Link acquisition tactics
Practical methods for earning or placing links, including broken-link building, competitor backlink replication, outreach, guest posts, partner links, directories, and media requests.
34%
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
- 35
- Updated
Original Xholic analysis
What 50 top Backlinks posts reveal
The conversation presents backlinks as one component of a broader SEO approach that also includes intent-led content, technical work and internal linking. It emphasizes evaluating relevance, traffic and page-level context rather than relying on domain-level metrics alone, while highlighting risks associated with spammy, aggressive or short-lived placements. Posts with media had a higher median all-time score than text-only posts (18.789 versus 7.183).
- Dominant tone
- Positive
- Median score
- 11.4
- Leading format
- Opinion
- Recent posts
- 50%
54% of posts
All-time engagement
42% of posts
Published in 90 days
Conversation map
The themes creators return to
Backlink strategy aligned to content and intent
Combining links with BOFU pages, supporting content, content-gap analysis, technical cleanup, conversion goals, and deliberate allocation across homepage, commercial, and informational URLs.
30%
Link spam, manipulation, and penalties
Risks from PBNs, spam directories, paid-link networks, exact-match anchors, artificial velocity, removed placements, and aggressive tactics that can trigger losses.
26%
Digital PR and linkable assets
Using original research, statistics, tools, calculators, surveys, expert commentary, local stories, and PR campaigns to earn editorial links and brand coverage.
24%
Link quality and evaluation
Assessing relevance, organic traffic, page-level authority, outbound-link density, indexing, placement context, and link longevity rather than relying on DR alone.
20%
Startup listings and launch-platform links
Building early-stage visibility and foundational links through relevant SaaS directories, review platforms, launch sites, communities, and product listings.
16%
Competitor backlink analysis
Reverse engineering competitors’ strongest links, linking domains, traffic-driving pages, content gaps, and placements to identify acquisition opportunities.
14%
Internal linking and link equity distribution
Using site architecture, contextual internal links, hub pages, homepage links, anchor mapping, and redirects to distribute earned authority to priority pages.
14%
Tone and stance
Sentiment Positive leads
Author posture Supportive leads
Performance benchmark
- Median likes
- 31
- Median reposts
- 2
- Median replies
- 6
- Median views
- 2.9K
Posts with media make up 46% of this collection. Their median all-time score is 18.8, compared with 7.18 for text-only posts.
Format mix
- Opinion 42% · score 12.0
- Case Study 28% · score 14.8
- Tutorial 16% · score 12.2
- List 12% · score 13.5
Consensus and debate
Where creators agree, and where they do not
Shared view
Links are discussed alongside broader site and content work
Multiple posts place link building alongside BOFU or commercial content, technical cleanup, conversion-oriented pages and internal-link distribution, rather than discussing links in isolation.
Shared view
Referenceable assets are recurring link-earning ideas
Calculators, generators, surveys, original data and statistics pages recur as proposed assets for attracting citations, links or digital-PR coverage.
Shared view
Page-level evaluation is favored over DR alone
Posts recommend considering the linking page’s organic traffic, referring domains, topical relevance and outbound-link density. Several explicitly prefer a lower-DR site with traffic to a higher-DR site without traffic.
Shared view
Competitor research can surface prospecting opportunities
Posts describe reviewing competitors’ traffic-driving pages, backlink profiles and existing placements to identify content gaps and potential listings or outreach targets.
Open debate
Authority versus relevance as the primary filter
One post argues that authority should take precedence over relevance, while other posts make topical relevance and page-level fit central to link evaluation.
Open debate
Directory volume versus selective listings
One post argues that a high volume of directory listings can move DR. Other posts caution against irrelevant or spammy directories and describe relevant directories as a more selective foundation.
Open debate
Views on paid links and placement durability differ
Some posts describe buying links after internal-link and site improvements. Others warn about low-quality sellers, PBN-style tactics, spam directories and the possibility that paid placements may later be removed.
What performs
Patterns behind standout posts
Content-and-strategy posts were the highest-score outliers
The five reported all-time-score outliers cover converting linked 404 opportunities into content, commercial-page and link allocation strategy, startup listings, and internal-linking or authority advice.
