Link Profile Strategy & Distribution
Building a natural, diversified link profile across homepages, commercial pages, supporting content, local citations, partners, and relevant directories.
32%
Best tweets about Backlinks
50 Best Tweets About Backlinks (2026)
Explore the best tweets about backlinks, covering link building, digital PR, authority, outreach, analysis, experiments, and sustainable SEO practices.
Evidence-based backlink strategy, link acquisition, digital PR, outreach, analysis, quality, risk, and measurable SEO outcomes.
- Creators
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Original Xholic analysis
What 50 top Backlinks posts reveal
Across 50 tweets, backlink discussion emphasizes relevance, real traffic, editorial context, and diversified distribution over DR-only buying. Posts pair prospecting, linkable assets, and reclamation with warnings about spam, fragile placements, and aggressive tactics. Views differ on whether AI visibility depends more on links and mentions or on content.
- Dominant tone
- Positive
- Median score
- 20.7
- Leading format
- Opinion
- Recent posts
- 48%
44% of posts
All-time engagement
38% of posts
Published in 90 days
Conversation map
The themes creators return to
Backlink Quality & Due Diligence
Assessing link value by topical relevance, real page traffic, editorial context, authority, outbound-link load, and durability rather than DR/DA alone.
30%
Outreach, Guest Posts & Relationships
Running outreach via personalized relationship building, guest contributions, link exchanges, affiliate arrangements, and automated prospecting workflows.
22%
Digital PR & Linkable Assets
Earning editorial links through original data, tools, calculators, surveys, expert commentary, media requests, local press, and digital PR campaigns.
20%
Backlink Prospecting & Competitive Analysis
Finding link prospects through competitor backlink gaps, directories, listicles, partner sites, and publications already citing competitors or AI answers.
12%
Internal Linking & Authority Distribution
Using internal links, site architecture, hub pages, and contextual anchors to distribute earned authority before buying external links.
12%
Broken-Link Building & Link Reclamation
Using broken-link opportunities, dead linked pages, 404 reports, and recreated resources to reclaim or win backlinks.
10%
Local Link Building & Citations},{
Applying backlinks to local SEO through geographically relevant businesses, suppliers, trade partners, chambers, local directories, and local press.
10%
Tone and stance
Sentiment Positive leads
Author posture Supportive leads
Performance benchmark
- Median likes
- 41
- Median reposts
- 3
- Median replies
- 7
- Median views
- 3.6K
Posts with media make up 56% of this collection. Their median all-time score is 20.1, compared with 23.4 for text-only posts.
Format mix
- Opinion 38% Β· score 21.4
- Case Study 26% Β· score 17.8
- Tutorial 24% Β· score 24.1
- List 8% Β· score 12.6
Consensus and debate
Where creators agree, and where they do not
Shared view
Quality beats domain-metric shortcuts
Posts commonly recommend evaluating topical fit, page-level traffic, legitimacy, and outbound-link context instead of relying on DR/DA alone.
Shared view
Diversify link destination and pace
Several posts advocate a steady, diversified distribution of links across homepages, commercial pages, and supporting content rather than concentrating activity on one target.
Shared view
Earn links through useful assets and outreach
Broken-link reclamation, useful resources, media requests, and business relationships are repeatedly presented as ways to earn links beyond purely transactional placements.
Open debate
What drives AI-search visibility is contested
One post argues that trusted-site backlinks and mentions remain central to LLM recommendations, while another says early AI-search citations are driven by content rather than domain reputation.
Open debate
Acquisition tactics range from internal-first to redirects
One view urges exhausting internal-link opportunities before buying backlinks; another proposes expired-domain redirects, while a local-agency post includes citations, local links, and press distribution in a wider service scope.
What performs
Patterns behind standout posts
Outliers span prospecting, reclamation, allocation, and automation
The analytics identifies five score outliers. Their posts include competitor-backlink prospecting, 404-link reclamation, diversified link allocation, and outreach automation.
Outreach theme has the highest median score
Outreach, guest posts, and relationships have the highest theme median all-time score (45.145). Its evidence includes competitor-link prospecting, link exchanges, guest posts, and automated outreach.
Statistical standouts
- View standout post 1 Score 7161.6 Β· 346.64Γ median
- View standout post 2 Score 202.6 Β· 9.8Γ median
- View standout post 3 Score 171.3 Β· 8.29Γ median
- View standout post 4 Score 136.9 Β· 6.63Γ median
- View standout post 5 Score 124.1 Β· 6.01Γ median
Creator landscape
Who shapes this conversation
The five most represented creators account for 20% of the selected posts.
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1. andrei saioc
@asaio87
2 posts
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2. Charles Floate π
@Charles_SEO
2 posts
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3. Cody Schneider
@codyschneider
2 posts
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4. Joe Davies
@fatjoedavies
2 posts
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5. Flavio Amiel
@fba
2 posts
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6. Hridoy Reh
@hridoyreh
2 posts
Charles Floate separates authority from DR
Charles Floate argues that links and authority matter in competitive ranking while cautioning that root-domain DR does not establish the value of a specific linking page.
Hridoy Reh focuses on broken-link replacement
Hridoy Reh describes a broken-link workflow: locate dead external resources, create an updated replacement, and contact the referring site.
How this analysis was made
Themes, sentiment, stance, and post format are classified per tweet. All counts, shares, medians, creator concentration, freshness, and performance comparisons are then calculated directly from the published snapshot.
Xholic's all-time score compares engagement while accounting for reach, post age, and creator consistency. It is used for relative comparisons within this collection.
This report analyzes the exact 50-post snapshot shown below. AI identifies editorial categories and drafts explanations; all statistics are calculated from the snapshot, and every narrative claim is checked against cited posts before publication.
