In recent weeks and months i came across several reports and experiences on webmaster and link building forums about what i call "two tiered" linking.

This seems to be REALLY powerful and i actually saw reports people doing really simple link building and gaining #1 position without a problem

I am not talking about link wheels, i am talking very simple, here are some examples:


*) 50 or so Tier1 (= higher PR/higher quality) profiles linking to money site.
Several thousand Tier2 ("lower quality") profile links linking to the 50 tier 1 links.

*) Article Marketing.
Submit articles w/ link to money site to a few tier 1 (ezine, goarticles, articles etc.) sites and backlink them with hundreds of other articles

*) Article Marketing + Scrapebox
Is supposedly EXTREMELY effective according to reports!

Blast a few hundred articles with AMR, get the links and Xrumer/Scrapebox the hell out of all the article URLs.

You see it's basically a "Link Pyramid" structure (few high quality links backed by many "low quality" links) but the interesting thing is how easy it is to do and doesn't require any fancy planning or super complicated software.

In fact AMR and Scrapebox are already enough to do it.

Would anyone post their experiences using such or similar link techniques?