Media posts had a higher median score than text-only posts
Deterministic analytics reports a media median all-time score of 18.789, compared with 7.183 for text-only posts. Twenty-three of 50 posts included media.
Case-study and tutorial formats exceeded the overall median score
The case-study median all-time score was 14.82 and the tutorial median was 12.23, compared with an overall median of 11.42. The cited examples include 404-link recovery, internal-link deployment, placement audits and broken-link workflows.
Statistical standouts
- View standout post 1 Score 202.6 · 17.74× median
- View standout post 2 Score 136.9 · 11.99× median
- View standout post 3 Score 89.7 · 7.85× median
- View standout post 4 Score 87.8 · 7.69× median
- View standout post 5 Score 63.0 · 5.52× 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 📈
@Charles_SEO
2 posts
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3. Joe Davies
@fatjoedavies
2 posts
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4. Flavio Amiel
@fba
2 posts
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5. Hridoy Reh
@hridoyreh
2 posts
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6. ILIAS ISM
@illyism
2 posts
Joe Davies describes a foundation-and-assets approach
Joe Davies’ posts recommend relevant foundational listings, a steady flow of links, linkable assets and digital PR, and caution against sending many direct links to money pages.
Charles Floate emphasizes authority and page-level diligence
Charles Floate argues that authority and links matter in competitive SERPs, while also stating that root-domain DR alone is insufficient for evaluating a prospective placement.
Hridoy Reh shares broken-link outreach workflows
Hridoy Reh’s two posts describe finding dead external references, creating or offering a replacement resource, and contacting the site owner as a no-payment link-building method.
Since the previous snapshot
What changed since Aug 12, 2026
- 70% of the selected posts remained.
- The creator count changed by 0.
- The leading sentiment remained stable.
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 35 creators
Ranked 01–50
- 01
@timsoulo ·
I just discovered a brand new (and totally fascinating) way to come up with content ideas for your blog. It’s your 404 pages. (Stay with me…) 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 “dead.” Turns out — none of it was ever alive. These are all hallucinated URLs from AI-generated articles. 🤯 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. 😅
- 02
@SEOKeval ·
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.
- 03
@seonatia ·
21 sites to get high DR backlinks for your startup: 1. Product Hunt 2. BetaList 3. Crunchbase 4. AngelList 5. G2 6. Capterra 7. GetApp 8. AlternativeTo 9. Slant 10. SaaSHub 11. StackShare 12. Indie Hackers 13. Hacker News (Show HN) 14. Reddit (r/SideProject, r/startups) 15. BetaPage 16. StartupLister 17. Launching Next 18. Startup Buffer 19. Startup Stash 20. Killer Startups 21. F6S
- 04
@noahiglerSEO ·
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.
- 05
@ShubhAgrawal26 ·
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.
- 06
@askOkara ·
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.
- 07
@codyschneider ·
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
- 08
@neilpatel ·
Backlinks used to be enough. They're not anymore. AI models factor in content freshness. Pages older than 18 months without updates are getting passed over in citations, no matter how well they used to perform. A quarterly refresh calendar is one of the cheapest fixes in your marketing stack right now. #SEO #AISearch #DigitalMarketing #ContentStrategy
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- 09
@mehrab_build ·
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. Here’s 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 That’s it. This isn’t complicated. People just overthink it.
- 10
@hridoyreh ·
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...