Best Backlinks tweets
Top Backlinks tweets from 37 creators
Ranked 01β50
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@fin465 Β·
in @ycombinator they have a playbook on how to get customers ASAP for your startup. if you follow this, youβll brute force your way to 100 customers, almost no matter what your product is. Here it is: 1/ launch-max. product hunt, hackerNews, devhunt, betalist, peerlist, indie hackers, etc. YC tells you to launch 3 times MINIMUM 2/ pull your competitorβs strongest backlinks and get yourself listed in the same places. whatever article they have listed, you make a better version and ask the site to replace it (or supplement) with yours. 3/ WARM OUTBOUND. Everyone knows about building in public. but you still need to capitalize on the 99% of leads who see your content but donβt come inbound scrape everyone who likes your posts on Linkedin each week, check if they fit your customer profile, and message them. you set this up to fire automatically with @origamichat (i dropped a prompt in the comments) 4/ find 20 to 30 ugc creators on tiktok / instagram in your niche. ask them to create content about your product, ideally from a fresh account. pay them a fixed fee ($15β$30 per video) plus performance incentives ($1k for 1 million views, etc). you can use @sideshift_app (best creators imo) and line up 20+ of these creators in 1 day 5/ when building in public, a video is 10x better than an image/text - spam use cases of ur product on X/Linkedin 6/ figure out where your customers actually spend time. which slack/discord groups are they in? what newsletters do they open? which podcasts and accounts do they follow? pay those people for shoutouts 7/ there's a fresh trend on x basically every week. jump on the relevant ones and fold your product in (like iβm doing right now). To find trends i just use Origami & search βLead Gen/GTM posts that are viral on Xβ to find the best posts every week in my niche Then, I will reply to those, quote tweet them, and use the formats that work myself (thatβs the secret to why my account has high engagement BTW - you can do this too) --------- if you are doing all this every single week and DO NOT GIVE UP (launching, posting demos, contacting new customers) I guarantee you will hit your customer goals. Then the game becomes retention. will be posting 2-3 more growth hacks every single week
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@timsoulo Β·
I just discovered a brand new (and totally fascinating) way to come up with content ideas for your blog. Itβs your 404 pages. (Stay with meβ¦) I randomly checked if Ahrefs Blog had any 404 pages with lots of backlinks pointing at them. And saw hundreds of them.. Wow! I pinged my Head of Content Ryan Law asking why so much of our blog content was now βdead.β Turns out β none of it was ever alive. These are all hallucinated URLs from AI-generated articles. π€― Basically, hundreds of sites have published AI-generated content and never checked whether the links in those articles actually point to real pages. But here's the part that really blew my mind... Most of these hallucinated URLs actually make sense. AI "thinks" we should have articles on: /internal-linking /how-important-are-backlinks /domain-authority /content-decay etc. And... we don't. AI literally found gaps in our content strategy that we missed. So now we're going to publish articles on all these topics and turn hundreds of broken hallucinated links into real backlinks. If you run a blog, go check your 404s right now. You might be sitting on a goldmine of content ideas that AI already "voted" for. (go to Ahrefs' Site Explorer > "Best by links" report > filter by 404 status code) Fun times. π
- 03
@mehrab_build Β·
Noob SEO: Let's target the keyword: "eSIM for travel" To do that, we'll spin up 500 pages, swap out the country name, and change a sentence or two. Pro SEO: We can target "eSIM for travel", but it's a competitive keyword. And it'll take time. Let's give ourselves more opportunities to win and build out additional pages to also target keywords like: - esim for europe travel - esim for asia - best esim for japan Those keywords are more specific, so they'll convert better, and they're easier to rank for. Noob SEO: In terms of content, let's just swap the country name and publish. Pro SEO: Swapped country names isn't content. It's thin pages waiting to get ignored. Use AI to analyze the SERP for each target country. What's ranking? What are people asking? What's the local angle? Then use that data to write pages with genuinely unique content per location. Not just "Best eSIM for Germany" with Germany swapped in. But content that reflects what German travelers care about, which networks matter there, what the local competition looks like. Noob SEO: No need for backlinks. The pages will rank on their own. Pro SEO: Authority is everything in SEO, so don't sleep on link building. Build 10-20 quality links a month, spread across your homepage, pSEO pages, and blog content, so it looks natural and doesn't get you penalized by Google. This is how pSEO needs to be done in 2026 βοΈ
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@SEOKeval Β·
Bad SEO Agency: Let's target the keyword: "pickleball paddles." To do that, we'll publish 10 blog posts a month answering every question users have about pickleball. And then build 5 backlinks a month to the "pickleball paddles" page. Good SEO Agency: We can target "pickleball paddles", but it's a competitive keyword. And it'll take time. Let's give ourselves more opportunities to win and build out additional pages to also target keywords like: - pickleball paddles for beginners - graphite pickleball paddles - fiberglass pickleball paddles Those keywords are more specific, so they'll convert better, and they're easier to rank for. In terms of a content strategy, top-of-funnel keywords do nothing for revenue. Let's do 5 blog posts a month targeting keywords that are lower in the funnel and drive sales: - best pickleball paddles for intermediate players - best pickleball paddles for advanced players - best pickleball paddles under $100 And authority is everything in SEO, so let's go heavy on link building. Lets build 15 links a month, spread across your homepage, sales pages, and blog content, so it looks natural and doesn't get you penalized by Google. This is how SEO needs to be done in 2026.
