Not entirely sure what you mean. Can you still use scrapebox and xrumer to create links -yes.

Are they effective - only google knows.

No it isn't dead... Effective? Maybe not so much, but maybe.

Because they are not dead

sooner or later but scrapebox has a lot of features is worth it beside the comment poster , other features are useful

let me give you are simple answer...nothing is dead...with google's new update...google gives value to the sites which has a good amout of backlink....I still use scrape-box and it works pretty fine for me,,,

No, they are definitely not dead!

All you have to do now, is to find better quality sites to post your back links onto..

Its pretty simple..

Thanks for replying everyone
I will keep using these services

Yes. It's dead. Scrapebox is no longer effective. Move along now.

Yes, my post was definitely sarcasm.

Tools like Scrapebox and Xrumer can be effective. Just don't generate thousands of links in one day and zero the next. Mix Scrapebox / Xrumer into your other link building campaigns. Instead of "blasting" away at thousands of sites a day, stick to a lower number. 50,100, etc, depending on the age of your website and how many backlinks you already have.

Slow and steady wins the race.

I'm sure they both are still effective. I just don't find them very useful and I get annoyed myself with all the spam so I don't see the need in using those tools when other methods work better for me and do not piss off people.

The new Google Algorithym does not have a large impact on these link softwares actually. I have ranked and still rank sites exclusively using these softwares. Ofcourse I incorporate Article Submission, Social bookmarks, and much more, but I have ranked various sites using just Xrumer or just Scrapebox. I just ranked a site last week using just a 5k blast of Xrumer for a adsense CPC 3.18 word with 6k exact searches. It is making me around $7-10 every day right now.

They aren't dead they aren't just being talked about recently. I will still use it and it should be used consistently.

Everything is dead. Product launches, adsense sites, Scrapebox, EZA, SEO, PPC, and the Warrior Forum too. It's like living amongst zombies.

They won't die so soon.. haha people has paid lot of money for such softwares and even if they don't work some other software will come. Anyway to answer your question I never used any of those softwares because i never felt it necessary but one of my close friend is always a software maniac and just for a test he did it on a 1 month old not in use domain and the domain ranked on page 1 for just 1 blast.

Why would they suddenly stop working? They are only tools that automate the linkbuilding process.

Google's algorithm can't see what tools you are using to build links. All Google can see is a footprint that you leave across many websites while using those tools. It's only naturally for Google to take a common instance of text, HTML, etc. and say "Hey, this looks like spam on this site, let's compare it with the billions of others in our database and see if it shows up a lot."

No, Scrapebox and Xrumer aren't dead, just those people who fail to understand that they can't use the default settings and spam to their hearts content and expect it to still be effective.

Minimize your footprints and use some imagination and you'll survive any algorithm change.

hello,
i need details of Scrapebox / Xrumer technique, anybody help me!

i don't think you understand the recent google updates, they where more targeted at low quality / low rent sites sitting high up the serp's providing no content back to the visitors. Google, with the farmer update has once again upped it's required quality, like all other updates. This update targeted onsite quality, the last large update, targeted links.

This was really to be expected, If you build quality links, and quality sites the only thing you'll be obsessing over when google updates come out is how much better your rankings get =)

Where to buy huge list of auto-approve do follow blogs?

It's very well alive I tell ya.

Because of ScrapeBox, I had made $600 so far this month on ClickBank.

So now you realize its automation power.

The algorithm only affected content farms and scraper sites.
Scrapebox and Xrumer are both used for a different type of link building.
So no reason why the new algo change should have affected them.