- 11
@noahiglerSEO ·
Google doesn't rank local businesses by who has the most reviews. I know that sounds wrong. But I watch/help businesses with 50 reviews outrank businesses with 300+ every day. Here's how Google actually decides who shows up first in the Map Pack: There are 3 ranking factors that matter. Most contractors only know about one of them. First is relevance. This is whether Google thinks your business matches what the person searched for. Your primary GBP category is the biggest lever here. If someone searches "ac repair near me" and your category is "HVAC contractor" but your competitor's is "air conditioning repair service"... they have an automatic advantage. Your services list, your website content, and even your business name all feed into relevance too. Second is reputation. This is where reviews live, but it's not JUST reviews. It's also your backlinks, your citations across the web, how long you've been in business, and your review velocity (how many new reviews you're getting per month). A business with 80 reviews getting 10 a month will often outrank a business with 300 reviews getting 1 a month. Google cares about what's happening NOW, not what happened 3 years ago. Third is proximity. This is the one you can't fully control. If your competitor's GBP address is physically closer to the searcher, Google gives them an advantage. You can expand your ranking radius by nailing the first two factors... but you can't beat someone who's a mile closer if everything else is equal. The fix isn't always more reviews (though those help). It's checking your categories, filling out your GBP completely, and being honest about whether your location is working against you.
- 12
@fba ·
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.
- 13
@neilpatel ·
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 ·
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 ·
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...
- 17
@seonatia ·
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. Here’s what backlinks signal to Google: Authority → Are others referencing you? Relevance → Are those sites in your niche? Trust → Are these legitimate websites or spam? So don’t submit your startup to 100 irrelevant sites. Find websites that are actually worth getting links from, and focus on quality.
- 18
@om_patel5 ·
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 ·
You can get backlinks without paying. Here’s a simple SEO Wins method: 1. Install “Check My Links” 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 ·
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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@mehrab_build ·
3rd month working with this client. It's only March 18th and we already added $1,677 MRR. All from SEO and AEO. Here's the exact blueprint 👇 1. Remove toxic AI content If you used AI to bulk-publish blog content, chances are some of it is actively hurting you. Unrelated topics, keywords that have nothing to do with your niche, and outbound links going to other sites in their network. What I do: remove them all and set up 301 redirects to either the homepage or the closest relevant article. 2. Reverse engineer the competitors I want to see exactly what's working in the space before building any strategy. What pages do they have? How are they doing internal linking? What backlinks do they have? This tells me what's already working, so I'm not guessing. 3. Fix technical issues and on-page SEO Doesn't matter how many backlinks you have. If your site has technical issues or poorly written content, you won't rank. Fix the foundation first, then build links. 4. Invest in link building and PR Backlinks are still one of the most important ranking factors. In any semi-competitive niche, you're not getting to the top 3 without them. I get the best links possible, sometimes the exact same ones as competitors, and run PR campaigns every other month. Don't sleep on this. 5. Monitor what's working, constantly My daily routine: Search Console -> what's working and what's not -> Ahrefs -> check competitors SEO is not a one-off game. You need to stay on top of the data, watch your competitors, and keep adjusting.
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@fba ·
Stop buying backlinks before you do these 10 things: • Build internal links with varied anchor text • Fix page speed (a slow site bleeds rankings daily) • Drive traffic from social + email to signal engagement • Add FAQs to capture rich snippets • Create a strategic link from your homepage • Add more H2s based on the rankings you already have • Add schema markup (takes 10 mins, often ignored) • Make your best content accessible from the main menu Do all these first. Then buy backlinks.