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@seonatia Β·
Without backlinks, youβre essentially invisible to Google. If building them for your startupβs website feels overwhelming, purchase expired domains: Here's how: β Go to ExpiredDomains .com β Adjust filters based on their niche keywords β Find expired domains with a Domain Authority (DA) of 20-50 β Choose GoDaddy auctions that are ending soon β Buy these domains with backlinks, set up 301 redirects to the primary LP, and significantly boost SEO
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@noahiglerSEO Β·
There's a massive difference between what a $500/month SEO agency does and what a $3,000/month one does. Most business owners don't know what they're actually paying for at either level so here's a transparent breakdown. At $500/month, you're usually getting one person managing 40-60 accounts. The math just doesn't work for anything hands-on at that price point. What that typically looks like: They'll submit your business to some directories. Probably automated through a tool. They might write a blog post or two per month, usually un-edited AI content that could apply to any business in any city. They'll "optimize" your GBP once during onboarding and then barely touch it again. Reporting is usually a templated PDF showing keyword rankings that may or may not drive actual calls. There's no custom strategy. There's no real link building. There's no conversion rate work on your website. There's no ongoing GBP management. Very rarely do they REALLY understand how to rank a GBP. There's no call tracking or lead attribution. It's a system built to service a high volume of clients at a low cost, and the results reflect that. It has it's place. I think for new businesses that can't run this themself (~1 hours per week max), it's not the worst investment. At $3,000/month, the scope changes completely. You're usually getting a dedicated strategist (or a small team) who actually knows your market, your competitors, and your numbers. Here's what that typically includes: Full GBP management: > Categories audited and optimized > Services filled out > Photos uploaded consistently > Posts published weekly > Review responses handled with keywords and locations worked in naturally > Good CTR (low volume) > Pending edits monitored so nobody messes with your listing. Website work: > Service pages built out for every major keyword > Location pages for every suburb in your service area with unique content, not copy and paste with city names swapped > CRO improvements so the traffic you're getting actually converts into calls > Page speed optimization for mobile > Site structure work > Elite internal linking so Google ACTUALLY wants to rank your pages Real link building: > 30-70 real citations indexed > Local backlinks from suppliers, trade partners, chambers of commerce, and industry directories > Press release distribution to get you on news sites > Listicle placements for AI search visibility. Not automated directory spam Content strategy: > Blog posts that target real search queries your customers are typing into Google > FAQ content that feeds into AI search and Google's "Know Before You Go" features > Content that builds topical authority over time > Intentional internal linking to your $$ pages Tracking and attribution: > Unique call tracking numbers for GBP and website so you know exactly where every lead comes from > Monthly reporting that shows actual leads generated, not just rankings > CRM integration when possible so you can tie a dollar amount to every call Ongoing strategy: > Monthly audits of what's working and what's not > Competitor monitoring > Adjusting based on algorithm changes, new Google features, and shifts in your market The $500 agency isn't necessarily scamming you. They're just giving you $500 worth of work. And for most home service businesses trying to grow in a competitive market, that's not enough to move the needle. The question isn't really "which is cheaper." It's "which one actually generates a higher return." If $500/month produces 2 extra leads and $3,000/month produces 30, the more expensive option is the better deal by a wide margin. Not every business needs the $3,000 package on day one. But if you're doing $1-5M in revenue and trying to grow, the difference in what you get at each level is the difference between SEO "not working" and SEO being your best lead source.
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@indexsy Β·
Here's the ONLY local SEO playbook you need in 2026: 1. reviews are 80% of the game on the map pack. not just 50 blank five-star reviews β strong ones, 50-100 words, that mention the service provided and where it happened, ideally answering the questions people ask before they book. but velocity beats volume: someone stacking 6-8 fresh reviews a month will lap you even if you have 100 old ones. google prioritizes recency because it's more relevant. jacky's buddy has a dogwater-tier setup but 333 reviews and his physio clinic is booming purely off that. 2. the exact-match business name cheat code is completely broken right now. tristan and his buddy opened an HVAC-adjacent GBP in houston, did an exact-match DBA, stacked 3 reviews, and landed in the map pack for the keyword in a market where the average competitor has 40-50 reviews. if you're starting a cleaning company don't call it something cute β call it "dallas cleaners." put the keyword in the name and you're playing on easy mode. this has been broken for over a year. 3. your primary GBP category is one of the strongest signals and people screw it up constantly. set to "general contractor" instead of "electrician"? that's why you get no leads. and it's seasonal β an HVAC company with primary category set to "furnace repair" in summer gets crickets because nobody's searching it. switch to "AC repair" when the season flips. if you're not getting leads, check this first. 4. backlinks work differently for local. you don't need crazy metrics β local backlinks from businesses in your city are a strong relevance signal on their own. lafayette business getting links from lafayette sites ranks. if you can't get local links, normal strong backlinks with good metrics still get people into the top three. no secret sauce, just indexsy, get me links, serp ninja, or crawling vendor lists. 5. on-page is simpler than people think. page title gets the parent keyword + city. H1 gets a slight variation. H2/H3 get secondary semantic keywords. front-load the primary keyword in the first 20-25 words of every commercial page. that's basically it. you don't need crazy taxonomy in most markets β keyword in the title, variations in the headers, done. 6. the GSC mining tactic that gives a free boost: scan search console weekly for non-branded keywords ranking above position 10, then work those phrases naturally back into your money pages. people search lazily and ungrammatically, so don't paste word for word β make it sound natural. nice little lift on supplementary keywords. the warning both of them hammered: programmatic blog content is mostly a scam SEOs run to look busy. tristan audited an ABA therapy clinic getting 10,000 views a month β all from "is elon musk autistic" type junk keywords. zero leads. jacky's take: blasting hundreds of blogs a month spikes your impressions in GSC so the agency can say "we did our job," but the actual lead impact is zero to none, and your site gets clapped eventually anyway. the framing that ties it together: the 80% is foundational β do it and you'll rank #1 in any normal town in 2026. the other 20% isn't useless, it's the tiebreaker for when you're in NYC or LA going up against other decent SEOs. boony town = 80% is enough. tier one city = you need the 20% to tip the scale. watch/listen β
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@EXM7777 Β·
i'm tried of gurus selling you bullshit about AI SEO... here's the fastest way to get mentioned in LLMs... and i'm sorry to break it to you... but it's still linkbuilding LLMs are trained on massive text datasets scraped from the internet... which means they "know" your brand based on what high-authority sites say about it if you want ChatGPT or Claude to recommend your product when someone asks "what's the best tool for X?" you need backlinks and mentions from sources the training data respects what LLMs look for: - authority site backlinks (leaders in your industry) - consistent brand mentions in quality content - credible sources linking to your domain your Instagram followers don't matter here... your Reddit posts don't matter that much... what matters is whether trusted publications have written about you so while everyone's trying to "hack AI search"... the answer is the same thing that's worked for 20 years: build real authority, earn real backlinks, get mentioned by real sites - LLMs will pick it up real quick
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@ShubhAgrawal26 Β·
If you're an early stage b2b company in a super competitive space - there's a few mistakes I made I wish you learnt from : 1. Google does not give a shit about you unless you have decent Domain Reputation, and domain reputation is built from great backlinks, not massive content. You probably have legacy players in the space with years of domain reputation, especially above 70 while you're out here getting search impressions, but no real clicks because you have a sub 50 DR. Go invest in backlinking - ensure your G2, Reddit, Captera, Product Hunt, Youtube etc are complete and well crafted. Have enough high quality domains referring back to you. ____ 2. SEO is not even a game worth competing on in the early stages. AI search - getting cited by chatgpt, Claude etc is not influenced by domain reputation , but actual content. Go hard on really high quality bottom of funnel content , listicles, alternative pages, comparison pages etc have a clean schema markup with all details. You will get customers from this a lot faster than you would from non branded organic search.
