When I was setting up my blog I read that its a violation to use the blog for advertising or SEO. If I use BlogMutt, will I be breaking the rules?
No. They are talking about two things that are banned, and to people unfamiliar with this universe those two might seem like what a blog is doing. The two things are paid links, and spam blogs. First, paid links: Regular links are a natural part of the connective tissue of the internet. What search engines — and now the US federal government — don’t like are links that appear to be something helpful, but secretly are part of a paid transaction. You can have paid links, you just need to identify them as paid links. That’s what Google does, and why that company has more money than God and Allah combined. Every time you see a link at the top with the word “ads” you are looking at a paid link. It’s the identification of those paid links as paid links that makes it OK. (With BlogMutt, we’ll make sure that the posts we write for you follow all Google’s rules and the Federal Trade Commission rules, primarily by not including any ads at all.) The second thing banned is spam blogs. These are
