are guest post networks getting deindexed?

Depends what you're running, but I'm seeing a pattern: guest post networks that sell links at scale are getting deindexed.

Three networks I tracked dropped from the index this week. They were all selling links across the same set of domains, with similar content themes and anchor text patterns.

Google is clearly targeting these networks. The question is whether this is a temporary crackdown or the new normal.

Which networks?

I'd rather not name them publicly, but they were all in the $50-100 per link range. The domains were real blogs, not PBNs, but the link patterns were unnatural.

This is the same thing that happened to PBNs in 2019. Google got good at detecting unnatural link patterns, so the market shifted to guest posts. Now they're targeting guest posts the same way.

The cycle never ends. Every tactic gets detected eventually.

I stopped buying from networks entirely. Now I do manual outreach to real bloggers and pay them directly. It's more work but the links are natural and they stick.

networks are always the target