Free Backlink Data - Popular Niche

eliquid

eliquid

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All the talk about penguin update this last 2 days got me looking thru some data today.

I thought it might be nice to share with you some reports I pulled from Ahrefs and Majestic on the back links of the top 4 currently ranking "Payday Loan" URLs.

I know a lot of you guys do this niche, and lots more are in other niches. I am going to throw this data out there per site, per service and then 1 file of all the links dedup as well.

I am currently running all the links through a checker and once done, can provide you all the type of links they are ( within the checker's limits ). This way if you have tools like Rapebox, Clyde's wiki or SB bomber, Demon, etc you can get the same links these guys have.

I will also be getting an anchor analyses together too for you, but that will come later like the checker file as well.

Comment away, hope this might help someone. Feel free to contribute on the data as well if you can. Currently still coming are the platforms and anchors in a few days. What I would like to have, instead of a ton of thanks, likes, or reps.. is for other people to look at the data and do some shit with it ( excel or other metrics ) and contribute back into this thread with the data they found on this raw list. Again, I will have platforms used and anchors so you can use this in your own link building tools.

*Remember, links are only part of the recipe*



https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7029929/WF research/payday loans/ALL LINKS IN 1 FILE.txt - all links 1 file and dedup


https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7029929/WF research/payday loans/eeginfo.com-ahrefs.utf-8.csv - eeginfo.com ahrefs
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7029929/WF research/payday loans/eeginfo.com-majestic.csv - eeginfo.com majestic

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7029929/WF research/payday loans/paydayloansatonce.com-ahrefs.utf-8.csv - paydayloansatonce.com ahrefs
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7029929/WF research/payday loans/paydayloansatonce.com-majestic.csv - paydayloansatonce.com majestic

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7029929/WF research/payday loans/paydayloansonline1.org-ahrefs.utf-8.csv - paydayloansonline1.org ahrefs
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7029929/WF research/payday loans/paydayloansonline1.org-majestic.csv - paydayloansonline1.org majestic

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7029929/WF research/payday loans/paydayone.com-ahrefs.utf-8.csv - paydayone.com ahrefs
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7029929/WF research/payday loans/paydayone.com-majestic.csv - paydayone.com majestic
 


Some considerations eliquid:

1. Cross domain rel canonicals won't show unless you can get a raw dump of HTML -- injections are important piece of what's going on these days. You probably have some dump age somewhere, so that'd be handy to flip through.
2. Ahrefs and majestic are only catching some of the redirects.
3. Running each URL that registers as a link through safesearch checkers can help to show editorial vs hacked links.
4. Related to #3 getting the type of links is handy, but even more interesting when you look at the specific footprints in versioning that are getting compromised. Older Wordpress and answercms will show up a lot.
5. Language of outbound urls helps to show G's inability to correctly discern theme.

Just some thoughts for you. Good stuff; thanks for kicking it off.
 
avatar33 said:
Why do you even need to do this? Doesn't everybody here know how to use Ahrefs/MajesticSEO?
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Thats like me asking, why do you even need to comment then?

I dont know if this same data is provided free, but I paid for these services and I know a lot of people don't have paid ahrefs or paid majestic account. Since I don't use free accounts, maybe they get this same data for free, no clue.

Anyways, I compiled the top for for this term and put them in dropbox to share the raw data from each service. I then compiled that data into 1 txt file dedup'd.

Based on that, I am going to be giving out anchor data in a sep. file and also any detected platforms for link building as well based off this data. Most people I know and deal with ( from being on this forum and IRL ) don't even take into consideration getting the same links their competitors have or using the same anchor text/distribution their "ranking" competitors have. This alone should be valuable to someone.

Plus, i have asked others who may like to contribute to take this data and put their own spin on it and bring back to this thread as well. Im interested in seeing who does what with this data and what they bring back to the table if they do.
 
Cygnus said:
Some considerations eliquid:

1. Cross domain rel canonicals won't show unless you can get a raw dump of HTML -- injections are important piece of what's going on these days. You probably have some dump age somewhere, so that'd be handy to flip through.
2. Ahrefs and majestic are only catching some of the redirects.
3. Running each URL that registers as a link through safesearch checkers can help to show editorial vs hacked links.
4. Related to #3 getting the type of links is handy, but even more interesting when you look at the specific footprints in versioning that are getting compromised. Older Wordpress and answercms will show up a lot.
5. Language of outbound urls helps to show G's inability to correctly discern theme.

Just some thoughts for you. Good stuff; thanks for kicking it off.
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1. Pulling raw HTML on all these links will be chore, I might leave that to someone else right now.

2. Yeah, knew this. I have Raven, SEMRush, and OSE but they are less reliable then even Majestic and Ahrefs. If you know of any other ways to get this data in bulk and more reliable, please PM me though. Right now I think this is the best we have though.

3. Can you explain safesearch checkers?

4. Yep, right now for platform checkers the market is limited to just 2-3 tools really. I dont think though its gonna show me the version of the platform though, but thats a nice thought too.

5. yep
 
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eliquid said:
1. Pulling raw HTML on all these links will be chore, I might leave that to someone else right now.

2. Yeah, knew this. I have Raven, SEMRush, and OSE but they are less reliable then even Majestic and Ahrefs. If you know of any other ways to get this data in bulk and more reliable, please PM me though. Right now I think this is the best we have though.

3. Can you explain safesearch checkers?

4. Yep, right now for platform checkers the market is limited to just 2-3 tools really. I dont think though its gonna show me the version of the platform though, but thats a nice thought too.

