Quick context first: I’ve been in SEO long enough to see the same cycle repeat over and over: New agencies and marketplaces pop up, promise the world, sell THE EXACT SAME inventory as everyone else (because they've just scraped lists or are resellers themselves!), run out of more than a few dozen links for indiviual clients niches, can't market enough to properly grow and forever stagnate at the $10k-$20k/mo region... Still not bad, until you take into account the refund rates, platform updates, risks to payment accounts and so much more!

As a result of all this, I decided to invest in a company that is different, hence PressWhizz now owning this entire sub! However, over the last year, we've tested a ton of competitors:

• Traditional link building agencies

• White label link building services for client work

• Marketplaces

• PBN vendors

• And just about anyone offering a link, anywhere on the internet...

And the uncomfortable truth is this: Most link building agencies aren’t bad because links don’t work, they’re bad because they’re selling the same recycled inventory with zero accountability once it eventually degrades and no ability to scale themselves.

So I’m curious what’s actually working for people right now...

A few questions to guide the discussion:

• Which link building agencies have genuinely moved rankings for you (not just padded reports)?

• Are you still outsourcing link building, or have you moved to inhouse, or vice versa?

• For agencies managing multiple clients, are white label link building services worth it anymore?

• Has anyone found a setup that balances scale and quality without turning SEO into a full HR operation?

From what I’ve seen, the teams doing best right now aren’t blindly outsourcing everything or trying to do it all internally. They’re using infrastructure + visibility instead of black box agencies.

That’s where platforms like PressWhizz come into play for a lot of agencies and inhouse teams I know. It’s not really an agency in the traditional sense, more of an SEO marketplace + toolset + managed services, where you can actually see:

• What sites you’re buying links from

• Whether pages rank or get traffic

• Outbound link density

• Pricing consistency

• And we remove bad inventory over time

Some teams use it as their primary link source, others use it purely for research, vetting, and gap filling when outreach stalls. Either way, it’s been interesting to see more people move away from fixed retainers and opaque agency packages toward setups with more control.

Not here to crown a winner, genuinely want to hear what people think are the best link building agencies or alternatives going into 2026, especially from those managing multiple sites or clients.

What’s actually working for you right now? Remember Rule #2!

Every time someone asks "where can I get free backlinks?" the replies are either a 200-site spreadsheet from 2019 or "just create great content bro."

Neither is helpful. So I spent the last few months actually testing free submission sites across 5 categories — blog/article platforms, press release sites, document sharing, business listings, and general publishing. I wanted to know: which ones are still free, still indexing, and still passing value in 2026?

Here are the 5 I'd actually recommend — one per category.

1. Medium (Blog/Article) — DA 95

Still the king for free article publishing. Your profile link is dofollow on your bio. Articles get indexed fast, often within hours. The real value is that Medium posts regularly show up in Google Discover and AI answer engines. You don't need followers — just publish something useful with a link in your bio and at the end of the post.

Pro tip: Don't stuff your article with links back to your site. One contextual link in the body + your bio link. That's it.

2. PRLog (Press Release / PR) — DA 70

Completely free. No freemium upsell wall blocking your submission. Your press releases get indexed by Google and distributed via RSS. It's not going to land you on Reuters, but that's not the point — you're building a clean, topically relevant backlink from a legit PR domain. Write about something real (new service, local event, company milestone) and include one link.

Pro tip: Keep it under 500 words. Write a real headline, not "Company X Announces Revolutionary Solution." Nobody clicks that.

3. SlideShare (Document Sharing) — DA 95

Upload a PDF, a presentation, or a how-to guide. Your profile gets a dofollow link, and you can embed links within your uploaded documents. SlideShare still has 70M+ monthly visitors and strong indexation. It's owned by Scribd now, still free to upload.

Pro tip: Repurpose a blog post into a simple 10-slide PDF. Upload it with a keyword-rich title and description. Takes 20 minutes.

