azureshian
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- Oct 28, 2023
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I have a habit of purchasing Tier 2 links to strengthen post links. So far, I’ve only bought from members on BlackHatWorld. However, following the spirit of an engineer’s experiment, I recently purchased Tier 2 links from Fiverr, sourcing them from different sellers separately.
Interestingly, despite differences in pricing and service packages among the five sellers, the final results had one common characteristic: the IPs always started with 104 or 172. In other words, the Cloudflare coverage was nearly 100%.
I also designed a small tool to help evaluate the quality of Tier 2 sellers' results. At the end of this article, I'll provide the link for those interested, which can be copied to Google Drive.
In the first spreadsheet tab, paste the full URLs of the Tier 2 links you received into column A. If you purchased from Fiverr, you might get between 3,000 to 100,000 links, but there's no need to paste all of them, as execution time would be too long. Copying the first 500 URLs should be sufficient.
Next, click on [Apps Script], then select [Start], as shown in the image below.
Once the execution is complete, you will notice that columns B, C, and D are automatically populated.
The key point is the chart below. Switch to the [double_counting] tab, and you will see the repetition count for each IP group.
The image below shows the report generated from Fiverr Tier 2 links.
The image below shows the report generated from a BlackHatWorld seller.
You can see that there is a noticeable difference in quality. Imagine having 50 domains linking back to your article, but all 50 domains share the same IP address—this raises concerns about diversity and effectiveness.
There are many Tier 2 sellers on BlackHatWorld, and I haven’t purchased from all of them. I’m only sharing my observations based on the case above, which was purchased from @Steptoe . If I gather more cases in the future, I will share them as well.
Below is the link to the spreadsheet. Feel free to use it if needed:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ts8sGeBT76l19IbsDuh8lmkWn38-4NRLL8_u96kuZOY/copy
Interestingly, despite differences in pricing and service packages among the five sellers, the final results had one common characteristic: the IPs always started with 104 or 172. In other words, the Cloudflare coverage was nearly 100%.
I also designed a small tool to help evaluate the quality of Tier 2 sellers' results. At the end of this article, I'll provide the link for those interested, which can be copied to Google Drive.
In the first spreadsheet tab, paste the full URLs of the Tier 2 links you received into column A. If you purchased from Fiverr, you might get between 3,000 to 100,000 links, but there's no need to paste all of them, as execution time would be too long. Copying the first 500 URLs should be sufficient.
Next, click on [Apps Script], then select [Start], as shown in the image below.
Once the execution is complete, you will notice that columns B, C, and D are automatically populated.
The key point is the chart below. Switch to the [double_counting] tab, and you will see the repetition count for each IP group.
The image below shows the report generated from Fiverr Tier 2 links.
The image below shows the report generated from a BlackHatWorld seller.
You can see that there is a noticeable difference in quality. Imagine having 50 domains linking back to your article, but all 50 domains share the same IP address—this raises concerns about diversity and effectiveness.
There are many Tier 2 sellers on BlackHatWorld, and I haven’t purchased from all of them. I’m only sharing my observations based on the case above, which was purchased from @Steptoe . If I gather more cases in the future, I will share them as well.
Below is the link to the spreadsheet. Feel free to use it if needed:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ts8sGeBT76l19IbsDuh8lmkWn38-4NRLL8_u96kuZOY/copy
