New EZA article has over 2000 backlinks? How?

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I found an article on EZA, it's ranking for a pretty competitive keyword term and it's fairly new... about 3 months old and it has over 2000 backlinks pointing to it. It already had over 5,000 views.

How are some people getting these amounts of backlinks so quickly? This guy is ranking for some seriously competitive keyword and I don't doubt he is cashing in well from it too.

I'm sure he is using some software, if only I knew what kind of software.
#search engine optimization #article #backlinks #eza
  • maybe he is using Scrapebox or xrumer ? Those 2 are hell popular !!
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    • Thanks, heard of them before... Have you tried them yourself? Which one is better? Do they really work?:confused:
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  • They are tools mostly used for spamming, don't go there, not even for the quick buck. But if you checked the backlinks can't you see what type they are? Spam backlinks are usually pretty obvious, they have a certain, erm, 'odour' about them.
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    • I'm afraid to check them. These sites don't look credible. I'm afraid to get some junk/spyware on my pc. There is no way I can get over 2,000 backlinks to my articles manually.

      Anyway, spamming or not spamming... it obviously works for him.
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  • Hello Katya,

    Have you checked whether or not the article is in the most viewed or published sections on EZA, a lot of people forget that the internal linking structure of a website can directly influence an articles ranking.

    Chris
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    • Oh, I know what you're talking about. Yeah it's obviously in the most viewed or most published category on EZA somewhere as it has backlinks from EZA as well.
  • Banned
    (i) By not understanding what they're doing;

    (ii) By imagining that they'll benefit from it in the long run;

    (iii) By buying cheap backlinks at places like fiverr.com;

    (iv) By using software to build automated spamming backlinks of no long-term value;

    (v) By not appreciating what a mistake it is to do this, because they haven't really thought it through, typically haven't appreciated the long-term downside, and haven't read all the Warrior Forum threads like this thread, this thread, this thread and this thread where it's explained how short-sighted this can be.

    He really isn't, Katya. It's not "the guy's site" that's ranking, is it? He's ensuring that EZA ranks for the keyword. They must be delighted, and he perhaps hasn't quite worked out that he's losing most of his traffic! He probably imagines that he's getting traffic from an article directory while what he's actually doing is sending his traffic, generated from his backlinks helping EZA, to an article directory! He probably doesn't realise that in the long run, he'll pay for that. :rolleyes:

    Call me a skepchick, but I doubt that very much indeed because it's clear that his whole business model leaves quite a bit to be desired and perhaps hasn't been too well thought through at all. And if he is cashing in to any extent from it in the short term, it's at the expense of his longer-term prospects and about as short-sighted as you can get. Maybe he doesn't realise it, but by doing that, he'll end up consigning himself to a "rinse and repeat" model of article marketing rather than ever building a business which develops true residual income.

    You and I can do a bit better than that.
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    • skepchick


      The whole idea of article marketing is to promote your sites and get your sites ranking #1

      By firing so many links at an article you are actually sabotaging your success. I suppose it might indicate a fundamental lack of belief in your own sites if you choose to promote eza over your site..


      I hate having to ponder such deep questions on a sunday morning!


      @katya, I used to do a lot of analysis of EZA based business models, if you want to pm me the link i'll do one on the article
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    • Alexa, I can see where you're coming from and you have a point, but the only reason I choose to point backlinks to EZA over my own site is because I believe it's easier to get EZA (or any other site for that matter such as Scribd/Docstoc) ranked, than my own site.

      My site is PR0. What chances do I have of outranking EZA? Zero. I'm obviously promoting EZA for my own benefits, to get people to see my article and get them to click on the link in my resourcebox.

      Also, you seem to rely on people who pick your articles up and republish them on their own sites. Too bad I'm not that lucky.

      My articles on their own get very little views if I don't promote them after submitting. That said, it's crucial for me to optimize them and promote them, if I ever want to get something out of it, otherwise they are just useless as they don't generate much views/traffic on their own.
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      It is.

