There has been much discussion about the SEOAP tool in SEO circles around the web as it grows in popularity. A lot of trust and hype always comes with the use of these tools and subsequent link diagrams created with them.
One that is always lacking is the determination of the power of each of the different types of links these tools create. This is a 2 part series of tests by Clint. For this test, we check out SEO AP’s Authority Links feature.
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Test #406 is the authority links. There's 84 created. Same thing. This is exact match. It is the way the software works. You put your domain in there and even get to use exact match as a matter of fact. I put it in the title and the title happens to be the one that gets linked in these but this is the Adobe, the MySpace, Ted, Yelp. All those bigger name sites that you are thinking of.
Again, I would guess because most of the tools that target these these are the ones that John Mueller was talking about saying, "Oh, we're filtering it."
27th submitted to indexer. 31st, #1 and they stayed there. Probably still there. Yes, they're still there. Let me do a search. I want to make sure. It dropped one position since all the updates. I can live with that. That's cool. I think if you notice that if you do the search you see probably a bunch of the backlinks in there to see how I did it. There's some of the backlinks right there.
So, there you go. The backlinks are ranking for the term so that's good. So then, that filtered out clearly and Google is actually ranking those as well.
I did not do any supplemental backlinks so what that means is typically what I'll do is I'll create, say, these links and then build some tier twos to those using maybe GSA or something like that. I didn't do any of that in this one. This is purely just the power of the software and that's pretty good.
I think the ones that I showed last week and combined with these ones they had a decent set of links. You can actually build safely, build smartly because most of them don't use anchor text and pillow and hide a lot of your other stuff.
So, I recommend at least trying the software if you don't want to buy it yourself find someone who's using it ~ maybe a couple of times maybe do that on some test sites or something like that. But I like the stuff. It's pretty good. I'm running it a lot directly to money sites but I'm doing it in a different cool way.