BMR Stagnant Back-links

Has this affected your rankings at all?

You are obviously using a backlinks tool to get this info right? Well when using those tools you aren't going to get an accurate figure, and yes, it does have the possibility to fluctuate.

The amount of backlinks really don't matter compared to your ranking. If you keep seeing an increase in rankings over all, then obviously something is going right.

-- Jeff

When the links are first created they count as 2 sometimes because the homepage link and the link within the individual post itself.

When it falls of the homepage then the link will go away too.

My position in the google search engine has been going back and forth on the lower part of page 1 and top part of page 2.

As for Alexa Rank:
Sept 11 - 1,708,075
Sept 14 - 1,704,723
Sept 15 - 1,707,352
Sept 16 - 1,652,054
Sep 17 - 1,611,796
Sept 19 - 1,608,969
Sept 20 - 1,568,877
Sept 21 - 1,571,155
Sept 23 - 1,570,452
Sept 24 - 1,569,785
Sept 25 - 1,566,469
Sept 27 - 1,565,661
Sept 28 - 1,568,687
Sept 29 - 1,567,824

The Alexa Ranking has mainly gotten better, but it shot up a little a couple random times and these past few days.

I am using the firefox tool SEO Quake to check my backlinks to domain aka LD


As for what 36burrows said, I completely understand that. The thing I don't get is if I've been doing 10 post a day, every single day since the start, and 180 posts later I'm at less backlinks when the majority are BMR backlinks. That just doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

The problem I'm having with BMR right now is:
#1 I don't know if the cost is worth the reward: $59 bucks a month for a site that just hit maybe $50 a month, plus the labor of writing 10 posts everyday (kinda frustrating).
#2 Lot of effort invested in one service, that if it disappears, thats a lot of work gone in thin air, even if I were to start diversifying my backlink strategy, it still wouldn't take away the hard work writing 250 posts.

So this is tough for me, because I love the results I've seen with BMR, but it's hard to determine if it's reached it's plateau.

I don't know why people seem to think writing articles to get backlinks is 'hard work'. Go get a job in labour and then tell me writing a few words sitting at a computer is 'hard work'. It takes 5-10 minutes to write a 150 character article, which isn't bad for a decent backlink.

You're only at "less backlinks" because the posts are rolling off the homepage. So 10 minutes work for 1 powerful, although temporary backlink and one permanent backlink, what more do you want?

Alright let me address a few things.

To Maverick: When I say hard work, I don't know how much effort you put into your BMR Post, but I try to make sure they are half way decent. I type about 65-70 wpm, and it usually takes me around 45 min. to write 10 posts.

I value my time, and when I see something that may not have long term usefulness, I question it.

As for me saying it's hard work. Yes, It's a pain in the ass to keep up with something where the compensation doesn't equal the work. Maybe that will change with time, but as for right now I would technically be losing money.

And also in regards to them falling off the hompage Maverick - you said "You're only at "less backlinks" because the posts are rolling off the homepage." That doesn't make any sense. Just because a backlink rolls off the homepage doesn't mean it's suppose to go away. Of course the ranking drops, but that's not what I'm talking about here.

I'm saying that 180 posts later, I'm at less backlinks then I was before.

To 36burrows:

As for outsourcing BMR posts, that is a little on the costly side for me right now. I still haven't seen the results in terms of monetization to justify that cause

So the question now is, if i started off at 320 - Sept 11, and I'm now at 306 - Sept 29

If the average time a link is on the site is 5 days. That's maybe 50 posts getting 2 links credit which equals a 100.

I've done 180 posts in that time frame, so double that is 360 added links, but If i'm only getting 1 link value after they fall off main page, I'm still missing 180 additional links that should of been added in that time frame lol.

From a business perspective I will say you should abandon the BMR service. If you spending an hour each day writing articles to experience a negative ROI it just does not make business sense.

From an SEO perspective I will advise you to concentrate on submitting at least 5 guest posts a month to blogs that have a domain authority of 50+ (check opensiteexplorer for domain authority). This approach will help you maintain your rank, you may even experience a boost, and by guest posting on relevent blogs there will also be the added benefit of generating more traffic.

