[CASE STUDY] Sending Scrapebox Blasts to Your Money Site

So it's confirmed that negative SEO works? We could all do this to our competitors to derank them? yes/no?

Will follow this case very closely, keep up the work!

Sending 50 000 links with the same keyword is definitely a bad think to do post panda/pinguin.

0scan0 said:

Sending 50 000 links with the same keyword is definitely a bad think to do post panda/pinguin.

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"bad" is too vague, so yes/no we can derank our competitors?

Even though most of us knew it would happen, it is quite interesting to see the steady drop in ranking. This is indeed helpful to newbie and experienced people alike. Bookmarked

Did you guys read the final ranking update?

There was both negative AND positive movement. Make your conclusions accordingly.

i realize that other keywords improved in ranking, but for purposes of de-ranking our competitors, do you all agree that this would work? yes/no? thoughts?

it might also work to remove links to your sites like rip off report, just blast them with as many links as you can for the keyword you want them to NOT APPEAR for, then they disapear, who cares if ripoff report or similar site gets a better ranking for another keyword...

matthewseo said:

i realize that other keywords improved in ranking, but for purposes of de-ranking our competitors, do you all agree that this would work? yes/no? thoughts?

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Not fully, no. In fact, I think you can end up helping them.

The site I tested this on was not very old and the content was incredibly thin, and, even then, I was able to boost my rank for certain keywords.

If your competitor has an old site with tons of content, I think you will ultimately end up helping them.

lol here we go again

One time I asked everyone that was willing to blast my money site and they did I went to the top 1 million sites Alexa ranking almost overnight. It sure seemed to work really good when other people randomly blasted my site and Google never sandboxed it.

dichotomy said:

lol here we go again

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Haha my exact same response.

According to your last Conclusion your 1st keyword is now at 0 position.

would like to see where its ranking currently(today)?

interesting case study. I'm not sure what exactly to make of it though. Perhaps blasting long tails with scrapebox could work?

Very interesting ! I think google will change their algorithms soon.

DutchTrafficService said:

Anyone who is pretending to do anything related to SEO and hasn't done this 'test' himself should stop attempting anything at SEO, this is as basic as it gets, it's one of the first things you do, and also one of the easiest tests.

You people do understand that SEO does not mean fiddling around with some KW optimized article on 1 domain, SEO means testing, testing, testing, more testing, and when you are so goddamn sick of it, you test some more, you buy a few hundred domains and test any possible setup you can think of, *BING* there's your winner, that's SEO...

But keep reading forums and pretend to know anything of SEO....

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There are some post around here that we should read at first login here... or better said forced to read

And this is one of them

azguru said:

FINAL UPDATE

Previously Ranking Keyword: 36 to 0
New Keyword: 0 to 97
Longtail version of Previously Ranking Keyword: 113 to 8


It's been about a month since I started. I will no longer be doing blasts but I have already sent a couple hundred thousands links to the site.In conclusion, it seems that sending Scrapebox blasts to the site can have mixed effects. Chances are, my previously ranking keyword dropped due to an overoptimization penalty because I used only 2 anchors. The competition for that keyword was also way higher then the one I just started to rank for. While these blasts had a negative effect on this keyword, they had a net positive effect on the longtail version of my previously ranking keyword and the blasts also helped my new keyword rank #97 from nowhere.

I took a rather careless approach in executing this. I wasn't trying to rank so much as I was trying to understand the validity of generic negative SEO attempts. Had I used hundreds of anchors as well as inner page URLs, I think the effect would have been completely different. That being said, negative SEO attempts can actually benefit your competitors.

Let's hear some thoughts on everything!

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I used this technique with great result.

Indeed as you notice for your kw this method can get you out of the game some time especially on new websites but I assure you that if you continue to blasts the kw that went to 0 and add some anchor variation and keep the link velocity steady you will see it rising again and higher. Over time those dances will be shorter as time frame and you will start to loose less position and gain more when you come back...

To make this method work I will suggest to use long tail kw in urls and make blast to those url's with those long tail kw as anchor... Of course those long tail kw must contain and be related to the main one.

About the negative SEO indeed using this method, blasting huge amount of backlinks to the competitors, will not work but negative seo involve many other things and a lots of manual work like submitting manual review from websites to G, link removal request of the high value links and things like that.

But negative seo will have no effect if you do not know how to do it and second do it by the book involve a lots of time and money and this resources will be better used to your own website... Second i'm not sure about the long term effect of negative seo.. I don't think will last for long, and third will have no effect on well established websites. If you do not believe choose a kw and try to get down wikipedia but do not come here an complain when you will be broke

As the above comment all this case study should be made sticky... this way many people will stop load the forum with crap theory...

Thank you OP for the time and resources that you consume.

HP.Bryce said:

I see nothing wrong with targeting yahoo/Bing and not giving a damn about Google. Despite lower traffic they tend to provide a higher conversion rate. So, it is all about the strategy and goals established for the campaign.

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agree

AZGuru,

Thank you for this wonderful case study. I will be thanking your profile as well! Can you please provide an update of the effects now that it is 2 months later.

any more changes in serp? This is now 3 months old..

Thanks!

I already do this kind of link building, using a blogspot blog with exact domain.. It does pretty good, at first month, it is ranked on 2nd page, I continue to blast 100 links a day and after 2 months it came up for number 1 spot. But after the recent update, it is nowhere to found.

saber210 said:

any more changes in serp? This is now 3 months old..

Thanks!

I already do this kind of link building, using a blogspot blog with exact domain.. It does pretty good, at first month, it is ranked on 2nd page, I continue to blast 100 links a day and after 2 months it came up for number 1 spot. But after the recent update, it is nowhere to found.

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Keep up with the strategy and also diversify your anchor text, try also to increase your link velocity and it will come back.

This kind of movement are natural when using this technique.

Thank you