Google's Matt Cutts: We've Penalized A Guest Blogging Network

Google's Matt Cutts: We've Penalized A Guest Blogging Network

Google's Matt Cutts announced on Twitter at 2:13am EST that Google has taken action on a "large guest blog network." This time, Matt Cutts did not specifically say which network they targeted.
Matt links to his post on his personal blog named The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO. In January, Matt warned that guest blogging for SEO is dead, which caused a major stir in the community.
Since then, many said guest blogging has continued to work and lead to great rankings.
However, as you can see, today, Matt and Google went after a larger guest blogging network, which may result in lost rankings, penalties and unnatural link notifications. I have to assume that Google will continue to go after these networks.
What if you just do occasional guest blogging? You should be fine but again, with the caveat that it is not done for SEO Purposes. Personally, I hate guest blogging but I have the luxury at writing at two sites that have a large audience already.

Google's Matt Cutts: We Can Take Action On Sites Benefiting From Guest Post Networks

Yesterday, Google's Matt Cutts announced they've penalized a large guest blog network but never said which one. The search community believes it is http://bestseoservicesinagra.blogspot.in that got hit and the owner, a respected member of the SEO industry, Ann Smarty confirmed they indeed get a manual action in Webmaster Tools and was penalized.

But Ann did not believe that the publishers that participated in the network would get hit as well.