bobblehat
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- Dec 12, 2008
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I Think Xrumer Might Be Complete BullS!*T
I realise this is a bit provocative but I believe it to be a valid question today just after a Google PR update...
I own a licensed copy of Xrumer and I have kind of stopped using it in the last month or so because I had a suspicion is was doing more damage than good.
I have tried many methods and ultimately only recently felt safe doing profiles due to the nagging doubt that has been growing now for six months or so.
Basically I have generated loads of "safe" backlinks with Xrumer over time by careful posting using covert techniques and still I have seen many domains lose PR and even some banned from the big G.
When I say "careful" I don't believe you could use Xrumer any less provocatively than I have...
So long story short I hve been doing other things I felt were safer... SB, BMD, RSS, Angela & Paul, etc...
PROOF MY FEARS ARE REAL ????
Here's the thing that is making me make this post:
Today I found an old BHW post I had commented on a while back but thought no more of it.
The post was about xrumerunleashed.com (which I believe is something belonging to some members here so it would be good to hear what they say to this post) a video course by some Xrumer "gurus" about getting the most out of Xrumer...
So I was sitting thinking that maybe I just got my Xrumer campaigns wrong and that maybe I should invest in this course...
Then it came to me clearly that if these guys really knew how to get the most out of Xrumer then their domain should rank highly right ?
So I looked up http://www.xrumerunleashed.com and saw it has a PR 4 which is not too shabby...
THEN
I did a backlink lookup on Yahoo...
They only have 256 backlinks !!!
Not so many and that is strange considering that Xrumer can generate gazillions in no time at all if unleashed in anger!
Most of the links they do have are true Xrumer footprint links in forums (very easy to recognise if you know Xrumer and that could be a clue!) and when I went to check them most of them are actually deleted...
The fact is though that the ones that are still live all have the same anchor text: "Blackhat SEO" as you can see in this typical example:
http://azd.ro/forum/archive/index.php/thread-26061.html
So I cracked up MS and SEO Elite to check it out further...
Long story short is they rank nowhere even with their PR4!!!
When I say "nowhere" I mean NOWHERE... not in the top 1,000 results! Zero...Zilch... NADA!
Google still has them in the index (site:xrumerunleashed.com) but only with 2 pages which is a bit weird if they are penalizing the site...
There are only 25 links in Google (link:xrumerunleashed.com) and most of those from ******** (which I suspect is also their domain).
Anyway you see my point?
Here are two Xrumer "gurus" who obviously have blasted their site using their tool of choice and yet they rank nowhere for their preferred key phrase!
I am inclined to believe my "gut feeeling" and that says Xrumer doesn't work anymore and that it is worse than that and it actually has a negative effect on your sites when used
I'd love for someone to prove my fear wrong ?
Anybody got anything to add that might shed more light on this?
How can 2 experts in Xrumer use NOT rank for their preferred Key Phrase IF Xrumer actually does what it says on the tin ?
Big can of worms is now open.... "INCOMING" !!!
I am ducking right now!
Anyone???
:behindsof
I realise this is a bit provocative but I believe it to be a valid question today just after a Google PR update...
I own a licensed copy of Xrumer and I have kind of stopped using it in the last month or so because I had a suspicion is was doing more damage than good.
I have tried many methods and ultimately only recently felt safe doing profiles due to the nagging doubt that has been growing now for six months or so.
Basically I have generated loads of "safe" backlinks with Xrumer over time by careful posting using covert techniques and still I have seen many domains lose PR and even some banned from the big G.
When I say "careful" I don't believe you could use Xrumer any less provocatively than I have...
So long story short I hve been doing other things I felt were safer... SB, BMD, RSS, Angela & Paul, etc...
PROOF MY FEARS ARE REAL ????
Here's the thing that is making me make this post:
Today I found an old BHW post I had commented on a while back but thought no more of it.
The post was about xrumerunleashed.com (which I believe is something belonging to some members here so it would be good to hear what they say to this post) a video course by some Xrumer "gurus" about getting the most out of Xrumer...
So I was sitting thinking that maybe I just got my Xrumer campaigns wrong and that maybe I should invest in this course...
Then it came to me clearly that if these guys really knew how to get the most out of Xrumer then their domain should rank highly right ?
So I looked up http://www.xrumerunleashed.com and saw it has a PR 4 which is not too shabby...
THEN
I did a backlink lookup on Yahoo...
They only have 256 backlinks !!!
Not so many and that is strange considering that Xrumer can generate gazillions in no time at all if unleashed in anger!
Most of the links they do have are true Xrumer footprint links in forums (very easy to recognise if you know Xrumer and that could be a clue!) and when I went to check them most of them are actually deleted...
The fact is though that the ones that are still live all have the same anchor text: "Blackhat SEO" as you can see in this typical example:
http://azd.ro/forum/archive/index.php/thread-26061.html
So I cracked up MS and SEO Elite to check it out further...
Long story short is they rank nowhere even with their PR4!!!
When I say "nowhere" I mean NOWHERE... not in the top 1,000 results! Zero...Zilch... NADA!
Google still has them in the index (site:xrumerunleashed.com) but only with 2 pages which is a bit weird if they are penalizing the site...
There are only 25 links in Google (link:xrumerunleashed.com) and most of those from ******** (which I suspect is also their domain).
Anyway you see my point?
Here are two Xrumer "gurus" who obviously have blasted their site using their tool of choice and yet they rank nowhere for their preferred key phrase!
I am inclined to believe my "gut feeeling" and that says Xrumer doesn't work anymore and that it is worse than that and it actually has a negative effect on your sites when used
I'd love for someone to prove my fear wrong ?
Anybody got anything to add that might shed more light on this?
How can 2 experts in Xrumer use NOT rank for their preferred Key Phrase IF Xrumer actually does what it says on the tin ?
Big can of worms is now open.... "INCOMING" !!!
I am ducking right now!
Anyone???
:behindsof
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