Can you provide some more info about Sape, how it works and how they protect against Google finding out?
I checked online and the only info about it (including on Youtube) is in Russian. I speak 3 languages, but not Russian.
Please explain.
Also, please advise why your infographic says, "Use these links with caution." I suspect it has to do with the whole nuclear reactor theme, but that's where you got my guard up.
Sape is a link exchange network that has it's origins in the Runet (Russian language internet). It was started in 2006. The name Sape is derived from the French word ‘saper’ or ‘mattock’ in English, which was used in XVI-XIX centuries to destroy defences and to overcome ramparts. This is the philosophy behind Sape in regards to the search engines. In February 2011, led by Constantine Leonovich - Sape announced the service for placement of elements and links on a constant basis.
Sape is one of the the best markets for buying and selling non-sitewide links. The service can be used for optimising not only Russian sites for Yandex.ru but websites in any other languages. The Sape link exchange network is extremely powerful and is 100% Penguin safe and very much capable of ranking your site in the top ten results.
The huge potential of this SEO method is well known in Eastern Europe. It is now becoming known to the rest of the world – causing Matt Cutts to tweet about it. This has caused many people to fear using Sape. At present more than 500 000 users and 650 000 websites are registered in the system.
You can place links on both the main and inner web pages. It allows webmasters to make money from their sites and search engine optimisers to rank their sites in the search engines. According to the official statistics, the number of web sites available for you to buy links on, are more than 627 thousand, and the webpages – more than 504 million.
Webmasters determine the price for links to be placed on their site. Sape makes the selection process easier by providing functions for the SEOer's to find the right sites to place their links on according to their preferred criteria. Sape facilitates this process through their system Sapient Solutions. They receive a cut of the fees for doing so.
There are three ways to select sites. Manually – which is what we do, automatically and semi-automatically. We will be using the semi – automatic and automatic features in our new product offerings for the mass low end links – what we like to call SAPAM.
Here is a link to the new product offerings:
Home | Nuclear Linkage. You can buy from the site or wait till they are available on Wickedfire in the next sales thread - no discounts though.
Most keywords enter the top 100 within 2 weeks of link placement. The reason why I give a warning is that if your site appears on page one out of nowhere for a very competitive keyword – it might get a manual review. If they see that it's a 1 week old site with garbled content then you can get de-indexed. Having said that, I am doing a case study on a brand new site (less then 2 weeks old) with a redirect to a CPA offer – it has been less than a week and it is at number 13 on google.com for “payday loans” and still climbing. This is a burn and churn project to illustrate the power of these links. I don't recommend this unless you are comfortable with this modus operandi.
As far as safety goes it is relatively safe as I will be drip-feeding the links. These links are also high authority and are maintained by real people. So they don't show up as spammy links. Yandex (Googles competitor in Russia) have known about Sape for a long time now but have not been able to do anything about it and I don't for-see Google being able to do anything about it either – not in the near future anyway. Google to my knowledge have known about this network for a while as well. As far as I can see the most they can do is de-value the sites – not de-index them which is a very different thing, but never say never. In the mean while, if they come across your site and it doesn't adhere to the panda/penguin guidelines then you are asking for trouble anyway.
If you want to be on the safe side – we recommend you use buffer sites. The warning is mostly for those that are going after the big money keywords or managing client sites. If you're ranking number 1 for “purple covers for persian cats” than not a problem. Just makes sure your on-page seo is good, have unique content and you should be fine – you won't be needing a lot of links anyway. If you are going for the big fish without protection then make sure your house is in order and you have a strong backlink profile – the links I choose from Sape will only add to your authority.
