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Why would this happen? (back links)

by FreeMeal
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about two weeks ago I bought 10,000 back links gig from fiverr (Scrapebox), and got them pointed at one of my squidoo lenses. I'm fairly new to SEO, and it was kind of an experiment to see what would happen.

Within a couple of days my seobook toolbar was showing 9k links to my lens in Yahoo, and it was ranking on page 2 for a few of my low competition keywords. Now I've noticed the toolbar is saying i'm losing about 1k links a day (currently showing 7k backlinks) and the SERP have dropped right down to about page 10.

Why would back links disappear so rapidly like that, is it normal?

Would these disappearing links by the cause of the SERRPs drop, could it be a dance? or maybe a punishment?

thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Kiril S
    If Scrapebox was used to create those 10k links, my
    logical explanation for your issue is that maybe some
    links disappeared because of deleted blog comments due to spamming reasons, thus you lost some backlinks which in turn made you lose your place in the SERP.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      The most likely reason for this is that many of the blogs commented on have a "Recent Comments" type widget on them. When a search engine spider visits the site if you happen to have one of the recent comments, it is going to see your backlink on every page it visits at that time. You will get credited with those backlinks. The next time it visits, your comment has likely been bumped off that list, so all those backlinks no longer appear. Just the one original comment.

      You might have been getting hundreds of backlinks from the same sites. In the case of a very large site, maybe even close to a thousand from the same site.

      It is common and no big deal.
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  • Profile picture of the author JaySam
    Originally Posted by FreeMeal View Post

    about two weeks ago I bought 10,000 back links gig from fiverr (Scrapebox), and got them pointed at one of my squidoo lenses. I'm fairly new to SEO, and it was kind of an experiment to see what would happen.

    Within a couple of days my seobook toolbar was showing 9k links to my lens in Yahoo, and it was ranking on page 2 for a few of my low competition keywords. Now I've noticed the toolbar is saying i'm losing about 1k links a day (currently showing 7k backlinks) and the SERP have dropped right down to about page 10.

    Why would back links disappear so rapidly like that, is it normal?

    Would these disappearing links by the cause of the SERRPs drop, could it be a dance? or maybe a punishment?

    thanks
    This effect shows that the search engine is wiser than you think, and I think it is more on links only not the quality backlinks that can produce by the manual submission. Do not rely on automation try to focus on how you optimize your site in a quality way.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by JaySam View Post

      This effect shows that the search engine is wiser than you think, and I think it is more on links only not the quality backlinks that can produce by the manual submission. Do not rely on automation try to focus on how you optimize your site in a quality way.
      No. Read my post above. It has nothing to do with the search engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author FreeMeal
    good replies. thanks.

    yes, i did notice, out of the links i did check, some of them where in "recent comments" boxes on home pages with decent PR.
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  • Profile picture of the author LiftMyRank
    You have to be careful with negative link velocity (losing your backlinks) because it will as you've noticed, not help your rankings, and why it's important for your long term SEO to build quality backlinks that stick.
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