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@codyschneider Β·
1. how to rank youtube video on youtube title: lead with the exact keyword, keep it under 60 chars β front-load the search term description: put your main keyword in the first 2 sentences, then naturally use 3-5 related terms throughout tags: use your exact keyword, broad category terms, and a few competitor channel names thumbnail: controls CTR, which gates everything else. no one watches what they don't click hook (first 30 sec): determines if watch time is even possible. bad hook = good thumbnail wasted average view duration / retention: the core algo signal. youtube's job is to keep people on youtube, you win by helping it do that publish velocity (first 48hr): seeds the algo with engagement data. youtube uses early performance to decide how wide to push it target "video intent" keywords: google only shows video results for certain queries (how-to, tutorials, reviews, recipes). search your keyword in 2. how to rank youtube videos on google if no videos show in results, don't bother optimizing for it there - title matches google keyword exactly >google reads your youtube title as the page title. match the exact phrase people type into google, not youtube - backlinks to the video URL >embed the video on a blog post, get other sites to link to it. google treats youtube URLs like any other webpage -schema / structured data >if you embed on your own site, add VideoObject schema markup. tells google exactly what the video is about - channel age >older videos with sustained watch time outrank newer ones. google trusts established channels more - click-through from google SERP >if people click your video result and don't bounce back, google reads that as satisfaction
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@profitfounder Β·
How to get your SaaS recommended by AI. With RankingOnAI's Founder @foundertanya. 0:00 - Intro 1:05 - Why founders need SEO 1:58 - AI referrals convert 17x better 2:55 - SEO vs AI SEO 3:59 - Informational queries are dead 5:01 - Bottom of funnel wins 6:08 - Your site or other sites? 7:34 - Backlinks via listicle swaps 9:41 - Free backlinks, no budget 11:03 - Working with affiliate bloggers 13:11 - Using commissions to negotiate 14:10 - Distribb ad 15:22 - Which LLM to optimize for 17:22 - ChatGPT is 70% of LLM traffic 18:27 - Claude users vs ChatGPT users 19:55 - The 6-step LLM citation playbook 22:00 - Creating and publishing content 24:15 - Tracking in Google Analytics 26:29 - Site architecture and crawlability 29:38 - Internal links and topical authority 34:07 - Get cited in 72 hours 35:07 - YouTube as a visibility hack 37:02 - LinkedIn, Medium, and Reddit 39:17 - Top sources LLMs pull from 41:20 - LinkedIn articles vs posts 43:00 - The "domain name reviews" hack 45:40 - Why it's a gray hat tactic 47:36 - Case studies and results 50:11 - EditGPT vs Grammarly 51:26 - Final advice for founders
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@askOkara Β·
how to reverse engineer your competitor's growth: 1. go to your competitor's site. check which pages get the most traffic. those are your content gaps. pick the ones where you can write something better or more specific. 2. open their x account in an incognito tab. x will show you their most liked posts. those kinds of posts worked well for them. create similar content. 3. find their top backlinks and get listed there. 4. meta ads library / google ads transparency center is basically public. you can just type their url, see what kind of ads they're running, and take inspiration from them. 5. search their name on google, go to the videos tab, and it will show you the top videos where youtube creators made content about them. reach out to those youtubers. 6. search their brand on reddit and see what people complain about or praise. drop a helpful comment mentioning your brand if it's relevant. 7. see what kinds of videos are getting traction on tiktok and instagram. copy the hooks.
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@codyschneider Β·
b2b marketing 101 for the consumer founders who needs to get their first revenue before they rage quit and go back to their torture 500 job google ads and facebook ads for top of funnel google ads broad match with conversion event for signup then for paid action look at customer acquisition cost verse customer lifetime value, you need to fine payback period facebook ads test 100+ creative variations per month then email drip nurture educating people how to use the product pixel everyone and remarketing to them FB Google and LinkedIn ads then start building backlinks by submitting to directories or post on txitter for link exchange do guest blog posts (you need site DA40 to make this work well) build generators and calculators for natural link magnets then write bottom of funnel articles about competitor products like how to x, x vs y and x alternative CTAs on these pages to create signups all the traffic is getting pixeled and remarketed to the scrape all target customers emails from apollo use rapid API scraper endpoint with $99 pricing plan if you're /brokeboi.jpg clean emails with million verifier cold email with instantly ai same email list create an industry newsletter, extremely educational, name newsletter different that brand but the newsletter has "brought to you by" section of that you "sponsor" do this for 5 years every day you wake up you do this pay for that country club junior memebership before you turn 35 and realize oh all these people do is real estate and are not interesting to me whatsoever get really good at pilates bc it makes your lower back hurt less decide to build bunker in remote pacific northwest
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@mehrab_build Β·
SEO is the simplest growth channel right now. This site getting 1K clicks/month. I spent ~2 hours a day early on. Then it compounded. Hereβs what actually moved the needle: - Deleted all duplicate AI content - Built 10 BOFU landing pages - Internally linked everything to them - Built backlinks to supporting content - Added a few direct links to the money pages Thatβs it. This isnβt complicated. People just overthink it.