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@SEOKeval ·
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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@fatjoedavies ·
Here's how I'm speedrunning SEO campaigns in 2025 (8 steps): 1st fix technical issues – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 crème de la crème links that really move the needle. Needs to be done every 3-6 months. 6th Drop a brand mentions + community mentions combo – 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) – Ensure they’re 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 – 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 ·
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 ·
This is what Assertive acheieved with a culmination of the following: ➟ Moved the client away from a port of Angular/Pre-render w/ Cloudflare workers ➟ Reduction of archived pages with NO GSC or GA4 data in 16+ months, this includes no referral / other source traffic ➟ Shrinkage of 30% of entire site with a cull and clean, redirected around 500 dead URLS that had external links ➟ 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 ➟ Elimination of indexing for non-value URLS (content categories, tags, archives, pagination) with noindex, follow ➟Clean up of non indexed items, over 100k URLS eliminated by converting 404s, 301s, 5xx to HTTP 410 ➟ 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 ➟ Clean up and control of parameters via robots.txt disallow (path matching) with some allows to override URLS with external links ➟ 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 ➟ Revamp of navigation and footer links ➟ Export of GSC + CRAWL Data, higher impression pages with low link counts given lots of new internal links ➟ Anchor map to correct and focus anchors on active pages and to remove anchor utilisation (duplication) ➟ Clean up of crawled currently not indexed pages (still ongoing) ➟ Full render tests & content output analysis ➟ Improvements to content - enhanced author bios, extended credentials, re-format of structured article data, improved UX with jump-to link functionality ➟ Content NLP audits - sampled 100 URLS over Inlinks API, segmented content by author and identified strong/fair/weaker authors and provided guidance / training ➟ Content consolidation - used SEO Stack to find content with a fair/larger amount of keyword overlap, consolidated content with similar query pools ➟ Eliminated some structural cannibalisation between "different themed" pages with the same target theme ➟ 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 ➟ Export of GA4 > Crawl data - looked at PAGE word count vs engagement/time on page, looked for anomalies and weak pages ➟ Set up Microsoft Clarity, looked at typical scroll depth by device (greater impression-share) ➟Some UX improvements on mobile including a floating bottom bar with CTA ➟ Link building - primarily HARO-esque styles of links / Featured links ➟ Link earning - distributed content ➟ Removed old disavow which contained quite a few good domains in ➟ Built links to hub pages to distribute link equity out ➟ SEO testing via SEO Stack
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@JoyanneHawkins ·
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 ·
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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@natiakourdadze ·
How to get high-DR SEO backlinks for your startup 👇 1. Go to getviralseo .com's broken link checker 2. Insert your competitor's URL 3. Now click on "Broken 404 Links" 4. Check Anchor text & backlink sections 5. Reach out to article authors / editors and offer to replace broken links with yours.
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@consumerxai ·
places to get backlinks for your startup (v3): 1. GrowthMentor (DR 72) → marketplace, not a listing → growth mentorship (different use case, not a pure directory) 2. Futurepedia (DR 72) → paid, $197 one-time → ai tools, 400k+ monthly visitors 3. FoundrList (DR 72) → free → founder resources 4. Aura++ (DR 71) → free tier / paid $17-34 → saas, ai, indie launches 5. SideProjectors (DR 70) → free to browse, paid to list for sale → side projects 6. Tiny Startups (DR 69) → free → small/early-stage projects 7. PeerPush (DR 69) → free → ai-driven discovery 8. PitchWall (DR 69) → free → startup pitches 9. TrustMRR (DR 68) → free → mrr transparency, indie credibility 10. Open Tools (DR 68) → paid → saas 10 directories won't move your dr, 70 will. volume beats a single "big" listing 🌾
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@s_chiriac ·
You don’t need $10K to start SEO. You’re just being sold that idea. People pushing it are either selling you backlinks… or pushing some SEO agency. Here’s the truth: Expensive backlinks only make sense when you already have traction. Not when you’re starting from 0. Early stage? You don’t need “authority” yet. You need distribution. What actually works: → getting listed everywhere relevant → building initial backlinks → showing up in search + platforms Quick story 👇 A founder came to me after getting destroyed by “SEO experts”. DR: 14 → 6 Why? → spammy links → bad directories → no strategy We cleaned it up: → removed the junk → submitted to the right directories → gave him a plan He kept going. Now: → DR 42 → real traffic → compounding growth No $10K backlinks. Just consistency. He didn’t stop at submissions. He doubled down with good backlinks + pSEO. People don’t want to hear this… But SEO isn’t about throwing money at links. It’s about doing the right things at the right stage. If someone tells you to spend $10K before you even have traction… That’s not strategy. That’s a sales pitch. 😱
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@gaetano_nyc ·
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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@thinking_slow ·
