Does SAPE links work longterm?

Depends on your competition.
There is no general answer to this.
When your competition is getting links that are the same quaslity but they use link velocity, you may lose (also depends on other factors).

When you make money, reinvest a portion of it to get more links and to stay ahead of your competition

If you loose the links, your rankings drop too.

Besides that, any unnatural form of building links is unhealthy and shows short sightedness.

If you are building anything for the long term, don't buy any link building services. EVER. There are better ways to get natural links, traffic and SE Rankings. Slow but worth the weight.

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Still selling THAT?
Want to do a test (since you are KEEN).

We will decide on a keyword, any keyword and then we use your old school shit and we use mine and see what ranks.

Up for it? Or are you and your buddies just talk?

To answer the original question, from what I've seen sape works long term unless a manual review catches it. Certain sape providers will try to make the links less noticeable.

I haven't used it yet, but some of my competition that uses sape has been up for awhile.

I wouldn't use it for an authority site though. But that's just me.

OP asked do SAPE links work long term, when we all know those links are temporary, so why the $#@% would a sane person point SAPE links at a legit long term site. Crazy ideas. :rolleyes:

Bottom line is obviously SAPE links work, but they're BH links, even by link builder standards & they're an easy target for reporting when the webmasters find out they've been hacked.

I could care less who wins the pissing match, carry on...

Try it for a month and see if you make your 140 back. IF you don't then drop the subscription. But I wouldn't call these links high quality. They may be powerful but the ranking increase you get from them isn't going to last over the long term.

All that being said, I wouldn't use sape links directly to your domain if its something you really care about. Notice I said "domain" and not "site". The site itself can exist on another domain if all goes to crap.

To answer OP...

The problem with SAPE is that others have access to it and PR juice is dependent on outbound links as well. For instance, if you buy Site A and at time of purchase there are only 15 outbound SAPE links and then by the end of the year, there are 100 outbound SAPE links, your PR juice is diminished and so will your rankings.

You'll probably need to invest in more links to keep up with the diminishing rate of PR, as I said before... others have access to those same links.

The other issue is SAPE is a very "public" network now and Google may or may not be sifting through the network and diminishing PR juice (won't get you a penalty, but the money you spend won't get you better PR juice either).

Best bet is to focus on building your own private network that you control, so you don't run into ANY of these issues, IMO.

SAPE is a very high risk, short-term strategy and in my opinion its days are numbered. Google is closing in and like Mike said earlier. If you suspect your competition has SAPE links you can report them to Google.

Unless you're still building EMDs in 2013 - I don't see the point of them.

Sape links are working fine even after latest Penguin update. Make sure you use other link types as well.

I currently run 50 campaigns on SAPE, both mine and my clients'. With over 500 different keywords. My average customer has been working with me for over 6 months now. Everything is going smoothly no matter what updates Google have launched. So, my personal experience shows that SAPE does work in long term, but you have to know how to use it properly, of course.

I wouldn't risk my clients' sites with SAPE links. That's madness.

SAPE is good for churn and burn sites.

You would have to be out of your mind to use it on any site you cared about keeping or a client's site.

You already know it is on Google's radar. Sure maybe they haven't taken it down yet, but my money is on the multi-billion dollar company and all their Ivy League engineers vs some rogue Russian Network.

Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not a few months from now, but SAPE will be gone eventually.

One day faster than you can say "Would you like fries with that?", thousands of unnatural link notices will be sent out I guarantee.

Chill, all of you My site is offering SAPE services (see my profile for confirmation)! All my clients who has hired me did that through my site that offers SAPE backlinks, while searching for SAPE links provider! What kind of madness are you talking about? If all the customers find me after searching for an experienced SAPE expert they get exactly what they are searching for. They know enough about SAPE links, I have explained everything to them and they still insist on using this service. Everything is 100% transparent to them. So, what kind of "ass raping" are you talking about, Kevin?!

To OP: Link velocity is playing a larger and larger role in determining rankings (as it should because it makes sense). If you add 140 links in a short burst and then there is no more growth, well than Google is less likely to send traffic to your page because it's now viewed by the algo as less popular/valuable.

To Mike Anthony who said if you use SAPE a competitor will just report you: So you mean I can just buy SAPE links for all of my competitors and then report them and win all the SERPs and all the moneyz? Please.

To Whoever Said SAPE is a Network of Hacked Sites: Hacking a site and adding it to the SAPE network is against their TOS as far as I can tell. I'm sure there have been cases of hacked sites but it's not the norm. Russian webmasters use the network to make additional income from their sites. It is common practice for people with older or less trafficked sites who wouldn't see much revenue from just advertisements. It's not as prevalent as say Adsense, but if you have a site with 20 PR3+ pages and sell 10 OBLs on each for $5/month, that's a cool grand. Maybe you couldn't make $5/link on inner pages but still it could add up fast.

your links got also be partly devalued over time apaprt from competitors adding more or gaining better authority and site quality which may make them rise -0 you cannot be stagnant and only rely on these 140 links you NEED to add more

You play game with Google so it depends on Google. I think you must add more links from other source( authority sites, not the BS profile links to your main site)

No ok,
Let's be fair here with SAPE for a second. There is no doubt, based on a lot of high comp SERPs results. That SAPE is clearly currently working, as a great way to rank a site quickly.
There's no doubt in that.
But what will happen is, buyers of the network will start to get greedy. Buying up more and more links. Going after multi markets. But probably leaving the same footprint of anchor, over and over and over.
Google will just join the dots. So it's really the members who mess it up for everyone else. And not the public blog network concept itself. It works, and will work, until members break it.