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@hridoyreh Β·
I got 12 quality backlinks for free. The "SEO Wins" hack I used: 1. Find statistics pages in your niche. 2. Check them with a broken link checker. 3. Find the dead sources they reference. 4. Create an updated version on your site. 5. Email the site owner. Only hard work will get you links...
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@fba Β·
Don't buy backlinks. (Not before you've maxed out internal links.) Most founders spend thousands on backlinks while leaving free authority sitting untouched inside their own site. Do this first: - Link your highest-ranking pages to the ones that need a boost - Make every link contextual and keyword-rich - Build one authoritative pillar page that earns links naturally Then (and only then) go buy backlinks. Your wallet and your rankings will thank you.
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@neilpatel Β·
I'm not here to tell you SEO is over. I'm here to tell you the version you've been running is. Search is going answer-first. Ranking #1 isn't enough anymore if AI doesn't trust your brand enough to surface it. Reviews. Forums. Podcasts. Press. Third-party mentions. That's your new link-building. The game didn't end. The rules just changed. #SEO #AIMarketing #GoogleSearch #SearchEngine #ContentMarketing
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@illyism Β·
I just audited a local SEO site that went from 100k/month to 200 visits (-99%) They thought they were "shadowbanned" They weren't. Here's what actually happened: For 3 years they pumped out blog posts, easy keywords, no competition. It worked. 100k+ monthly visitors. But they never built a single backlink to any of those pages. Then the Helpful Content Update hit. AI Overviews rolled out. Reddit and Facebook started ranking for every informational query. Their traffic vanished overnight. Meanwhile, their biggest competitor still ranks for the exact same keywords. The difference? 3-5 backlinks per blog post. That's it. The real kicker: they had 1.5 people full-time doing SEO and didn't know what to do for 6+ months. The lesson isn't "content is dead." It's that content without backlinks is rented space. Google gave it to you for free, and Google took it back. The companies still winning are the ones who built links while the content was ranking, not after it stopped.
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@Charles_SEO Β·
You can write the HIGHEST quality content on the internet and it often ranks absolutely nowhere.. I've seen beautifully written, deeply researched, genuinely useful pages sitting on page 4 with zero traffic, and I've seen AI slop articles on DR80+ sites dominating page 1 for competitive terms. Here's the uncomfortable truth most white hat SEOs won't admit: - Content doesn't rank, pages rank, and pages are ranked by signals, and the strongest signals are authority and links. - A perfectly written page with zero backlinks will lose to a mediocre page with 30 referring domains every single time. - Google's "helpful content" system doesn't actually measure how helpful your content is.. it measures UNHELPFUL content via engagement signals, authority signals, and whether your content matches what's ALREADY ranking. The best content strategy in the world is worthless in competitive SERPs without a distribution and link building strategy to match. I'm not saying content doesn't matter, it obviously does, a LOT, but the industry has overcorrected so hard into "just write better content" that people are ignoring the fact that DISTRIBUTION is the bottleneck, not quality. Write good enough content, spend the rest of your time and money getting it in REAL traffic and long term links, that's how pages actually rank...
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@seonatia Β·
To understand SEO, you first need to know how Google ranks websites. It uses an algorithm that treats the internet like a network of votes. Every link from one website to another is a vote of trust. But not all links are created equal. If 10 random blogs link to you vs. one link from Forbes, that single strong link can matter more. Hereβs what backlinks signal to Google: Authority β Are others referencing you? Relevance β Are those sites in your niche? Trust β Are these legitimate websites or spam? So donβt submit your startup to 100 irrelevant sites. Find websites that are actually worth getting links from, and focus on quality.
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@om_patel5 Β·
i took my startup from 0 to 2.15 million google impressions and 6,000+ clicks in 3 months, purely through seo and gseo everyone thinks seo is dead because ai overviews now sit on top of the results and answer the question before anyone clicks. its not dead. the game just split into two, seo to rank on google, and gseo to get cited inside the ai answers themselves. i did both so heres the exact system. the core idea is to stop writing blog posts one at a time. build a system that produces thousands of pages, each answering one very specific question, powered by data nobody else has. 1\ programmatic seo off my own data my startup sits on a large proprietary dataset. thats the unfair advantage. instead of writing pages by hand, i built templates that turn that data into thousands of unique pages, each targeting one long tail search. > one page per tool, per niche, per problem category, instead of one generic page > every page pulls in real data points so its genuinely useful, not thin filler > this is the exact play zapier and nomadlist used to pull millions of organic visits google doesnt penalize automated pages. it penalizes the "thin" ones. so every page has to carry a real purpose or it doesnt get made. 2\ gseo, getting cited inside the ai answers this is the part almost nobody is doing yet for their own startup. ai overviews and chatgpt/claude/gemini/perplexity are the new "front page", and you want to be the source they pull from, not the site they replace. > structure every page so an ai can lift a clean, quotable answer straight out of it > lead with the actual data, tables and numbers, the stuff a text summary cant fully replicate, so people still click through > get referenced across the web so the models learn to trust and cite your brand as the authority on the topic when the ai answers the question using your data, you win the visibility even on the zero click searches. 3\ reddit as a ranking channel google surfaces reddit threads at the top of results constantly now. so i show up where the exact problem i solve is already being talked about. > find threads where people are complaining about the problem my startup solves > actually help, dont spam, answer the question properly > build real presence in the subreddits my buyers live in so my stuff ranks double duty. it drives direct traffic and plants my brand inside the reddit results google now loves. 4\ domain authority authority isnt one badge you bolt on at the end, its baked into everything. > listed and reviewed on real directories, product hunt, g2, capterra, trustpilot, etc > earned backlinks from people genuinely referencing the data, of course not bought links > consistent "build in public" presence so the brand gets mentioned and linked naturally domain authority lifts every programmatic page along with it which is the compounding part seo in 2026 isnt publishing more ai slop blogs, its building a system, powered by data only you have, that both ranks on google and gets cited by the ai. its slow at first but compounds forever
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@hridoyreh Β·
You can get backlinks without paying. Hereβs a simple SEO Wins method: 1. Install βCheck My Linksβ extension. 2. Find pages with lots of external links. 3. Identify broken or dead links. 4. Reach out to the website owner. 5. Suggest your content as replacement. It is a classic broken link building hack. And it still works surprisingly...
