MutantAlex
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- Dec 10, 2020
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Had few beers tonight 
, we are celebrating a small win in the office so i am little bit tipsy lol. Pardon my english anyway, i am not a native speaker, so tipsy or not some lines will read funny.. you will get the point.
Go to the white hat section right now and count the threads. "clean backlink profile but still dropped in core update", "crawled not indexed", "are backlinks still worth it". Same threads every update since years, only the usernames change. People cleaning their profile, disavowing, paying native writers, and still dropped. Spam update comes, core update comes, some clean sites go down and some dirty sites go up. Nobody can explain it properly, including Google lol.
This is the main reason i stopped believing in "high quality backlink strategy" as a protection. White hat, black hat, grey hat, whatever practices you follow you are going to get hit one day. I compare it with aging.. you can take anti aging stuff, eat clean, be careful, in the end it depends on the luck and the niche you are in. Some niches google forgive everything, some niches even perfect site get killed. I tested this myself, hired native writers, built clean backlinks profile by hand for one project, some ranked, and it still went down in an update same as my automated sites /link automation. In Google eyes clean or dirty profile dont exist, only what works in that niche this year.
Little background. Started with senuke and magic submitter in 2000s era, then xrumer, scrapebox, now GSA SER, ranker x, money robot with my own scripts (little phython background and now AI). Heavily depend on automation since the beginning and every update people around me panicking and quitting.. i am still here.
So my only suggestion, do not stick to a single project. When i work on a niche i build minimum 3 properties at the same time. Same niche, different domains, different content angle, different link approach. One gets hit, other two carry the income, and the one that got hit usually comes back after next update anyway. With one website you are gambling no matter which hat you wear.
How is this possible for a one man? Because in 2026 everything is automated. Content for the sites comes from AI, nobody can tell the difference if you give proper prompts and a human read. Links come from tools, tiered link building is still working, I build tiers to my buffer sites and leave money site alone (except some old sites where i send filtered links direct). No indexer needed when tier 2 is running. Cost for tier 2 whole month is less than one guest post.
Many times tiered links to a buffer gave me better movement than guest posts i paid $99-300$ for. Paying for a single "high DA" backlink is sometimes complete waste of money, page is not even indexed and nobody will crawl it. Sometimes guest post works great too, depends on the page. For me tiered building wins more often than it loses and it scales to 3 or 5 or 10 sites, guest post budget does not scale.
Set up properly, filter your list hard, decent content, and spread the risk over few sites instead of praying for one.
Anyway thats my 2 cents after too many updates and few beers. There is no white hat or black hat in the end, only the niche and the luck, so automate whatever you are doing and dont put everything on one site. Curious how many sites you guys run per niche.. ok beer number 4 is calling.
, we are celebrating a small win in the office so i am little bit tipsy lol. Pardon my english anyway, i am not a native speaker, so tipsy or not some lines will read funny.. you will get the point.Go to the white hat section right now and count the threads. "clean backlink profile but still dropped in core update", "crawled not indexed", "are backlinks still worth it". Same threads every update since years, only the usernames change. People cleaning their profile, disavowing, paying native writers, and still dropped. Spam update comes, core update comes, some clean sites go down and some dirty sites go up. Nobody can explain it properly, including Google lol.
This is the main reason i stopped believing in "high quality backlink strategy" as a protection. White hat, black hat, grey hat, whatever practices you follow you are going to get hit one day. I compare it with aging.. you can take anti aging stuff, eat clean, be careful, in the end it depends on the luck and the niche you are in. Some niches google forgive everything, some niches even perfect site get killed. I tested this myself, hired native writers, built clean backlinks profile by hand for one project, some ranked, and it still went down in an update same as my automated sites /link automation. In Google eyes clean or dirty profile dont exist, only what works in that niche this year.
Little background. Started with senuke and magic submitter in 2000s era, then xrumer, scrapebox, now GSA SER, ranker x, money robot with my own scripts (little phython background and now AI). Heavily depend on automation since the beginning and every update people around me panicking and quitting.. i am still here.
So my only suggestion, do not stick to a single project. When i work on a niche i build minimum 3 properties at the same time. Same niche, different domains, different content angle, different link approach. One gets hit, other two carry the income, and the one that got hit usually comes back after next update anyway. With one website you are gambling no matter which hat you wear.
How is this possible for a one man? Because in 2026 everything is automated. Content for the sites comes from AI, nobody can tell the difference if you give proper prompts and a human read. Links come from tools, tiered link building is still working, I build tiers to my buffer sites and leave money site alone (except some old sites where i send filtered links direct). No indexer needed when tier 2 is running. Cost for tier 2 whole month is less than one guest post.
Many times tiered links to a buffer gave me better movement than guest posts i paid $99-300$ for. Paying for a single "high DA" backlink is sometimes complete waste of money, page is not even indexed and nobody will crawl it. Sometimes guest post works great too, depends on the page. For me tiered building wins more often than it loses and it scales to 3 or 5 or 10 sites, guest post budget does not scale.
Set up properly, filter your list hard, decent content, and spread the risk over few sites instead of praying for one.
Anyway thats my 2 cents after too many updates and few beers. There is no white hat or black hat in the end, only the niche and the luck, so automate whatever you are doing and dont put everything on one site. Curious how many sites you guys run per niche.. ok beer number 4 is calling.
