 year of age. So it is clearly not what was described originally.

Many of the in-house blogs now have a banner with the domain name being offered for sale.

There are people who openly promoted BU last year when I signed up actively telling me to get out of here.

I'm not someone to listen to crazy talk, but some idea on the direction of BU would be nice. Is it going the way of AMA where there will only be user submitted blogs with an option for people to pay to submit content?

What's going on?

[mikedeering]

Hi Sean,

"It is not the end of blogs or blogging or Wordpress like some are saying"

Please read the following post by Mike Liebner:

http://www.bloggingunderground.com/bu/g ... -rollouts/

[admin]

If you are a BU member you can login and see exactly what is going on at the what's new page. I have been posting updates there and here in the forum regularly.

There are 268 blogs in the BPU that are indexed and available for posting articles.

http://www.bloggingunderground.com/bu/g ... -rollouts/

[seankaye]

I don't want to appear argumentative or be a giant pain in the ass, but I read that post and it doesn't answer my question.

When this situation began with the de-indexings, the first comments on this network were, "Don't worry, won't happen here."

Then it happened here.

From what I can see, very few, if any of the user submitted blogs appear to have been affected, certainly not on the scale that the in-house blogs were hit. That must be some kind of algorithm update to be that specific.

Or, like other networks, SEO Nitro, BMR and ALN this network was infiltrated directly by Google and the in-house blogs de-indexed manually. Which frankly seems more likely.

I suppose, that's all rather moot now.

However, my questions weren't answered in that post linked in anyway.

I am not interested in opinions on what Google may or may not be doing - I have my own research and opinions, what I want to know is, what is happening with this service. What is the plan? Is there a plan? BU was promoted as a network of aged domains - specifically it was promoted that PageRank was less important than age and that context links from aged domains were of high value.

Now the in-house network frankly has less than a half dozen domains with any age at all.

If there's no plan, no problem, just say so. But some kind concrete idea of what's happening would be helpful.

Thanks.

[admin]

"what is happening with this service. What is the plan?"

I've been pretty clear. We're open for buisness serving members with lots of blogs to post articles in.

We've already made improvements and more are coming.

BU members are still posting and we're making improvements to improve security.

The plan is to continue offering and improving a product that gives benefits to members.

Right now we have over 278 blogs in the network that are indexed. Blogging Underground still offers tremendous value for those who want to post relevant article pages in blogs indexed by Google.

If you look on the home page of BU you will always see a real time count of how many blogs are in the BPU

You should really be using SUPPORT if you need help:

http://www.bloggingunderground.com/support

I'm not denying some blogs that were here are now gone - but we still have a lot of them for members to post articles in.

From the day we started the network was dynamic has always changed and evolved with blogs coming and going and that will be the same.

I still have new members joining every day and I still hear from members who are telling me their sites are moving up in rankings and asking me for advice.

If blogs are indexed by Google you will get link benefits.
When the latest Panda Quality rollout first happened it hit elsewhere and it was NOT happening here.

Now in retrospect I realize they wiped out alledged "low quality sites" with the new panda quality algos and systems in several stages.

I'm sorry it happened but I didn't do this to you. Google did.

I thought our blogs had value - but I can now see what they want. I don't like it - but I have no choice than to live with it.

It's still workable. There is nothing wrong with links in blogs that Google has indexed.

Before it happened I believed that the sites we included in the blog network were good quality - so I was not worried when it hit the other guys - because many of them were getting lots of rankings and had lots of pages indexed so I thought we had been doing the right things.

Up until then we were fine but then CHANGES were made at Google.

This kind of stuff happens.

I've been doing this for 15 years now - so I do not get as upset or worry as much because I almost expect this kind of thing to happen.

After we had sites deindexed - I immediately started posting what was going on and didn't hide anything.

The REAL PROBLEM was all the misinformation that was being passed around. There were no real statements by Google. All of the stuff is gossip and a lot of it was not based on fact.

What I personally see is based on fact.

The sites that were deindexed had one thing in common - they were low quality according to what Google is NOW expecting.

It was a change and the plan is to adapt.

No more using articles from ezinearticles.com

No more plain ugly home pages with no value for the end user other than links to content.

We want to learn what Google wants and do our best to make sure we are giving it to them so we can get more sites up and running that they like and keep in the index.

I am very aware of what I have been offering with a Blogging Underground membersghip as we've been doing this for many years now.

The membership still has a LOT of value.

It was always a great deal to begin with. It still is a great deal.

I'm not worried that the product is bad.

When I started BU I had FAR LESS than 278 blogs.