NEW: we just added "Page type" and "Page category" filters to all our backlink reports in Site Explorer. 🤩 now in a couple of clicks, you can filter to see... - all the LISTICLES you were added to (perfect for 𝚖̶𝚊̶𝚗̶𝚒̶𝚙̶𝚞̶𝚕̶𝚊̶𝚝̶𝚒̶𝚗̶𝚐̶ optimizing your visibility in ChatGPT and AI search) - all the REVIEWS that suddenly mention your company (so you can respond quickly to the good... or the bad) - all the PODCASTS that mention you or your noble founders (great for seeing if you need to fire anyone for sharing trade secrets *cough*) - all the NEWS, RESEARCH and WIKI pages that suddenly picked up your latest killer piece of original research (thanks the BBC 😎 ) - the PAGE CATEGORIES of all your recent backlinks (so you can see if you're strengthening or diluting your topical authority) ...and literally hundreds of other page types and categories. we built a proprietary machine-learning model to generate these categorisations, and we're processing 288M new pages per day! check it out, i'm excited to hear what use cases you find for this 👇
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@TheCoolestCool ·
Most B2B teams optimized for the wrong LinkedIn format. Old playbook: Write long-form Pulse articles for SEO. New reality: Posts are indexed. Posts earn backlinks. Posts drive 9.5M monthly visits from 2.5M ranking keywords. Treat posts like search assets, not feed filler. https://t.co/MSooDzqiey
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@fatjoedavies ·
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 I’ve been in this game, the clearer it’s 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. Here’s 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 won’t 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. Don’t 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, you’re hitting authority signals your competitors aren't. That’s the system, and it hardly ever changes. Foundations Consistency + relevance Link-worthy assets PR to build authority If I could go back, I’d spend less time chasing complicated strategies and more time getting these fundamental principles right.
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@denisyurchak ·
How do you get backlinks if you have 0 audience and 0 network? Hit up local reporters Magazines and newspapers usually have 50+ DR – 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" – 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 – your odds of getting featured are higher with them Find their LinkedIn, X accounts, or emails – 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! 🎉 Here is the reach-out template I used to get featured in my local startup magazines ⬇️
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@asaio87 ·
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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@Matt___Bauer ·
Bootstrapping my own SaaS means stalking YC and the companies they fund to see what they’re doing. There are obvious parts of the YC playbook and less obvious ones. Regarding the latter category I see especially the following rather new hacks/GTM routes emerging: - Launch max - hackernews, producthunt, peerlist, indiehackers, devhunt, YC. All of them. Launch 3 times minimum - Warm outbound - capitalize on the 99% of leads who see your content but don’t come inbound. Scrape who likes your posts on LinkedIn, see if they fit your ICP, then message them - Competitor backlinks - pull your competitor’s strongest backlinks and get yourself listed in the same places. See what article they’ve made and make a better, updated version with more value - Influencers - if you have the money to spare, find 20-30 ugc creators on tiktok/instagram on your niche and ask them to create content for your product. Pay them a fixed fee ($15-$35) plus performance incentives - Spam videos - if you build in public, videos are much better than posts. Also, focus on use cases of your product
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@PassiveSphere ·
"SEO results are unstable and unpredictable" "SEO is a scam" "SEO doesn't send traffic anymore" You're wrong! > my SaaS has been ranking in TOP5 on Google for the keyword with 74,000 monthly searches > it held a stable position for almost 1 YEAR NOW That's free and high-quality traffic that reaches your site daily - I just optimized my SaaS site for targeted keywords and built quality editorial backlinks through Digital PRs in March 2025 You'll never achieve such results without backlinks
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@asaio87 ·
In SEO ideally would have to have backlinks in context and on websites with high DR that have traffic. But that doesn’t mean if your backlink is on a smaller website it won’t 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 ·
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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@therealobsty ·
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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@justin_butlion ·
The number of new directories I see being launched is crazy! They all promise backlinks which is a good hook. I joined one recently and even paid $24 for "premium" listing on the homepage. So far 1 visitor but somehow I got 12 upvotes? My guess is there is some automation doing the occasional voting to make it seem like there is actual activity on the site. It's all a bit of a circle jerk unfortunately.
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@TheCoolestCool ·
If you want backlinks, build what writers NEED to cite. Stats pages earn 4.25x their share of referring domains. 42.1% hit 1,000+ RDs. Fail rate under 50 RDs? Just 5.3%. Compare that to thought leadership with a 44.8% fail rate. Utility scales. Opinion rarely does. https://t.co/su2HlrSTUW
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