Does xrumer still work
I thought any links that comes from
Domain.com/forum/ is useless.
This is False and I know it for a fact. No link is disregarded, even blog comments. Emm, not sure If I should share this here..
But basically all google see is pages. As long as it can see it, then its a page. Now it needs to measure its power. Power is The Power of its Backlinks divided by Number of Out Links. Now what makes it complex, is the power of its backlinks has same equation and it goes for infinite.
This is why and Orphan page on Forbes isn't worth much compared to a link on medium website homepage.
Now when you look at most forum pages, yeah, the forum has millions of pages, but rarely gets any backlinks. In this case, number of pages is a negative as they spread the website juice too thin. So, yeah, backlinks is counted but has no weight.
For blog comments its a different story, you might have a strong page, but it has thousands of comments which means thousands of it links. Again, no juice is there.
Now look at reddit and quora why they rank high in serps while forums not. Because they have strict outlinking policy. They will ban you for trying to build backlink and They do get tons of backlinks. Because, you are linking to your channel, so, they get a lot of juice and keep it within their domain.
Finally, relevancy, content and link placement are considered as supplements. If you have them, you multiply your link power by some factor, if you don't, you get the raw power.
This is why I keep asking Sam here about the sheer power of his backlinks against his opponent forum links. With enough sheer power, you should be able to destroy any relevancy metric. But looks like in this case, he had to match his opponent link profile to outrank him. Reminds me of Ahrefs Backlink Checker Weird Case.
And no, xrummer is useless, because any decent forum with decent link juice wouldn't let automated tool post on them. And if it did, it will get tens of thousands of spam links daily, which again will dilute its Power. So, its like shotting yourself in the foot.
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