I would say the main problem is that you're spending so much time worrying about some arbitrary figure some random software is spitting out for the number of "backlinks" your site has.

If your rank is suffering, then do something about it, open a ticket with BMR.

If your rank is staying somewhat the same (not dropping 10-20 spots every few days) then don't worry so much about it.

To Laptop:

I'm not sure what to expect from BMR. Did it get me to page 1, yes it did. But the biggest issue is long term. I was concerned about the backlinks, that's why I posted here to see if anyone was having the same issue. No one has suggested a viable solution other than to discredit the concern. They may very well be right, that it's something I shouldn't concern myself with, but at the same time, I can't help but raise an eyebrow at the strangeness of the decrease in backlinks.

To Eleva:

This is exactly how I'm feeling. From a business perspective, at the moment, it's not making much sense. I haven't given BMR enough time, but as I add on to it, that's only many more post I'm going to have to come up with everyday in hopes that my monetization far outweighs the expense. It will be tough to determine whether this is something I will continue over the next few months, but I wanted to raise the backlink issue as a concern.

To Matt:

You may be right, as for the amount of time spend, maybe 30 min? I just decided to address this issue, and I wouldn't consider that spending too much time, especially to get feedback from the community, you never know what you'll learn, and it's good for us to share concerns and ideas, to better approach these issues.

To D0rhk:

Thankfully my SERP is fine. But I'm analyzing all factors, because I'm looking at the long-term effects. If my backlinks continues to stay the same, there might be a problem here.

When i say it 'rolls off the page', it takes time for the back link checkers to reflect the change of the link being on a new page. In the meantime, Google will notice that the link is no longer on the home page (which is indexed more frequently than the latter pages) and back link checkers will reflect this.

Also why would you even care that the back link checkers don't reflect your backlinks? If you want solid proof that your links still exist simply keep a document with all the links in it, then check to see if they're still indexed in Google or whether they've disappeared.

You will find that the links still exist, however if you wish to disprove me do as i suggested and let us know how it goes. I'll be interested to hear the results.

What does Alexa Ranking have to do with BMR, backlink count and Google rankings?

Alexa Rank will naturally go down over time because you are visiting your own site.

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320 on blah blah date etc

those are the backlinks showing to your site?
your site rank? in the serps?

You need to vary your link building, link building rate, and anchor text if you want to start moving those SERPS again. 10 posts a day, everyday to the same page with similar anchor text is really just not very natural. You need to start adding in some "link noise" as I call it. Basically loads of low PR links that are constantly humming around and being found by Google. These links should add tons of different anchor texts to your link portfolio as well as keep Google noticing your pages "buzz".

BMR is extremely powerful when used as the icing on the cake of link building. Those who look at it as their main link building tool usually find that their SERPs get stuck. Many people including myself have realized that there isn't much difference between getting 20 BMR links and 200 BMR links to a page. The more you vary the anchor text the more movement you'll see but even that wears off. I can't stress this enough people... use other methods of link building in addition to BMR and look at BMR as the added spice to the recipe. If you get some SERP momentum going then throw in some BMR you'll really see the power.

Well said, the good thing is I very much vary the anchor text, which I think has helped me in a lot of ways. Now I've got to figure out how to supplement that effort, and see what I can do. I really like the strategy on the smart passive income blog, but i really am not interested in paying for another service such as UAW, best article spinner, or blog blue print right now, so I'll just have to see what I can come up with.

Hey,

I too do articles submissions in BMR and yes for the first few it worked as the ranking of the site I have submitted articles for has been gone up but now it is not happening though the submissions for the same site I did more than earlier. I don't know the exact reason but what I have concluded is that BMR submits the articles to very low PR sites which all even I came to know after seeing my article there. don't exactly know what the problem is going on.

No backlinks count is 100% accurate.

I'm pretty sure you'll get different backlinks count with Ahrefs.com, Majestic SEO, YSE and OSE.

The effectiveness of BMR will go down as they have a limited number of blogs they can post to so if you think it's tapped out, time to move to a different network and focus your effort there. There are at least 5 others.

That's a bit odd I suppose but honestly, as others have pointed out, it's really NOT an important metric. Measure your rankings instead. (before, during, and a few months after your BMR push).