20th January, 2014, breaking news spread like a fire in SEO industry. It was “Guest Blogging Is Done” said by Matt Cutts (Head of Google’s webspam team) through his blog post. It was an alert signal for guest bloggers and blogging industry. Even most of the guest bloggers took it casually as they had earlier when Matt put his view on guest blogging in 2012 and in 2013. There was debate between High quality guest posts vs. low quality guest posts in recent years. Matt again and again informed us that High quality guest posts will win the race.
On 19 Mar 2014, Matt’s tweet regarding taking action on a large guest blog network was a call to action. Later, Ann Smarty of MyBlogGuest confirmed that it was her guest blog network. Since then, it is rumor in SEO world that “Guest Blogging Is Done”. To conform, it is done or down you must read Matt’s added views and clarification about his blog post. So, final Conclusion is guest blogging is down but not done . Many prominent bloggers are still accepting quality guest posts and share on their blog like problogger.net.