Figure 1: SheToldMe.com
(7 day 8299, Yesterday 16488)
Figure 2: Xomba
(7 day 4437, yesterday 5438)
Figure 3: Snipsly
Down from 10k to nearly 20k.
Yet Redgage, a site full of automated content, STILL survives. Why do these graphs make me suspect manual slaps? Or has the algorithm been tweaked?
I'm just not worrying about it, mainly because I haven't had a chance. Way to busy with work. Can't wait for "the slaps" or in WoW "nerfs" to be over so I know what to do. I am doing whatever Paul E says.
I haven't even backlinked to those sites, but I'm def going to have to.
Anyone who wasted time with these kinds of backlinks is now realizing they wasted time with these kinds of backlinks.
But ,of course, they never had any value.
They worked for me.
The content that I have backlinked at SheToldMe, Snipsly and the likes is holding up better than the content which I have not backlinked at all.
Low value? Sure. But better than no backlinking strategy at all. Of course, any page on the internet, on any site on the internet, can become a valuable backlink if you backlink that backlink
Perhaps you backlinked stuff that was above average. So it succeeded because it was above average.
Perhaps you put time into pages that you were intending to backlink. So they succeeded because they had more time spent on them.
Very hard to say. A few backlinks on crummy sites will have negligible impact. Get a few hundred and who knows?
Of course, you might lose your adsense account...
I started using Snipsly in the early days and used to have a fair few people "leech" on the site stripping RSS feeds etc.
I know this because it reports pings. Some of my snipsly bookmarks would be replicated on various blogs 5-10 times depending on the topic.
As as such, many of those backlinks self-generated authority, and still do have some authority.
When the site became highly popular the chances of this happening became very slim, although not unknown.
So, I found the site at the right time. I subsequently became the person who promoted that site on Hubpages, so effectively the person that ruined my own good thing
Will Apse,
What do you mean by "of course you could lose your adsense account"
For the last 2 days I can`t seem to open Shetoldme.
Has anyone else experienced a similar problem? Or is it just me..
STMe has been up and down for about a week.
Yesterday it was fine, now it's gone again.
by IzzyM 14 years ago
First of, I don't really know what I'm talking about, or to be more specific, I don't know the name of what I am talking about.But thanks to a few hubbers on here, I have taken to backlinking the easy way. You backlink a hub to...for example...shetoldme...or blurbalicious...one of them anyway.Then...
by N. Ramius 15 years ago
I've received 77 visitors from Ezine compared to 2k unique visitors from search engines. I'm wondering if the back link power is worth spending time writing the articles? I fail at doing them quickly. It usually taking at a minimum at least 45 minutes to do one post. I can't seem to do them quickly.
by ishwarya_p 14 years ago
I read mixed opinions about back linking hubs, I guess Google algorithm considering lot of things to rank the page well besides backlink. What you think? is back link really helped you to rank well? or without any back link a good content(with 1000 words) will rank? share your experience
by David 470 14 years ago
I did not send some backlinks to some of my hubs recently, and yet they are receiving good traffic. Should I still backlink them anyway? Whats the primarily difference if I did or did not. I usually send 5-10 backlinks or so....
by Marc Anthony 12 years ago
How many links do you typically need for a hub to get good traffic? What's your experience been? How do you go about? Where do you post links?
by DeanKeaton259 12 years ago
Does anyone use livejournal for backlinks?I think someone told me they did in the past, but I'm not sure. Is it worth putting links on livejournal?
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