Ezine articles backlinking trick??

[oregongal]

I was doing some keyword research using ezine articles and noticed something strange. I was looking at some of the most viewed articles in a particular category and decided to check their backlinks. Some of them had none. But quite a few had pages of backlinks - all linking to other ezine articles in the same niche! Now, that is what showed up when I right clicked on "page info".

I am wondering how they got all those backlinks. The backlinks appear to be to articles written by different authors. I see nothing on the original article page that hyperlinks to another article, or anything like that.

My question is: does anyone know how they got those backlinks??

[JayXtreme]

Originally Posted by oregongal

I was doing some keyword research using ezine articles and noticed something strange. I was looking at some of the most viewed articles in a particular category and decided to check their backlinks. Some of them had none. But quite a few had pages of backlinks - all linking to other ezine articles in the same niche! Now, that is what showed up when I right clicked on "page info".

I am wondering how they got all those backlinks. The backlinks appear to be to articles written by different authors. I see nothing on the original article page that hyperlinks to another article, or anything like that.

My question is: does anyone know how they got those backlinks??

On each article page, you have outbound links to other articles in the same category...

[oregongal]

That makes sense, but then why do some articles show up with no backlinks?

[yesacpow]

Here is what I think happen:

When some articles are (properly optimized) and get a lot of initial traffic, they will then go on to get more and more traffic and then they will go into the most viewed articles over the past 90 days.

Now when this happens, they will be on the first page in that category for a longer period of time. And as Jay said above, other articles will have an outbound link to them in that category.

But...

Because they are spending a longer time of the from page, all the previously submitted articles will give a link to them as well. So over time the links pointing to them will increase until they drop of the first page of most viewed articles.