The Extended Scrapebox Review - Waste of $$$ and Time

[4morereferrals]

Originally Posted by Fraggler

It is better to sell link building tools where the market hangs out - in forums, mailing lists, media buying - rather than to the few who still try and find services in Google.

Being an affiliate seller hisself ... would have thought it would also have been rather apparent that my affiliates dont particularly care for the idea of me trying to suck up all the oxygen on page one ...

Ive never personally built 1 backlink to the site for the term "backlink indexing" or with that anchor text ...

2011-04-17_1615 - sputnikkk13's library

Never even really tried ... but alas - no where to be found

The terms lists by TZ as terms I should be optimizing for or ranking for - well - guess they make sense to him.

[DOWORKSON]

Originally Posted by TZ

Excellent argument. I stand in awe of your intellectual fireworks.

And yes, those who have been making a full time living for over 8 years have more credibility that those that are still weekend warriors.

In April we made over total income;

- $4900 in Adsense
- $5300 in products
- $700 in CJ commissions

8 years and that's all your pulling in? I've been at this a little over a year and am at almost double your split commissions. Not saying this to be a brat, i'm saying this because you need to stop arguing and start hustling..

[TZ]

Originally Posted by DOWORKSON

8 years and that's all your pulling in? I've been at this a little over a year and am at almost double your split commissions. Not saying this to be a brat, i'm saying this because you need to stop arguing and start hustling..

Actually, I don't take that as an insult. I agree with you completely. If I had not wasted so much time playing with toys and some pretty shoddy ebook systems, I would have been much further ahead.

You're right - if I had just concentrated on writing good blog posts all those years we would likely be making 3 times that.

So what are you taking in right now per month? Not a taunt.

[InitialEffort]

WOW...Scrapebox is probably the most powerful tool that most people can afford. Apparently you have no unlocked the full power for both backlinking and finding URLs.

Rarely would I jump on someone like this...but what a terrible review.

[shulink]

I use scrapebox only to find high PR blogs and manually post comments. I never use any other feature from scrapebox. In my opinion, it is still useful for blog commenting. Of course, if you are saying blog commenting is useless to SEO, then that's a different story.

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[ptwain]

I will have to agree with TZ here, and say scrapebox is not a great tool when you if comes down to traffic and making money. Now is scrapebox a worthless tool? Of course not, because there's so much other indirect things you can do with it, and based on the price point it should be considered a good tool.

But what I think TZ is talking about and trying to explain is does this tool actually make money for you, and that's the bottom line of mostly all tools. And that's where I have to agree with him in that Scrapebox doesn't really do nothing to internet marketers bottom line.

I have used scrapebox and tested it and my findings are with the time I put in using this tool, it wasn't helping me make money directly. I even used professional services with used scrapebox, and the benefits were very minimal (in terms of ranking ) to say the least.

However, with me saying that I wouldn't tell a fellow IM not to use it. I would just tell em that when it comes to ranking and building authority, their ROI will probably be very minimal.

That's just my two cents....

[Matt Ward]

Come on, we're all marketers here and we can't see through what is happening?

1. Guy writes controversial "review" on his site and plasters his own affiliate links and "white hat" service ads all over it
2. Guy posts thread with attention-grabbing and controversial subject line on high-traffic SEO/IM forum and just links to his site with the "review"
3. ???
4. Profit

[ptwain]

Originally Posted by mattward

Come on, we're all marketers here and we can't see through what is happening?

1. Guy writes controversial "review" on his site and plasters his own affiliate links and "white hat" service ads all over it
2. Guy posts thread with attention-grabbing and controversial subject line on high-traffic SEO/IM forum and just links to his site with the "review"
3. ???
4. Profit

That would be the case if that was the only post on his blog, but his blog has some decent content on it....Also I don't think bashing scrapebox as a seo tool is such a controversial review or subject line. It's just one man's point of view about one tool...

Now bashing SENuke X at this point and time probably would be a marketing trick

In all honestly we all need to take a chill pill.

Regards,

Paul

[TZ]

Originally Posted by mattward

Come on, we're all marketers here and we can't see through what is happening?

1. Guy writes controversial "review" on his site and plasters his own affiliate links and "white hat" service ads all over it
2. Guy posts thread with attention-grabbing and controversial subject line on high-traffic SEO/IM forum and just links to his site with the "review"
3. ???
4. Profit

Actually, it's not all marketing. I think there allot of tools out there that are questionable, and this is one of them. But it's funny you know. Most all of us here are marketers, and it's amazing how many people complain about people having their products in their sig.

So you are saying that if my sig was empty, THEN my argument would be valid? Really?

"Not sure about your detective work there Lou...."

[Fraggler]

I think he is just saying you are using this thread to get traffic to your blog.

There have been several people telling you that Scrapebox has a large amount of uses not covered by your review - that makes them plenty of money. It isn't questionable. It does exactly what it says it does. It is constantly updated and very well supported.

The problem as you are using it isn't the software anyway. The problem is with blog commenting. Scrapebox does make that easier but it isn't the sole or even the primary purpose of the software.

Scrapebox lets you scrape all sorts of data. This has BH and WH uses that really help streamline or upscale many processes. If you can't see the value in that or can only see one use for it then don't blame the software.