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@Charles_SEO Β·
A DR60 site with 500 organic traffic is worth LESS than a DR30 site with 10,000 monthly visitors, but most SEOs would choose the DR60 link every time without even checking... Here's why DR (and other vanity metrics) lies to you: - DR measures the quantity and quality of backlinks pointing to a ROOT DOMAIN, it tells you nothing about the specific page you're building a link on. - A DR80 site can have individual pages with zero traffic, zero referring domains, and zero authority of their own. - It's far too easy to fake DR and DA, there are literally Fiverr gigs on this... What actually matters is PAGE LEVEL signals: - Does the specific page have organic traffic? (Proves Google trusts it) - Does the page have its own referring domains? - Is the content topically relevant to your site? - How many other outbound links are already on that page? Stop buying links based on DR alone - Always do your due diligence , your results will be 10x, and volatility will reduce massively....
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@fba Β·
Stop buying backlinks before you do these 10 things: β’ Build internal links with varied anchor text β’ Fix page speed (a slow site bleeds rankings daily) β’ Drive traffic from social + email to signal engagement β’ Add FAQs to capture rich snippets β’ Create a strategic link from your homepage β’ Add more H2s based on the rankings you already have β’ Add schema markup (takes 10 mins, often ignored) β’ Make your best content accessible from the main menu Do all these first. Then buy backlinks.
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@SEOKeval Β·
I talked to a guy earlier this year who owned a high-ticket brand and was getting scammed pretty badly by his SEO agency. He'd been working with them for over a year and was paying $10k/month. They built maybe 7 backlinks total. And he saw almost no increase in organic traffic. Once I showed him how little progress had been made, he switched over to me. I ran an audit of the site, and, unsurprisingly, it was a disaster. Numerous 404 errors and broken links. Meta titles not being displayed. Duplicate pages. Low-quality blog content. I fixed all of it. I then optimized each product category page for a target keyword. Improved the content on the product category pages. Published higher-quality blog content. And built 25 backlinks a month. (50% to the homepage and the rest to product category pages and blog content) Since I started in April, organic traffic graph has gone absolutely vertical. This really wasn't that hard to pull off... The strategy is pretty basic, in my opinion. It just goes to show how bad some "SEO agencies" are. Be careful who you hire.
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@semrush Β·
5 Tips to Increase Your Website's Authority: 1. Get Quality Backlinks with Valuable Content 2. Optimize Your Content for Relevant Keywords 3. Develop a Solid Internal Linking Strategy 4. Get Mentions from Across the Web 5. Build an AI-Friendly Content Structure Full breakdown here: https://t.co/WJwG5i83wW.
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@jakezward Β·
We lost sleep over ChatGPT stealing SEO traffic, but what if Google is the real threat? Yesterday, I was reviewing Google results. Scrolled down looking for the organic pages. And kept scrollingβ¦ - 4 text ads (disguised as organic results) - AI Overview summarising the answer - 4 organic results (finally) - 2 MORE text ads Not every results page looks like this today. But if this is the direction, then it's pretty alarming. You spend years building backlinks, optimising your pages, creating supporting content and internal links. You finally crack position 1. And your CTR is ~5%. Buried under ads and an AI Overview that just answered the question for free. But there is a way to future-proof your organic traffic. Youβve got to build authority everywhere, not JUST Google. Search traffic is actually growing year-on-year, it's just fragmented across more places than ever. - Google (ads, AI Overviews, PAA) - AI platforms (ChatGPT, Claude) - Community platforms (Reddit, YouTube) - Social platforms (LinkedIn, X) This obvious shift is the warningβ¦ Winning today means showing up everywhere.
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@fatjoedavies Β·
Here's how I'm speedrunning SEO campaigns in 2025 (8 steps): 1st fix technical issues β This shouldn't be huge consideration unless huge obvious problems. I ensure site is crawlable, fast enough, has all the right tags in place. I do it once then move on. Tech SEO becomes more important if you're dealing with HUGE sites. 2nd fill content gaps β I update existing pages to optimise for already targetted topics, and create new ones to target missing opportunities. I do this once too, using human writers, ensuring super high quality with no 'em dashes' or 'no fluff' BS. 3rd build consistent links β A low but steady flow of blogger outreach and niche edits to the homepage (mostly) and money pages (10-20%). You can do a link gap analysis against competitors, but for the most part I like have my link building team build a nice low amount of mixed authority links, 10-20 links per month, set and forget - but be consistent. 4th build link magnets - Every site should have some link magnets, like an industry calculator, statistics page, or survey (if you have audience/budget). You should get these to rank or even run a low cost PPC campaign to them to build a steady endless flow of earned links. 5th run a digital PR campaign β This is to earn the authority layer of links, the ones my competitors will struggle to get. I use my digital pr team to create unlimited campaigns (most fail, but some hit big) to gain those crΓ¨me de la crΓ¨me links that really move the needle. Needs to be done every 3-6 months. 6th Drop a brand mentions + community mentions combo β With LLMs and AI search I want the brand to show up with positive sentiment in answers. I want the brand to be recommended for their category. So seeding the brand in listicles, reviews and in community discussions (on Reddit/Quora) really helps this. May need to be done every quarter. 7th Local SEO stuff (if applicable) β Ensure theyβre listed in all major local directories if they're a local client. Even if they're national it's still worth doing to get those brand signals. 8th Build a knowledge base β This is a new one I have started recommending. Cover every FAQ, service detail, and product feature to own the conversation in the niche, in LLMs but also search. The more the engine knows about you, the more confident it will be to mention/recommend you. The goal is to build steady movement within weeks, but setting the campaign up for compounding growth over 6-12 months.
