is it becoming harder to get backlinks?

is it becoming harder to get backlinks?

Sure, I think the quality backlinks are much harder to come by than they used to be. Finding the relevant websites seems to be a lot more difficult these days.

You mean free backlinks right, yes, it is.

Easy backlinks are everywhere but genuinely relevant, authoritative links are much harder to earn.

Most of the new websites never show up in SERPs, so the visibility is almost zero. Most of the established sites prefer to give backlinks only to high authority sites unless your site is a source of information. Most of the webmasters ignore emails seeking backlinks. So, the chances of getting white hat backlinks are negligible.

If you are looking for black hat backlinks, then sorting link providers based on quality, long-term value, and relevance is a tedious task. What makes things even worse is the lack of credible sources that point us to the right direction. So, you need to do your own research and can't rely on AI tools like chatgpt.

Simple answer: No.

I think it's not harder, just different.

Yeah, quality backlinks seem harder to earn than before. More sites are selective, and generic outreach gets ignored. Relevant, genuinely useful content and personalized outreach seem to work much better than mass link-building.

times change, so does the quality and ability to earn them