Fact or Myth: Xrumer Links Pointed to your site - Case Study



I'm interested in seeing what happens to this site. I've been in the process of destroying one of my domains with links. It's 1000+ when it was once on page 2. Been gone for a while. Going to keep hammering for a while and see what happens. Medium competition keywords.
 
It looks like his site was dropped from Google/Yahoo/Bing for all KW tested except for "plastic business cards" - ranking #10 at Goog for that term (started at #11).

Of course, the ranking drop could be due to the site not resolving, but then I wouldn't expect it to rank for "plastic business cards".

@onthewayup - Any news?
 
It looks like his site was dropped from Google/Yahoo/Bing for all KW tested except for "plastic business cards" - ranking #10 at Goog for that term (started at #11).

Of course, the ranking drop could be due to the site not resolving, but then I wouldn't expect it to rank for "plastic business cards".

@onthewayup - Any news?

A week long downtime will do that to your rankings...
 
If you think the amount of links created and the timeframe are the only signals, you're an idiot.

What about the %age of these links that disapear within a few days? That's a huge signal right here. It screams **SPAM**. There are a lot more signals like this.
Dig deeper.

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Really great experiment,,and what happen to your site in the end...
but, I think slow down in link building is important...:)
 
I'd love to hear an update on this too! just got through the whole damn crazy thread

(great way to get to know WF being new here ;) gotta admit this place has more crazy ass mix of top quality - really top quality shit - with badass mad stupid yet frighteningly addictive charasima than anywhere!)

but seriously yeah i'd love to hear an update partly as i do a lot o xrumering with my own copy on a vps but have generally stopped hitting my main sites just the feeders after (and not blaming it on this, though i don't know what the hell else it could have been) I had my first ever actual de-indexing of a site a couple months back...

i have about 150-175 sites all on ded c class seo hosting and have ranked many a site so that freaked me a bit - probably too much - and i took my foot off the pedal a bit...
but its one good reason to have plenty of sites ;) you lose a few here and there i guess...
 
If you think the amount of links created and the timeframe are the only signals, you're an idiot.

What about the %age of these links that disapear within a few days? That's a huge signal right here. It screams **SPAM**. There are a lot more signals like this.
Dig deeper.

This may seem like a stupid question but how do these profile links "dissapear"?

Do they get deleted by forum owners? I don't think the forum owners are manually deleting links (when probably there are probably tens or hundreds of new registrations/day).
 
Great thread bro,

I did a similar experiment about a month ago;

I would buy 4 new domains all with the keyword in them, put up a 500 word article, then order 100 social bookmarks to each one, and bompas 100k xrumer blast with ping spread to all 4.

The result,

each one would get up to the top 5 spots for that keyword, make me money - then 2 weeks later receive a -50 penalty.

I did this for a while until I ranked my more solid sites for that keyword, but I've got about 10 sites all with -50 penalties. (if anyone knows anything about this penalty and what I can do with these sites now please share)

Every single time I did it, I received a -50 penalty after 2 weeks. I have a feeling though that this was caused by manual reviews of the site. I have done this for other keywords (which weren't heavily bid on with adwords) and they seem to stick.

Cheers

Naveed



how are you determining a -50 penalty? What tool are you using?

thanks
 
Great thread bro,


I did this for a while until I ranked my more solid sites for that keyword, but I've got about 10 sites all with -50 penalties. (if anyone knows anything about this penalty and what I can do with these sites now please share)

Cheers

Naveed

Either remove the links, build better ones with anchor text variation and or just site/brand name links. One thing is for sure, it will take a while to move back up!