5. yep
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1. Yes the raw HTML is a huge pain.
2. The best way to get the data is by having your own crawler...and e en then you are limited to what you can grab. The hint ill give here is the best way to stay on top of which will show up is to identify and track the footprints to monitor changes (like SB).
3. Avg safe search adds a little bit of load time when you allow it to exist on a browser toolbar. Easy way is to load thousands of tabs to search through the urls and see if avg gets a hit. There are many more elegant ways of course.
4. I actually like reverse engineering via ultimate demon or scrape box for this. Once you teach these things the footprint you can traverse the full list and segment out which footprint matches with which URL.

I know the niche well, so I don't want to say a lot publically other than than the hacking situation is way out of googles control in this niche and they haven't taken credible steps to contain it.
 
avatar33 said:
Why do you even need to do this? Doesn't everybody here know how to use Ahrefs/MajesticSEO?
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eliquid said:
Thats like me asking, why do you even need to comment then?

I dont know if this same data is provided free, but I paid for these services and I know a lot of people don't have paid ahrefs or paid majestic account. Since I don't use free accounts, maybe they get this same data for free, no clue.
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I think maybe the point Avatar is making is that we're pretty much inundated with this kind of data everyday (at least I imagine most of us are).

It's not the data in and of itself that is useful, but what the conclusions and knowledge we can draw from it. It may be as quickly as a few minutes to gain a new insight or it may take hours.

A tip for anyone looking at these, I would analyze these niches with a grain of salt unless quick and dirty is your style. You will find a lot of "crap that works" at the moment but there's no telling who will be the top players months from now.

I will come back later tonight when I have the time to check these out, thanks for posting em.
 
Quit outing my old press release clients bro!

Doesn't matter though, since PRWeb stopped allowing payday loan sites and releases to pass through editorial. Sad days.

Nice to see you're still around and killing it eliquid, I'll ping you on skype sometime to catch up.
 
Look at that site eeginfo ranking for payday loans.. This is relevant too

Many sites I spammed in a particular tiered way about an year back are ranking all over top 15.. I forgot about them months back and now I see them ranking :O
 
Andrew Scherer said:
A tip for anyone looking at these, I would analyze these niches with a grain of salt unless quick and dirty is your style. You will find a lot of "crap that works" at the moment but there's no telling who will be the top players months from now.
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You know, I use to just rank and bank, churn and burn for years in SEO before I heavily got into PPC and Media Buys. To me, finding out loopholes and ranking and banking was OK. Little work, mixed pay offs.. but at least I didnt have huge time sinks and no pay.

Then, about 4 years ago I started to care about longevity in SEO and spent an ass load of time buying new domains, new hosting, paying $XXXX for content, doing guest blogs and white hat shit and doing it by the numbers. I spend somewhere near $40k total on my entire network only to be wiped out after an update and make maybe only $20k of that money back.

I even went into a partnership with one of my old employers for a salary and % of sales cut about 2 years ago. This was an established ecommerce site with lots of history and sales behind. I spend a solid 12 months on it raising their rankings and bringing in sales and dominating the SEO for them with whitehat only links. Month 15 brought in a panda update that killed them and all their rankings. We had legit content, videos, and other resources no other site had in our niche. We got hit though and was off the SERPs for about 6 months which meant a huge drop in sales and also egg all over my face although none of it was my error. I resigned and 1 month later the site came back to the serps ranking #1 again for most terms.. but overall I was looked at like this was all my fault for the ranking and then when I leave it comes back. So how did that make me look?

After that, I was doing some whitehat work for another client of mine as a partner ( he was an off and on again client of mine ) and within 4 months of working for him he ranked top 3 for his terms and then he got hit by penguin same month. When I checked his back link profile I noticed he had a shit ton of links that someone else built for him while I wasnt doing work for him months ago ( he hired this guy on the side ). Because of that fucker, I lost my client because my client went under and couldnt pay me after that.

So here I am now, wondering why the fuck I ever attempted whitehat or long term shit with Google. When shit is done right and better then everyone else, I got shafted on my own sites... when shit was higher quality and informative and excellent, it de-ranked an ecommerce site I was a partner in ( and then brought it back 7 months later after I left ), and when I was doing whitehat for client, a prior SEO'ers fuck up from months ago most likely had him go under and I lost a client from it ( b/c I only did guest post and other legit shit for him ).

All I know with Google is, its a huge risk with long term plays on them where you try your best to have quality with them. Quality takes time and money generally. Sure plenty of people end up ranking with quality once an update happens and puts them on top, most times for me I have seen it also fuck legit people over. If you build a legit site with quality, nothing says you will stay in Google graces months from now. At least with rank and bank I know I will de-rank one day, which is fine b/c it prompts me to keep building more sites so when I do, I am ranking again within a month and making more money.

So right now, im back to rank and bank and churn and burn on my own sites ( wouldnt do this for a client unless they asked me to and understood it ). If I only rank for 4-5 months thats fine, wanna know how much money a top position for Raspberry Ketone makes every day top 3 serps for 5 months? I'll gladly take that money.
 
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Thanks for sharing those reports. The free sub doesn't show 0.1% of those links.
Also, ditto about investing on long term SEO - we just can't and won't control it. For me, you either pay till you bleed for traffic, or crash and run accepting the risk.
 
Neat list, Thanks Eliq. Found a few decent open targets in there that can be easily posted to.
 
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