      And as long as you do that, it always will be: you'll never have a site that you can rank properly.


      Every site I've ever had has started off as PR-0!

      This is true for all of us.

      Wrong.

      You have every chance of outranking EZA. Outranking EZA is easy. I have absolutely no problem outranking EZA or any other article directory. And you can see in this thread loads of other people saying exactly the same thing: it isn't just some trick of mine because my articles get syndicated, you know? That isn't relevant to this point.

      And don't imagine that you can't outrank EZA "because it's PR-6". It's only its home page that's PR-6, and that has nothing to do with anything you're using it for at all. Your EZA articles, just like mine, go on non-context-relevant PR-0 pages. You can't outrank those?! Well, only because you're doing their SEO for them at the expense of your own ...

      But if you send your traffic to EZA, and build backlinks to EZA, then yes, you're right, because that's the outcome you're producing, and you'll never outrank EZA.

      EZA will love you for ever, though: directly or indirectly, you're sending them a cut of all your future income.

      You're generating traffic with backlinking campaigns and sending that traffic to EZA and getting back only what's left of it, after EZA's AdSense (from which, of course, they make their living) and other distractions have taken their share of it.

      Seriously, and respectfully, and warmly, and all the rest of it (i.e. you know me well enough to know that I'm not trying to criticise you for the sake of it!! ) I think you're ignoring the warnings and consequences of the points made here, here, here, here and so on. I understand the problem that your sites can't outrank EZA, but if you keep sending traffic to EZA, they never will, because you're shooting them in the elegantly high-heeled foot all the time.
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    • Hi Alexa.

      I have been reading all your posts with great interest. Is this advice not in contrary to things you have said previously? I understand nowadays you advocate building relationships and posting (I am assuming here) on authority high traffic niche blogs. By posting your articles on there, sure you receive traffic to your site.

      So what is the difference between what you are doing and this Ezine Article dude in question? On the Ezine Articles, traffic is being leaked to the Adsense and Ezine Articles are laughing all the way to the bank. On the niche sites where perhaps you are posting, traffic is being leaked to their other posts, Adsense, CPA or whatever else they have on there. It, to me anyway, does seems like a loss-loss situation either way. Unless of course, you actually own the niche high traffic website yourself.

      It just seems to me, there maybe exceptions but as an overall, there is no such thing as long term residual passive income when it comes to IM. By that I mean 7 - 10 years+. This is a market that is on the constant change and something that works for a couple of years may becomes void. There is a hell of a lot less stability here then the offline marketing world.

      And I have been reading about people saying "don't put all your eggs on one basket" and now, I can totally understand what they mean by it. I would not bother doing just one thing like article marketing but a whole list of different ventures. And it is near impossible for one person to do everything without employing people or outsourcing.

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  • To get backlink you can buy for less then $10 get 5000 backlink
    But " Just waste your money.
    Do slow i you do right researh you will well with less backlink
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  • All of this AND another major problem is that EZA posts ads all over their page and ad/off-page links outnumber resource links probably 200:1 (just a guess). It's a numbers game and on EZA, the numbers are not in your favor.
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  • It is possible that he actually does not have a site? His article may point to a domain that redirects to his affiliate link?
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  • Either you use scrapebox or xrumer, all in all
    try and get manual links it works well as well
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  • You can easily buy the links from someone (odesk.com, fiverr.com, backlinks forum etc.) or use a paid article directory service/blog network to do this for him.

    Some people frown upon this sort of stuff (falsely thinking that Google has some set of fair rules in place for SEO) but that's how its done.

    It's hard to say exactly without seeing the article.

    Obviously, he should have directed the links to his main site.
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  • It's funny how you "diz" the guy who is obviously using some gray/black techniques to boost his article - but the irony is that HE IS RANKING the article well, it is very obvious that his Xrumer/Scrapebox blast etc. works <---

    It is sad that many article publishers use such techniques, and yes, the honest and in-experienced marketer/article writer/SEO therefore has a significant disadvantage.