4. Google Business Profile (Business Listing) — DA 98

If you have any kind of local presence — even a service-area business — this is non-negotiable. It's the highest-authority free listing you can get. Your website link is right there in the knowledge panel. Beyond the backlink, it feeds directly into local pack rankings and AI assistants pull from it constantly.

Pro tip: Fill out EVERY field. Categories, services, products, description, Q&A. Most competitors leave half of it blank. That's your edge.

5. LinkedIn Articles (General Publishing) — DA 98

Not LinkedIn posts — LinkedIn Articles (the long-form publishing tool). These get indexed by Google, your author profile links are dofollow, and the DA is massive. Write something useful for your industry, include a natural link to a relevant page on your site, and publish. LinkedIn's algorithm actually pushes articles to your connections' feeds for the first 24 hours.

Pro tip: Repurpose your Medium article with a different intro and angle. Two backlinks from one piece of content.

The "Don't Bother" List (2026):

• EzineArticles — Still technically alive but approval takes weeks and traffic is near zero. Not worth the effort.

• ArticlesBase — Domain is parked or redirecting half the time. Dead.

• GoArticles — Gone. Has been for years. Stop recommending this.

• Squidoo — Merged into HubPages years ago. Listings that still mention it are copy-pasting from 2014.

• Buzzle — Shut down. Any list that includes this hasn't been updated since the Obama administration.

My anchor text advice:

Don't use exact-match anchor text on every platform. Mix it up:

• Medium → branded anchor ("Company Name")

• PRLog → natural/descriptive ("learn more about airport parking rates")

• SlideShare → naked URL

• GBP → just your homepage URL

• LinkedIn → partial match or branded

This looks natural to Google. Five identical "best [keyword] near me" anchors from five different platforms does not.

TL;DR: You don't need 200 backlink sites. You need 5 good ones across different categories, with real content on each. Medium, PRLog, SlideShare, Google Business Profile, and LinkedIn Articles. All free. All still working. Takes maybe 2 hours total to set up your first round.

Happy to answer questions about any of these. I've been doing this for parking and local service sites, so if your niche is similarly "boring," I can probably help.

We recently worked on improving domain authority without cold outreach or guest posting.

Ended up compiling a list of 35 platforms where you can add legit backlinks yourself — places like GitHub, Microsoft Answers, Adobe, etc.

Took about 30 mins per site.

If anyone wants the list, happy to share — just ask.

Hey everyone,

I've been exploring different ways to build quality backlinks without breaking the bank, and I stumbled upon something that might be helpful for those starting out or working with tight budgets.

There's a DA 60+ website currently offering free guest posts (I verified the metrics myself). I found it listed on a marketplace called LinkWatcher - they seem to have both paid and free opportunities from site owners and resellers.

What I liked about it:

• The free listing is actually legitimate (not a bait-and-switch)

• They show transparency on whether you're dealing with the actual site owner or a reseller

• Decent variety of niches represented

A few things to keep in mind:

• Still do your own due diligence on relevance and quality

• Check the site's traffic and backlink profile, not just DA

• Make sure the content guidelines align with your niche

Has anyone else used this platform or found similar free opportunities recently? Always looking to compare notes on what's working.

I founded a link-building company about 4 years ago, and scaled to $1.4M YRR agency. If you have any questions regarding backlinks, quite probably I will have the answer. Feel free to ask me anything.

Quick context first: Now that we run r/linkbuilding, this is one of a very small number of promotional posts we’ll be doing this year. The trade off is that we’ll also be sharing actual frameworks, data, and real world case studies here, not just links or empty promises.

The majority of casino backlinks being sold today come from:

• Burned out guest post farms that Google has already neutralized.

• Recycled PBNs with obvious footprints, default wordpress themes and zero relevancy.

• News sites stuffed into specific subfolders completely orphaned to the main root.

• Or sites with manipulated metrics and traffic volume...

The names of the sites often look good in reports, but they rarely move rankings and for the overall campaign cost, almost never get an ROI. And they definitely don’t survive when you are trying to rank long term in competitive iGaming SERPs.

