Looking for feedback on Scrapebox
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Hello,
I have been doing some research this morning and have come across Scrapebox, does anybody use them? What do people think of the comment poster?
Thank you.
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Scrapebox is a great tool. You can use it to do white hat link building by using it in the research phase of link building. It allows you to find hundreds or thousands of potential websites using search engine commands, check if those sites are indexed in Google, and export into a .txt file or excel spreadsheet.
Personally I love using it, because it saves me a ton of time by automating certain aspects of keyword research and outreach target research within specific niche's. If you're using it for just automated blog comments, then you're using a tiny fraction of that tool. Yes you can do blog comments in mass quantities if you want, but that's not the real benefit of a tool like that.
Google "How to use scrapebox" and you'll find a ton of resources how to really use that tool, like Neil Patel's write up here - https://www.quicksprout.com/the-advanced-guide-to-link-building-chapter-8/
It's also a lifetime subscription where you'll always be able to get the most recent updates, so it's well worth the price.
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That's great thank you for your response.
I thought that might be the case, the websites that I was on this morning were raving about it and I thought I would check before I looked into it further.
Thanks again.
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Hi,
No experience here with Scrapebox, but if your goal with this is link acquisition, don't. Any link that is acquired that easily is more likely to hurt your efforts than help. You really don't want to have to undo any of that work, and you certainly don't want to have to explain to your client that their site is suffering from automated blog comments.
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