[MikeFriedman]

It saves me time (lots of it) doing things that I would be otherwise doing manually.

I pretty much never use it for blog commenting. I have a list of auto approve blogs that I will use occasionally to get something indexed faster.

I use it for tons of other things though. It does in minutes what would manually take me hours. That is how it makes me money.

Anything that is saving me time so that I can focus on other things, is worth a lot more than $57.


This review is completely flawed. If you wanted to make an argument that the tasks that Scrapebox completes are not worthwhile in your opinion, that is one thing. However, Scrapebox does exactly what it is advertised to do. It works efficiently and without bugs.

This review is about the same as someone who doesn't watch TV trying to say that televisions are useless.

[TZ]

Well you know guys, I can admit when I've been barking up a bad tree, or burrowing down the wrong rabbit hole, and after all the firm comments in this thread, I had to give Scrapebox another try.

To help me put a bought an ebook that helped me. Yet another ebook - man, I must have bought over 30 different ones of the years. Like collection baseball cards.

So yeah.....I swallow my pride and eat my crow.

[Mike Grant]

Originally Posted by TZ

Well you know guys, I can admit when I've been barking up a bad tree, or burrowing down the wrong rabbit hole, and after all the firm comments in this thread, I had to give Scrapebox another try.

To help me put a bought an ebook that helped me. Yet another ebook - man, I must have bought over 30 different ones of the years. Like collection baseball cards.

So yeah.....I swallow my pride and eat my crow.

No worries about us, you were just doing yourself a disservice.

[TZ]

Originally Posted by Mike Grant

No worries about us, you were just doing yourself a disservice.

Thx Mike,

I see from your posts that you have really learned how to use SB. I'm quite excited to promote the h*ll out of an old Hearing Aid blog that is primed and ready for the push.

http://aidson.com/

As usual, I'm guessing that if you already have some content rolling for a year or two on a domain, using SB and perhaps Linkpushing.net together could be interesting.

Anyone love the linkpushing.net service?

[GeorgR.]

I give you a hammer because you want to build a shed, and in the instructions for the shed it says all you need is a hammer and nails.

You fail building the shed, then write a review that the hammer sucks...

See where this is going?

[TZ]

Originally Posted by GeorgR.

I give you a hammer because you want to build a shed, and in the instructions for the shed it says all you need is a hammer and nails.

You fail building the shed, then write a review that the hammer sucks...

See where this is going?

Cute.

Yeah, so has anyone enjoyed the results with linkpushing.net?

[ExploringInfinity]

Linkpushing is a GREAT service, but I don't really pay for it anymore because I do the whole process on my own for the most part, but it's seriously nice to just drop a few bucks per month and not have to worry about your link building to certain pages anymore.

Great for 'maintenance links', and larger packages are awesome for jumping the ranks.. That type of linking is the best kind because it's so diverse. And for the price, linkpushing has all other linking services beat as far as I have seen.

[sentient]

Originally Posted by TZ

Thx Mike,

I see from your posts that you have really learned how to use SB. I'm quite excited to promote the h*ll out of an old Hearing Aid blog that is primed and ready for the push.

http://aidson.com/

As usual, I'm guessing that if you already have some content rolling for a year or two on a domain, using SB and perhaps Linkpushing.net together could be interesting.

Anyone love the linkpushing.net service?

I'm now struggling to tell when you're being sarcastic or not.

That site is primed for what? And how?

Crappy, nonsensical content, not keyword targetted etc etc etc

If you're serious about giving SB a proper go, shouldn't you at least look at your onsite SEO?

I can see that you're going for some easy low traffic geo-targetted terms, and hoping you'll get luck with some adsence clicks, but I'd hate to see some of your sites that are not primed.

[WealthWithin]

Originally Posted by mattward

Come on, we're all marketers here and we can't see through what is happening?

1. Guy writes controversial "review" on his site and plasters his own affiliate links and "white hat" service ads all over it
2. Guy posts thread with attention-grabbing and controversial subject line on high-traffic SEO/IM forum and just links to his site with the "review"
3. ???
4. Profit

LOL. Don't forget the clickbank affiliate link for the scrapebox training product in his review.

Maybe he got the inspiration from Rich Jerk.

I'm sure he has seem some affiliate commission thanks to Scrapebox by now.

[Ian Varnava]

Hey TZ,

I will put all your concerns at rest. Since you love screenshots, here's a screenshot of how much I made in 2011 so far by using ScrapeBox:

[gamboloyd]

Cheers folks, this thread just brightened my day

[basstrackerboats]

Originally Posted by TZ

Thx Mike,

I see from your posts that you have really learned how to use SB. I'm quite excited to promote the h*ll out of an old Hearing Aid blog that is primed and ready for the push.

http://aidson.com/

As usual, I'm guessing that if you already have some content rolling for a year or two on a domain, using SB and perhaps Linkpushing.net together could be interesting.

Anyone love the linkpushing.net service?

Actually linkpushing.net now offers scrape box as a part of the service.

Once a month, all the urls created in the previous month are blasted using scrapebox and the extra cost to the client is zero... it's just another upgrade.

[Andyhenry]

TZ, I get an alert when I click your link and my browser won't go there....

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