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@RoxanaLimban Β·
Reddit is great for SEO, but not because of backlinks. The links are nofollow, and profile links are almost invisible to crawlers. You should use Reddit for traffic and ranking. Reddit is extremely authoritative (Top 500 global), so your posts can outrank your own landing page. It is also one of the best places to get raw feedback and real viral potential. Do not act like a spammer, because Reddit users hate ads. Spend time helping people first without mentioning your product. Once you build karma and trust, you can start sharing it naturally. A good approach is to post something valuable and only share your link if someone asks for it. You can start with communities like r/saas, r/indiehackers, and r/SideProject
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@foley_seo Β·
This is what Assertive acheieved with a culmination of the following: β Moved the client away from a port of Angular/Pre-render w/ Cloudflare workers β Reduction of archived pages with NO GSC or GA4 data in 16+ months, this includes no referral / other source traffic β Shrinkage of 30% of entire site with a cull and clean, redirected around 500 dead URLS that had external links β Moved to NextJS/Netlify, removed scroll JS & button JS events and moved to full content output in DOM using CSS/JS to show/hide content as opposed to JS events β Elimination of indexing for non-value URLS (content categories, tags, archives, pagination) with noindex, follow βClean up of non indexed items, over 100k URLS eliminated by converting 404s, 301s, 5xx to HTTP 410 β Site had a huge amount of dynamically generated URLS (including session ID's believe it or not) where large volume of URLS were canonical childs but Google treated some as canonical parents due to internal/external links β Clean up and control of parameters via robots.txt disallow (path matching) with some allows to override URLS with external links β Changed the navigation to be static, previous NAV headers were in dom but nav sub-items were JS loaded (Event), switched to static nav output β Revamp of navigation and footer links β Export of GSC + CRAWL Data, higher impression pages with low link counts given lots of new internal links β Anchor map to correct and focus anchors on active pages and to remove anchor utilisation (duplication) β Clean up of crawled currently not indexed pages (still ongoing) β Full render tests & content output analysis β Improvements to content - enhanced author bios, extended credentials, re-format of structured article data, improved UX with jump-to link functionality β Content NLP audits - sampled 100 URLS over Inlinks API, segmented content by author and identified strong/fair/weaker authors and provided guidance / training β Content consolidation - used SEO Stack to find content with a fair/larger amount of keyword overlap, consolidated content with similar query pools β Eliminated some structural cannibalisation between "different themed" pages with the same target theme β Bolstered content by re-prioritising content using AlsoAsked + Claude - sample exercise across top 50 pages so client could do some of the work at the same time - basically, re-order content in priority order β Export of GA4 > Crawl data - looked at PAGE word count vs engagement/time on page, looked for anomalies and weak pages β Set up Microsoft Clarity, looked at typical scroll depth by device (greater impression-share) βSome UX improvements on mobile including a floating bottom bar with CTA β Link building - primarily HARO-esque styles of links / Featured links β Link earning - distributed content β Removed old disavow which contained quite a few good domains in β Built links to hub pages to distribute link equity out β SEO testing via SEO Stack
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@JoyanneHawkins Β·
I just published one of several videos talking about the core updates Google has done in the last year and how we are seeing them impact small businesses. Through posts on social media + conferences I have spoken at, I have interacted with a lot of people that have experienced this. I'm currently tracking a couple dozen sites to see when recoveries happen and so far haven't seen anyone recover. My hope is that businesses seeing this will reconsider their link building strategies. The risks of what can happen if Google catches it are exponentially higher than they were a year ago.
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@JoyanneHawkins Β·
We audited a law firm site that got decimated by Google last year after doing some pretty aggressive link building with PBNs and a concept known as "cloud stacking". I have been tracking several sites that are part of the same network to see what happens to them over the next year. Some of them are still on the rise, but this one appears to be crashing hard with the last core update.
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@consumerxai Β·
places to get backlinks for your startup (v3): 1. GrowthMentor (DR 72) β marketplace, not a listing β growth mentorship (different use case, not a pure directory) 2. Futurepedia (DR 72) β paid, $197 one-time β ai tools, 400k+ monthly visitors 3. FoundrList (DR 72) β free β founder resources 4. Aura++ (DR 71) β free tier / paid $17-34 β saas, ai, indie launches 5. SideProjectors (DR 70) β free to browse, paid to list for sale β side projects 6. Tiny Startups (DR 69) β free β small/early-stage projects 7. PeerPush (DR 69) β free β ai-driven discovery 8. PitchWall (DR 69) β free β startup pitches 9. TrustMRR (DR 68) β free β mrr transparency, indie credibility 10. Open Tools (DR 68) β paid β saas 10 directories won't move your dr, 70 will. volume beats a single "big" listing πΎ
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@s_chiriac Β·
You donβt need $10K to start SEO. Youβre just being sold that idea. People pushing it are either selling you backlinksβ¦ or pushing some SEO agency. Hereβs the truth: Expensive backlinks only make sense when you already have traction. Not when youβre starting from 0. Early stage? You donβt need βauthorityβ yet. You need distribution. What actually works: β getting listed everywhere relevant β building initial backlinks β showing up in search + platforms Quick story π A founder came to me after getting destroyed by βSEO expertsβ. DR: 14 β 6 Why? β spammy links β bad directories β no strategy We cleaned it up: β removed the junk β submitted to the right directories β gave him a plan He kept going. Now: β DR 42 β real traffic β compounding growth No $10K backlinks. Just consistency. He didnβt stop at submissions. He doubled down with good backlinks + pSEO. People donβt want to hear thisβ¦ But SEO isnβt about throwing money at links. Itβs about doing the right things at the right stage. If someone tells you to spend $10K before you even have tractionβ¦ Thatβs not strategy. Thatβs a sales pitch. π±
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@gaetano_nyc Β·
There's a dirty little secret behind old school link building or even "seeking inauthentic mentions" that no one is talking about... MOST OF IT GETS REMOVED. In 2024, I worked with a link building company to help me build links for a client. I just opened the old tracking spreadsheet and spot checked how many links were still alive. Just 3/20. Think about that. The content gets updated and the link is also removed a year later. There are many reasons for this. One reason is to "make room" for new links that are getting sold and placed. And sometimes, the page that hosted the link gets removed altogether. I have also noticed some websites like EngageBay have been selling links for years. This happens when content managers want to make money on the side and start selling links under the table. In any case, I think the same will happen with "brand mention" placements. You'll pay for them, a year later the page gets updated, and your brand mention gets removed.