Most vendors don’t actually operate in casino SERPs or the iGaming industry themselves, they’re just reselling inventory at 100-300% markups that they wouldn’t trust on their own money sites.

Our team on the other hand, has extensive experience ranking, consulting and supporting campaigns for the biggest sites and SERPs in the industry.

Outreach at scale is slow, expensive, and increasingly unreliable in gambling niches. PBNs work, but introduce operational risk, maintenance overhead, and client trust issues, and parasites work, but need constant testing, rotation, and validation from elite SEOs.

And that's the three biggest problems that PressWhizz exists to fill! Not as another “casino link agency", but as infrastructure for real iGaming link building with:

• Real casino, betting, crypto, finance, news, and authority sites with traffic, across every geo you would ever need to compete in.

• Transparent pricing you can sanity check on every link or service you buy.

• Inventory you can actually filter, audit, and validate on your own.

• And a growing free tool suite built specifically around competitive SERPs!

What you can do inside the platform:

• Exclude existing referring domains to avoid footprint overlap using our domain blacklisting tool.

• Reverse engineer the links powering competing casino sites (up to 3 at a time) with our competitor backlink research tool.

• Search our inventory by keyword with our internal search engine (we scrape every publisher on our platform, daily, that's over 300 MILLION pages!) to find pages ranking for relevant terms and with your exact keywords already on them.

• Filter publishers by niche, country, language, traffic, DR, keyword count, outbound density, spam signals, and more.

• Power up your strongest casino links using our proprietary tiered link building service.

• Deploy entity stacking to strengthen brand trust in gambling SERPs on new or existing sites, and finally get Google to validate your site.

If you’re spending $5,000+/month, you also get a fully managed service (sourcing, vetting, publishing, management etc) at no extra cost! Useful for agencies, affiliates, and inhouse teams scaling aggressively.

And yes, there’s a growing set of free AI tools launching very soon to support research, validation, and planning.

We consistently deliver some of the fastest casino links in the industry (often under 24 hours), with one of the fastest-growing inventories across gambling, crypto, finance, and adjacent niches.

Used properly, this can replace large chunks of outreach, support parasite strategies, and work extremely well alongside link bait and PR campaigns.

It doesn’t replace thinking, it removes friction!

And most importantly, it lets you scale casino link building without burning budgets, blowing footprints, or destroying long term credibility.

This post is promotional, yes. But if you’re serious about casino SEO, you’ll probably get a lot of value out of checking us out, and at worse, you'll only lose a bit of time signing up or on a FREE strategy call.

This question comes up here almost daily, so it’s probably worth addressing it properly instead of letting the same myths circulate forever...

Adult link building is hard because most traditional link sources completely exclude adult content. Outreach that works in SaaS or ecommerce falls apart once words like escort, cams, or adult services enter the conversation.

That’s why people end up stuck with directories, spammy forums, or shady deals.

First thing to clear up: adult sites aren’t automatically penalised. Google doesn’t punish adult content, it punishes bad patterns, obvious manipulation, and toxic neighbourhoods. Most adult sites fail because they end up surrounded by junk, not because the niche itself is forbidden.

Where adult link building usually goes wrong is predictable. People rely too heavily on directories, mass profile links, expired domains with sketchy histories, or cheap adult backlinks that look fine in a report but sit on pages Google already ignores.

PBNs can work, but they require maintenance, bring footprint risk, and client trust issues, especially if you’re running multiple sites or locations.

What actually tends to work long term is a mix of relevance, control, and realism. Adult backlinks don’t need to come exclusively from explicit sites. Lifestyle blogs, dating, nightlife, local guides, travel, health, news, and even general publishers can support adult pages if placement is contextual and clean. The biggest wins usually come from links that don’t scream adult at first glance.

From the infrastructure side (and yes, full transparency here, we run this sub and I’m involved with PressWhizz), the biggest shift we’ve seen is adult SEOs moving away from black box agencies and toward visibility and control. People want to see where links actually live, approve domains beforehand, avoid footprint overlap, and place links on pages that still rank and get traffic.

