Guest Post Label Devalue Links?

[TheDude]

My link builders are doing an excellent job of creating well written articles with my links in the body of the text.  However, most of them state it is a guest post at the top or bottom of the post.  I also notice that the sites the articles are on frequently accept guest posts.

1. Does having the label "guest post" devalue the links at all?

2. Does the fact that the sites often allow for guest posts devalue the links?

[EGOL]

1. Does having the label "guest post" devalue the links at all?

Probably not.  Why should it?  Bill Clinton might write a guest post for somebody's blog.

2. Does the fact that the sites often allow for guest posts devalue the links?

Maybe.  If they are accepting guest posts that link to trashy websites in bad neighborhoods, then YES.

[TheDude]

Thanks EGOL!  It's nice to see some old faces from SEOChat. 

Assuming for #2 that the links are to good neighborhoods, would it be a problem that the majority of their content is labeled guest post and linking out to many sites?

[EGOL]

If they are all going to good neighborhoods then I would not worry about it.

I have seen blogs run by professional societies where all of the posts are written by guests. These are professors, business owners and government folks.  Very high quality.

[Olivier_Lambert]

Another factor I think should have an impact in these sites was the % of duplicate posts. Some websites are really restrictive on this point and rarely have this problem, but with other ones, I noticed more than 50% of guest posts appear 30-50 times in SERP's. So for now, I always pick 2-3 posts randomly and do a little check.

Panda clear a lot of these, but not all

[TheDude]

Great tip!