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@hustle_fred Β·
hit 1k clicks in last 3 months from Googleπ Apr - 172 May - 210 June - 370 July - 350 (still loading...) my main strategy is to focus on specific articles instead of promoting everything so i selected a few articles which i believe can have good conversions and i focus on increasing their quality + adding backlinks to them
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@fatjoedavies Β·
17 years of link building in 1 post: When I first got into SEO, I overcomplicated everything. I thought I needed the 'secret formulas', tiered link wheels, or some clever hack to make Google happy. But the longer Iβve been in this game, the clearer itβs become: SEO works when you're a real business, with a brand, doing real marketing. Link building is a supplement. That being said, you don't want to bring a knife to a gun fight. You need to take it seriously to compete. Hereβs the simple link building playbook I recommend everyone. Forget trends, hacks, link pyramids and tiers. Just do this... 1. Start with the basics. Every real business has them: - Press releases when something new happens - Industry and local directory listings - Partner or supplier links These wonβt take you straight to the top, but they solidify your legitimacy. They lay a foundation. It's stuff you should be doing anyway. 2. Add consistency. A handful of guest posts and niche edits each month is enough to give the right relevancy signals. Donβt stress about fancy structures. Just keep it steady, natural, and mostly pointing to your homepage and pages you'd expect to get links. Don't go throwing lots of links at money pages. You can sprinkle a few in, but keep things natural, and allow the authority of your site and internal links to give all your pages ranking power. 3. Create stuff people actually want to link to. This was a big shift for me. Instead of begging for links, build assets: Surveys, calculators, tools, or original data. Things people in your industry want to reference. These links compound over time. In the past I've even ran low budget PPC campaigns to these pages so they show at the top when journos are searching for stats or info. 4. Layer in PR, brand mentions and expert commentary. These require effort, but they are effective. Landing a mention in a major publication (even without a link) builds credibility. And when journalists cite you as an expert, youβre hitting authority signals your competitors aren't. Thatβs the system, and it hardly ever changes. Foundations Consistency + relevance Link-worthy assets PR to build authority If I could go back, Iβd spend less time chasing complicated strategies and more time getting these fundamental principles right.
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@denisyurchak Β·
How do you get backlinks if you have 0 audience and 0 network? Hit up local reporters Magazines and newspapers usually have 50+ DR β even small ones Big outlets are hard to reach, but small local media are always looking for news stories If you are a solo builder, you are already 500x more interesting than what usually hits their desk Package your story well: "Solo local guy building products for global markets, competing with giants" β this sounds super compelling Your priority is local startup magazines, then economic sections of regional newspapers, then local media Find journalists who have written about entrepreneurs and digital products before β your odds of getting featured are higher with them Find their LinkedIn, X accounts, or emails β and hit them up everywhere with a short pitch (template below) Usually, even big journalists have very small social media followings. If you tweet at them, they will see it. Then you normally arrange a 30-minute call, send them your links and pictures, and wait for your article from a high-DR website! π Here is the reach-out template I used to get featured in my local startup magazines β¬οΈ
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@asaio87 Β·
When doing SEO, many are very impatient and want to build backlinks by all means and in a fast way. You guys need to understand one thing: !!! make it look natural !!! always make it look natural do not force things, especially if you have a new website ah, and dont buy backlinks from those people who sell them from a spreadsheet most of those backlinks are shit they make it look like the sites have tons of traffic, but they rank for random terms and you will waste money at best
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@natmiletic Β·
Link building with a $0 budget hits different than link building with $100k. But here's what stays the same across both: β’ Relationships matter more than transactions β’ One great link beats 50 mediocre ones β’ Agencies will burn your money if you don't know what good looks like β’ Guest posts still work (when they're actually good)
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@asaio87 Β·
In SEO ideally would have to have backlinks in context and on websites with high DR that have traffic. But that doesnβt mean if your backlink is on a smaller website it wonβt give out link juice. Just smaller value. Still I would go for websites with traffic and small DR vs no traffic and high DR
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@ramesh_mkumar Β·
50 days building https://t.co/yXeQTX4Cp0 and today i got my first real taste of SEO spam I've been really strict about not letting local businesses or portfolio sites to submit I wanted it to be a place where for indie makers can showcase their products, that's it But today someone found a loophole i didn't think about. they created 8 accounts over 6 hours and used the maker profile bio to drop backlinks for their clients. funeral homes. elevator companies, all Australian. Never submitted a single product. just used the onboarding form as a free backlink machine. Deleted all the accounts, added noindex on profiles with 0 products. The site is growing. people are paying attention now, just not always the people you want.
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@PassiveSphere Β·
Sometimes clients ask why they should invest in Digital PR when they can just buy backlinks from marketplaces The answer is simple: "You cannot buy links from the kind of sites where we earn coverage" And even if you could, a single backlink from those sites would often cost more than an entire Digital PR campaign
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@therealobsty Β·
I found 4 backlinks (DR74 to DR91) in 20 minutes using ChatGPT. No Ahrefs. No Semrush. No cold outreach. Here's the play: 1. Type the prompt you want to rank for into ChatGPT 2. Open every citation 3. Skip competitors - find directories, listicles and niche publications instead 4. Check if they accept submissions (most do) 5. Pay $50-250 or offer a link exchange Every link you build this way does 3 things at once: - Boosts your Google domain authority - Gets your brand in front of real readers - Puts you on a page ChatGPT is already citing This works whether you're an agency, an e-commerce brand, a local business, or a SaaS. The links are right there in the citations, tho most people just never think to look.
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