What the Hell is Going on... Sorry for the Obligatory READ THIS Title But Seriously!
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So I've been creating backlinks via forum profiles where I'll get links pointing back from the forum to dozens of articles I've written on various topics. I've analyzed the backlinks of other writer's articles and that method seemed to be working for them as their articles rank quite well for whatever they're targeting.
I decided to check my progress on one article in particular of mine to see how it was doing in the SERPs for the phrase I was targeting and I can't find it at least on the first 16 pages of listings. This is an article I wrote over a year ago which I only started building backlinks to in the past few months, there's no reason it shouldn't be appearing somewhere in there at least.
What's more puzzling is there is an Ezine article from some guy on the first page for that search term around position 6 and upon checking his backlinks he has 5 versus my 50ish, none of which of his are from PR sites, in fact 3 are from Ezine itself, 1 is from some random spammy blog,
BUT!
MOST puzzling of all is the final link which is for this one site with a ton of random code in the URL, but when I checked it out to see what kind of site it was and the PR for it and all that, IT REDIRECTED TO A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ARTICLE WHICH I WROTE FOR THE SAME NICHE ON EZINE which targets the same keyword phrase plus an extra word at the end.
This was without practically any poking around I come upon this. I feel like I'm in the Truman Show or something, what the hell is going on with this and why is a short no PR article enjoying first page listing with no link building to back it up and I can't even find mine...?
I decided to check my progress on one article in particular of mine to see how it was doing in the SERPs for the phrase I was targeting and I can't find it at least on the first 16 pages of listings. This is an article I wrote over a year ago which I only started building backlinks to in the past few months, there's no reason it shouldn't be appearing somewhere in there at least.
What's more puzzling is there is an Ezine article from some guy on the first page for that search term around position 6 and upon checking his backlinks he has 5 versus my 50ish, none of which of his are from PR sites, in fact 3 are from Ezine itself, 1 is from some random spammy blog,
BUT!
MOST puzzling of all is the final link which is for this one site with a ton of random code in the URL, but when I checked it out to see what kind of site it was and the PR for it and all that, IT REDIRECTED TO A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ARTICLE WHICH I WROTE FOR THE SAME NICHE ON EZINE which targets the same keyword phrase plus an extra word at the end.
This was without practically any poking around I come upon this. I feel like I'm in the Truman Show or something, what the hell is going on with this and why is a short no PR article enjoying first page listing with no link building to back it up and I can't even find mine...?
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