mechleader
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- Nov 12, 2016
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What exactly are SAPE links? What are they used for? Are they dangerous for authority sites? Good for Churn and burn?
They aren't necessarilly hacked, but here and there they are.
Some people still swear on them and unless you really really really know what you are doing, I wouldn't touch them.
I had been using them for 2 years and in the past year I could never make them work. So as you see, I apparently have no idea what I am doing with Sape either, so you should really avoid this type of links.
I still think they don't do shit lately. Non contextual links, off topic niche relevancy, bad words in neighbourhood. More trouble than it's worth. Focus on other types of links, especially if you are new. These is no magic ranking stuff.
Most are. I don't imagine any sane webmaster who shall sell that type of links from his pages.Can someone verify, they're basically hacked sites with your link inserted?
It would be interesting to hear the thoughts of any sape resellers here such as @babypar
You can't just rely on Sapes own filters, if you go in and blindly buy links, you are asking for trouble. Even the metrics that they show within the Sape control panel cannot be trusted. What I do is scrape all possible links based on my criteria e.g. English sites, low OBL, within my price range. I get a few thousand of matching links, then I throw them through my own metrics checker and store them in my DB. This gives me current metrics and an easy way to select sites which match my clients requirements.SAPE were super effective several years back, they can work now but you need to be buying the good links.
Use them on your own churn & burn sites and you'll be able to monitor the results.
Don't risk clients sites though, especially if you're having to ask what they are.
In my experience niche related links are less important, we used to go after links on niche related sites but realised once the metrics are good, the ranking will come. We tested niche related and non-niche related - we actually found non-niche related worked best, my guess is that with niche related you are restricting the number of target sites and so you have more sites to choose from and better metrics for non-niche sites. For my own sites, I ignore the niche of the target site. I do have filters to exclude the obvious sites - porn, viagra etc.How about niche Relevant SAPE links? Also watching anchor ratios? Is it possible to ride the lightning? Obviously very difficult not to just get deindexed, with loads of anecdotes in this thread.
Lol I'm still learning how to rank my own sites, no clients.