    Alexa....you are smart enough to know that if he blasts his article containing his link, it will also benefit his site.
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      Nobody's suggesting that he isn't ranking the article well, Georg.

      I'm not even suggesting that he's using the wrong-coloured headwear to do it.

      I'm just making the (surely obvious?) point that he'd be much better off ranking the article well on HIS site rather than on someone else's site, and that to that extent (like so many people who fall into this trap) he doesn't really know what he's doing. :p

      Yes, but a little bit instead of a lot. He's losing his visitors unnecessarily to EZA's AdSense.

      He's "blasting" someone else's property instead of his own, isn't he? He has a problem, perhaps: he's boosted other people's sites so much in the SERP's that he now has a site with which he can't even outrank an article directory!! And he probably thinks that's "normal"!
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  • Have someone create a clean wordpress theme for you and put your link at the footer of that theme. Give that theme away for free.

    This is the technique I did with one of my sites (just sold at flippa) having more than 700K backlinks all from different wordpress blogs... oh, and that is not bl@ckha@t
  • Some good stuff here. However, I don't agree with the statement that a 0 PR article on a PR 6 article directory is the same as a 0 PR blogpost with a 0 PR homepage. You can get articles ranked for relatively competitive keywords fairly easy with almost no backlinking. You couldn't achieve that with a post on a new blog.
    If this were the case, then profile links from high PR forums would be the same as a profile link from a 0 PR site because you are essentially leaving a link on a PR 0 page.
    Pages on high PR article directories and profile pages will get you ranked faster and higher because the high PR sites get crawled more frequently and carry more weight.
    I do agree though that you should really be building links to your site and not an article directory.
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    • Hello Bravo,

      My point here is that the authority sites my articles get syndicated on are not PR0 sites, far from it in fact.

      They are high PR niche authority sites and rank better than any EZA articles in their respective niches.

      Excuse me but may I ask whose comment you are referring to here? Just out of interest.

      My posts here are about syndicated content on high authority sites. Not blog comments.

      I'd also like it to be known I don't leave any crap comments on blogs I may comment on.

      They tend to get deleted in my experience.
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  • Let me tell you how they do that.

    Xrumer Blast
    SENuke Blast

    Each blast can get you about 700 or even more! backlinks.
  • Can you give us the post to the article you found? Let's see what we're working with.

    Also, I think if you build about 20 quality backlinks and linking to articles, you'll be okay to out rank it
  • It's not uncommon for some to pay for some sort of mass link back of their content at an off site location, where their content on that site, links back to their money site. Some just like to protect their money site, and control the quality of the direct inbound link.

    I didn't see but got first hand knowledge from an associate who did, a case where a guy ranked real well for a fairly competitive term with very few, if not one link. Turns out the link was from his yellow pages listing, but that listing had hundreds if not thousands of inbound links to it.

    Perhaps this is what the EZA is trying to achieve. There are a lot of ways to 'skin a cat' or SEO a site.
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  • The weight of a new EZA article is more than creating an own article on your "new" website. You'll often outrank other websites without having to backlink at all, but not with competitive keywords ofcourse.

    For example, if you're Ted, and trying to aim for a new product name keyword with almost no competition (note: websites will always appear when typing in the keyword) and you write an article with that keyword included, you'll get ranked on the first page most likely, unless everyone else does the same..

    But if you're Maggy and write an article for the keyword "diet", then ofcourse you'll have to build tons of backlinks. So EZA articles does weight more, but that doesn't mean it will get you high ranks.

    What I want to say is, when you write an article for EZA, it will get ranked way higher than writing the article on your own website. So you really need to think of a good strategy here .

    I recommend not linking to ezine articles, instead link them to your website.
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    New EZA article has over 2000 backlinks? How?

    I found an article on EZA, it's ranking for a pretty competitive keyword term and it's fairly new... about 3 months old and it has over 2000 backlinks pointing to it. It already had over 5,000 views. How are some people getting these amounts of backlinks so quickly? This guy is ranking for some seriously competitive keyword and I don't doubt he is cashing in well from it too.