Has anyone used Fat Joe as an outsource solution for blog links?
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Hi guys,
I have seen a company on social media a lot recently who offer a guest blog posting service. It seems to be reasonable quality from the reviews and the blurb they give as they at least seem to find you a relevant blogger to match up with, actually write good content with as many reviews as is needed and then post it to just that one page.
I noticed on their site they have claimed that their service is Loved by Moz but I couldn't find any reference to them anywhere on the Moz site.
My question is - has anyone used them and are the links going to be any good for my site?
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Their content is mediocre at best. Lot's of grammar and spelling errors from a supposedly us/uk staff.
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Hey Matthew,
As Keri mentioned below, we have no affiliation or special arrangement with Moz, the logo was intended to reference our post on YouMoz. This has now been rectified, sorry about any confusion caused there!
In regards to whether our services will be good for your site, we assume you are talking about our flagship service, Blogger Outreach.
Put simply, we outreach to genuine websites and make content placements, relevant to your target website. We wrote a post explaining some of the ways you can go about blogger outreach, some of which we use ourselves:
http://fatjoe.co/blogger-outreach-hacks/ - This should give you a good insight on how to find opportunitiesPutting the link building moral debate aside, how effective/safe these links are will depend on your overall strategy. This may be something an SEO agency or consultancy can help you with.
Hope this helps.
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Hey Keri,
The Loved by Moz was an oversight by our web designer and was intended to be a reference to our YouMoz post as you quite rightly mentioned above. Sorry for any inconvenience caused!
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Thank you guys, so glad I put this message up now. I think this is a case to give them a miss, if the Moz loves us claim is bogus then there's no way of knowing what else they claim isn't true.
Thanks for your help, Travis and Keri
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That's probably your queue to run away screaming. Guest blogging for the sake of guest blogging is a very bad idea these days. You might also want to mention that 'Loved by Moz' bit to someone at Moz. They can confirm or deny. Whoops, they just did.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/guest-blogging/
That's not to say all guest blogging is dead per se, but guest blogging for ABC plumbing company on alllandscapersseolinks4all.com is dead.
Here's a semi-fictional scenario:
Internet Guy A walks up to Internet Guy B and says; "Hey, for some reason I don't want to post this on my own deal, but I think your audience would really benefit from my words. What do you say?"
And Internet Guy B says; "Cool bro, much trust. I know you'll behave yourself and be excellent - Wyld Stallyns 4 eva!"
Then Internet Guy B would be vouching for Internet Guy A. Everybody's p-toot is on the line and the honor system, with editorial control on Internet Guy B's part. So long as Internet Guy A or Internet Guy B aren't offering a material incentive for the post and everyone follows the bajillion other rules, some unwritten, everybody is cool.
But what you're talking about seems to be scary and you may want to think twice. Do you really know who you're getting into 'link bed' with? You don't until it happens. In the real world, that takes an inordinate amount of vodka. If you've had one of those nights, you know it isn't pretty.
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Thanks for pointing this out. It appears that a YouMoz post was made a year ago by someone working for Fat Joe, and is referenced at http://fatjoe.co/blogger-outreach/#buzz. To the best of my knowledge, they have no special arrangement with of us any type, and I will have our legal department reach out regarding the use of the logo on the front page.
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