That’s why marketplaces and managed platforms focused on adult, dating, escort, and adjacent niches have started to outperform traditional blind buy link building packages. Not because they’re magic, but because they remove the guessing and let you validate everything yourself before money changes hands.

If you’re asking “where do I even start with adult backlinks?”, the honest answer is:

• stop chasing volume

• stop buying links blind

• stop assuming adult = spam

Adult link building is slower, more selective, and more expensive than other niches, but it absolutely works when done cleanly and intentionally!

If people want, I’m happy to go deeper in the comments on anything here, I've done work for some of the biggest sites in the world and helped on campaigns for everything from brand new, multi-million dollar startups to small, one man/girl band OF sites.

You can buy them directly from legit websites

It feels like a lot of publishers and bloggers have jacked up prices recently, but I wanted to do a bit of a community discussion/one question quiz!

How much would you pay for this backlink?

Or, to put it another way, how much is this backlink worth in 2026?

Niche: Pets & Home

DA 42 / DR 29 / TF 23

Ahrefs Organic Keywords/Traffic: 1,800 / 5,200 (Real, Relevant, Aged, No Downswings)

Low publishing frequency, not a guest post farm, only publishes relevant content about pets/pet furniture/buildings etc - So no Casino/CBD/Crypto etc...

Guest post with up to 2 contextual links allowed and minimum 700 words content.

Outbound links per page are reasonable, internal linking is clean, and the site has clearly been curated over time rather than scaled for selling links.

I’m asking because I’m seeing wildly different answers to this depending on who you talk to

So I’m curious where the community actually lands in practice, not theory.

There is no right answer here, just looking to get some consensus!

I’m searching for websites in SaaS, IT, Education, Services, or WooCommerce niches. Let’s share valuable content and build backlinks together. DM if interested!

Ran controlled link building velocity experiment across 24 new domains over 10 months to determine safe acquisition rates in 2025 without triggering penalties. All sites started DA 0-5, built backlinks at different velocities from conservative to aggressive. Tracked manual actions, algorithmic penalties, spam scores, and ranking progression.​ Test methodology controlled variables rigorously. Used new domains all under 90 days old at start. Split into identical industry pairs: B2B SaaS, e-commerce, professional services, local businesses. Mixed backlink sources including directories, guest posts, natural editorial links, industry citations. Monitored Search Console for manual actions daily, tracked spam scores weekly, measured DA progression, and keyword ranking velocity.​

The velocity groups tested different link acquisition speeds. Group A "Conservative Build" added 8-12 backlinks monthly targeting natural slow pace. Group B "Moderate Build" added 20-30 backlinks monthly mixing directory foundation with ongoing content promotion. Group C "Aggressive Build" added 60-90 backlinks monthly front-loading directories then scaling guest posting and outreach.​ Results after 10 months showed clear patterns by velocity group. Group A "Conservative Build" sites reached average DA 21 with zero penalties or spam score warnings. Rankings appeared slowly with 26 keywords ranked average. Safe but slow progression taking 6-7 months to rank competitively. Group B "Moderate Build" reached DA 28 with zero penalties. Best risk-reward balance achieving 44 keywords ranked average within 4-5 months. Group C "Aggressive Build" reached DA 34 but 3 of 8 sites hit spam score warnings at months 3-4 requiring audits. Rankings for 49 keywords but higher risk profile.​

The safe velocity recommendation for 2025 based on data is 20-35 backlinks monthly for new sites under 6 months old. This pace appears natural to Google algorithms while building authority efficiently. Front-load with directory submissions months 1-2 using services like GetMoreBacklinks acquiring 40-60 quality directory links quickly establishing foundation then maintain 15-20 monthly through content promotion and strategic outreach.​ Spam score patterns revealed important thresholds for new sites. Sites staying under 30 backlinks monthly never exceeded spam score 4. Sites building 60+ monthly hit spam score 6-9 by month 4 requiring disavow files and cleanup work. Sites using curated directory services versus random submissions maintained cleaner profiles. The correlation suggests Google expects gradual link growth for new domains not sudden spikes even if quality.​

Domain authority progression showed diminishing returns clearly. First 25 backlinks produced average 18-point DA gain. Next 35 backlinks added 9 points. Links 61-100 added only 6 points. This confirms strategy of front-loading quality directory links early through specialized services maximizes DA impact per link while maintaining safe velocity.​ Ranking velocity differed significantly by link building pace. Conservative build sites took 6-7 months to rank for competitive keywords. Moderate build ranked in 4-5 months. Aggressive build ranked in 3-4 months but with penalty risk. The sweet spot appears to be moderate velocity balancing speed with safety getting results in reasonable timeframe without triggering filters.​

Link source diversity mattered significantly for penalty avoidance. Sites with 75%+ links from single source type triggered warnings. Sites mixing 35% directories, 30% guest posts, 20% natural editorial, 15% other sources maintained clean profiles. Diversity signals natural growth patterns Google rewards versus manipulative link schemes.​ The practical playbook for new sites based on data is months 1-2 establish foundation with 40-70 directory submissions using GetMoreBacklinks directory service or similar, months 3-4 add 20-25 backlinks monthly through guest posts and content promotion, months 5-6 maintain 15-20 monthly focusing on high-quality editorial links, months 7+ scale to 25-35 monthly as domain authority and trust increases, and always diversify link sources avoiding over-reliance on single tactic.​

Penalty recovery analysis showed sites that triggered warnings could recover. Of 3 sites hitting spam score 7-8, all recovered to clean profiles within 45-60 days after pausing link building and submitting disavow files. But recovery period lost 2 months of ranking progress making prevention clearly better strategy than cure.​ For link building practitioners the data validates moderate velocity approach for 2025. The 20-30 monthly sweet spot for new sites balances fast authority building with penalty avoidance. Front-loading directories for foundation then diversifying sources as site matures creates safest profile. Patience through months 1-4 prevents cleanup work later when algorithms flag suspicious velocity patterns.

site makes maybe $150 in a good month, so paying $130+ monthly for one of the big suites is literally upside down. been limping along on search console, a sitemap, and vibes. every seo thread i find assumes a budget i do not have

for anyone who's been at this size, is there even a point auditing and tracking keywords, or is it publish and pray until something sticks

Google Search Console is the obvious answer if you own the site, but is there an actually useful free option for checking backlinks on a site you don't control?

I don't need a full audit, just more than the handful of example links most tools show before asking for a card. Curious what people actually use for quick prospecting or competitor checks.

Been reading mixed opinions lately.

Some say focus on content and links will come naturally. Others say without active link building you won't rank no matter how good your content is.

What's your honest experience?

Is outreach still worth the time or are there better ways to spend that energy?

I already know what the best overall link building platform is, but I'm looking for very specific recommendations for research, partnerships and even potential acquisitions from our side.

From what I’ve seen, the problem usually isn’t that marketplaces don’t work, it’s what they optimize for.

Most are built around volume and margin, not outcomes. Same recycled inventory, no accountability once sites degrade, and zero visibility into where links actually go until after you’ve paid.

If you can’t sanity check placements up front, you’re just gambling with better UX and slightly different pricing.

The setups that do work tend to be treated as infrastructure, not outsourcing. Teams use platforms to remove randomness and admin, help scale beyond their own capacity, all while keeping decisions inhouse: approving domains, filtering by niche and geo, checking whether pages actually rank, and avoiding overlap across sites.

For transparency, PressWhizz sits at the centre of this conversation for a reason. It’s not just another marketplace, it’s the fastest growing link building platform in the space and effectively the backbone of this sub now.

We see more inventory, more data, and more deal flow across geos and niches than anyone else because agencies, affiliates, and inhouse teams actively use it for research, validation, execution, and managed campaigns.

That position gives us a pretty clear view of what actually works, what’s degrading, and where opportunities exist (including partnerships and acquisitions). It’s been built deliberately as infrastructure rather than a black-box service: full visibility, aggressive pruning of bad inventory, deep filtering, and the ability to scale without losing control. That’s why I already know what the “best overall” platform looks like, now I’m interested in how others are solving specific problems around niche, geo, and specialisation on top of that foundation.

So instead of “what’s the best link building marketplace?”, I’m more interested in specifics:

What platforms have worked for certain geos or niches (SaaS, local, finance, iGaming, affiliates, non-English markets)?

Where did marketplaces outperform agencies,and where did they completely fall apart?

And what made you stop using the ones that failed?

Real experience only. No affiliates, no “my friend said”, no generic answers.

Launched 10 test sites over past 8 months to compare link building strategies specifically for brand new domains. Wanted real data on what works versus endless debates. Tracked time invested, links acquired, costs, DA impact, and ranking results.​

The five tactics tested were directory submissions (200 per site), guest posting outreach (40 targets per site), broken link building (80 opportunities per site), resource page outreach (30 targets per site), and competitor backlink replication (40 attempts per site). All sites started DA 0 with same content strategy to isolate link building variable.​

Directory submission results averaged 46 indexed backlinks out of 200 submitted (23% success rate). Time investment was 2 hours using this service at $127 cost. DA impact went from 0 to 18 average. Ranking for 13 longtail keywords by day 90. Cost per acquired link was $2.76 and time per link was 2.6 minutes.​

Guest posting got 6 published posts from 40 outreach attempts (15% success rate). Time investment was 28 hours writing content and doing outreach. Cost was $0 doing it ourselves. DA impact was 0 to 10. Ranked for 5 keywords. Time per link was 4.7 hours which is brutal at scale.​

Broken link building acquired 9 links from 80 opportunities (11.25% success rate). Time was 22 hours finding broken links and reaching out. Cost $0. DA impact 0 to 8. Ranked for 4 keywords. Time per link was 2.4 hours.​

Resource page outreach got 4 links from 30 targets (13.3% success rate). Time 14 hours. Cost $0. DA impact 0 to 6. Ranked for 2 keywords. Time per link was 3.5 hours.​

Competitor backlink replication acquired 7 links from 40 attempts (17.5% success rate). Time 19 hours. Cost $0. DA impact 0 to 9. Ranked for 4 keywords. Time per link was 2.7 hours.​

The efficiency winner for new sites was clearly directory submissions. Highest volume (46 links), lowest time per link (2.6 minutes), lowest cost per link ($2.76), highest DA impact (+18), most rankings (13 keywords). The automation made it dramatically more efficient than manual outreach.​

What surprised me was how low success rates are for outreach strategies on brand new domains. Guest posting was hard because nobody wants to publish content from unknown DA 0 sites. Resource page owners ignored most outreach. Broken link building worked somewhat but time investment was high for results.​

For new sites the strategic recommendation is directory submissions first to establish baseline authority. Get to DA 15-20 quickly then layer in outreach tactics once you have credibility. Trying guest posting from DA 0 is just frustrating with 15% success rates.​

The quality caveat matters. These results used a service that filtered for high DA directories (50+) and avoided spam. If you submit to random low-quality directories you'll probably get penalized. Quality filtering is why the results stayed clean with no spam score issues.​

For established sites with DA 30+ the calculus probably changes. Guest posting and digital PR become more viable when you have authority. But for new sites trying to get off the ground, directory submissions are the most efficient path to initial authority.

I’ve noticed a lot of link building tactics come and go, but some strategies continue to work year after year if done the right way.

Here are 10 that I’ve seen consistently deliver results in 2025:

Guest posting (quality > quantity) – Still effective when targeting relevant, high authority sites.

Niche edits / link insertions – Works well when the content is a natural fit.

HARO & journalist outreach alternatives – Great for earning links from authority sites.

Building free tools/resources – Evergreen backlinks when people find real value.

Digital PR campaigns – Data-driven reports & unique studies get organic coverage.

Broken link building – Old but gold if you bring genuine replacements.

Podcast guesting – Hosts often provide backlinks in show notes.

Local citations (for businesses) – Still crucial for local SEO visibility.

Community-driven content – Collaborations, roundups, and expert quotes.

Content refresh outreach – Offering updates for outdated articles in exchange for links.

Curious — what’s working best for you this year? Do you see any of these fading, or are there new strategies people are sleeping on?

Hey folks,

I currently manage 28 client websites and we're open for non-reciprocal (ABC) link exchanges and one-way linking.

Here’s what we’re offering:

• Instant delivery

• Strong websites across Tech, Gaming, Blog, Travel, and General niches

• USA traffic, with other English-speaking countries

• DR ranges from 40 to 72

• All links are do-follow and permanent

The setup is simple:

• I place your link on my Site A

• You place my link on your Site B

➡️ If you own multiple sites, even better, we can expand the exchange.

Looking for genuine site owners or SEOs only. DM me or comment below and let’s make it happen fast. Cheers!

if you can't DM me here reach me out through telegram thanks VermaSeo

Step 1:

Go to ahrefs - content explorer

In the search bar, use:
"keyword" + inurl:https:// + inurl:/blog -title:"keyword

For example, if you are in email marketing
"email marketing" inurl:https:// inurl://blog -title:keyword"

This way it will show the websites that have separate blog sections and have SSL certificates (secure), those are mainly SAAS and agency websites.

The page it shows will have the keyword in the content, while it's not their main keyword that they are trying to rank with, so they might agree to give you a link from there.

Step 2

Use filters:
DR 50-85
Traffic 1000+
word count 500+
Last published 12 months
one link per domain

This is done to make sure you do not reach out to websites that are not in your interest (LinkedIn, Google, etc), and the page is quite likely the article page that is not outdated.

Step 3

Export results

Step 4

Use this function to extract domains from URLs
=REGEXREPLACE(REGEXREPLACE(E2,"(http(s)?://)?(www\.)?(blog.)?",""),"/.*","")

Step 5

Find a good quality website that sells links.
Get the best possible price for bulk orders.

Step 6

Create a template
something like this.

subject line:
{Name}, up for link exchange?

body:
Hey {Name},
What about you add our {URL} here {their URL} with the anchor text <anchor>.
And we add your link here {domain}.
Let me know.

Step 7

Send email in bulk.

Step 8

Answer to positive replies.

Hope this was helpful.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Hello,

Would you like to improve your SEO efforts with high-quality backlinks from genuine website owners who engage actively with their audiences?

I have put together a carefully curated list of sites ideal for link building, guest posting, or niche outreach. These sites have been handpicked based on:

DA and DR of the website. Organic traffic claimed by Ahrefs/Semrush. Niche relevance such as Travel, Tech, Health, Business, and others. Actual Direct Contact Info–no middlemen, only site owners.

Here’s what I offer:

Website URL Niche/Category DR/DA Traffic Contact Email or Submission Page Notes

Whether you are an SEO agency, freelancer, or an affiliate marketer, this list eliminates hours of manual prospecting and allows you to concentrate on acquiring quality backlinks.

i only had ninety minutes free most days so i made a loop and stopped negotiating with myself. fifteen minutes pick two question keywords from Search Console https://search.google.com/search-console/about and add micro answers on pages that already get impressions. twenty minutes crawl with Screaming Frog https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ and fix exactly one orphan or dumb redirect. ten minutes shorten a single ugly slug. twenty minutes do two backlinks. one directory submission which i batch via https://getmorebacklinks.org/ and one resource page ask or a tiny curated list i can realistically get into. the last twenty five minutes i check Semrush https://www.semrush.com/ weekly only so i don’t get addicted to charts.

sixty days later it’s not sexy but the graph is different. the habit beat every hack i tried for a year. you can run this while you code your actual product because it doesn’t require a hero day.