What really matters for backlinks?

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hifivebaby

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For one campaign, when i look at the thousands of backlinks created by Rankerx, MR, SEOAP, etc,:
- only less than 50 links shown in Semrush & Afrefs
- out of these, more than 90% were Nofollow
- when i checked google with 'site:[URL of backlinks', more than 95% were not indexed.
- this left me with fewer than 5 links that were indexed & ********.
- same situation with other campaigns.

Ai said that backlinks that are not indexed by Google passed no value to moneysite.
Is it a true statement?
I'm not sure if I should quit running these softwares.
 
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be careful about judging campaign by the total number of links those tools create.many of them may never get discovered or indexed and even indexed links dont automatically help rankings.focus more on getting links from relevant site that people actually use rather than relying on software to build thousands of them.
 
Tiger pro said:
I think relevance and link quality matter much more than backlink volume especially when most links come from automated tools
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Absolutely agreed, links are likely to boost the numbers without doing any good to the ranking. I would concentrate on quality websites and actual organic traffic and indexed pages that have already ranked.
 
hifivebaby said:
For one campaign, when i look at the thousands of backlinks created by Rankerx, MR, SEOAP, etc,:
- only less than 50 links shown in Semrush & Afrefs
- out of these, more than 90% were Nofollow
- when i checked google with 'site:[URL of backlinks', more than 95% were not indexed.
- this left me with fewer than 5 links that were indexed & ********.
- same situation with other campaigns.

Ai said that backlinks that are not indexed by Google passed no value to moneysite.
Is it a true statement?
I'm not sure if I should quit running these softwares.
Click to expand...
To tell you the truth, such tools can bring in tens of thousand of links, but if none of them gets indexed or boost your rankings, what’s the point? I would rather watch my progres nd spend my time creating valuable links.
 
Fun_bitesX03 said:
I prefer a few good backlinks over thousands of links that do not help much.
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same here; a few relevant links from pages that have actual traffic could be more valuable than thousands of random links. i would consider the linking page's relevancy and indexing before the DR and number of links.
 
hifivebaby said:
For one campaign, when i look at the thousands of backlinks created by Rankerx, MR, SEOAP, etc,:
- only less than 50 links shown in Semrush & Afrefs
- out of these, more than 90% were Nofollow
- when i checked google with 'site:[URL of backlinks', more than 95% were not indexed.
- this left me with fewer than 5 links that were indexed & ********.
- same situation with other campaigns.

Ai said that backlinks that are not indexed by Google passed no value to moneysite.
Is it a true statement?
I'm not sure if I should quit running these softwares.
Click to expand...
tbh I wouldn't just rely on ahrefs or semrush when trying to measure the effectiveness of a backlink; not all data is provided by them.
what really matters is whether you see any change in rankings/organic traffic after doing such a campaign.
have you done this on multiple websites over some period of time, or do you always get the same results?
 
The AI is right on that one, unindexed links will not move the needle at all. Also ignore Semrush and Ahrefs numbers for automated blasts since their bots only catch a tiny fraction of tier links. If you only got 5 indexed ******** links out of thousands, your target list is burned and your content is probably getting flagged as thin spam.
 
hifivebaby said:
For one campaign, when i look at the thousands of backlinks created by Rankerx, MR, SEOAP, etc,:
- only less than 50 links shown in Semrush & Afrefs
- out of these, more than 90% were Nofollow
- when i checked google with 'site:[URL of backlinks', more than 95% were not indexed.
- this left me with fewer than 5 links that were indexed & ********.
- same situation with other campaigns.

Ai said that backlinks that are not indexed by Google passed no value to moneysite.
Is it a true statement?
I'm not sure if I should quit running these softwares.
Click to expand...

An indexer won't fix that, because Google isn't skipping those pages for lack of discovery, it's skipping them because they're empty. So yeah, treat those links as passing basically nothing.
 
I wouldn’t judge the whole campaign just by checking links with the site operator because Google doesn’t always show every indexed page in those results

Also nofollow links aren’t necessarily useless since they can still bring referral traffic and help people discover your site

I’d focus more on the quality and relevance of the linking websites rather than chasing index counts alone
 
Not being indexed doesn't automatically mean a backlink has zero value, but if most links are low-quality, automated and nofollow, I'd focus on link quality and relevance rather than the total number generated.
 
Tiger pro said:
I think relevance and link quality matter much more than backlink volume especially when most links come from automated tools
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Yes. One should always aim to get higher quality and relevant backlinks if one has the choice to; too many low value and irrelevant backlinks can actually hurt your site/blog.
 
question whether those tools are worth using if most of the links never get picked up by google.a huge backlink count looks good on paper but not mean much if the sites have no relevance or value. put more effort into earning a smaller number of links from real sites in the same niche.
 
honestly the indexed rate is what I track now, not the total count. if your campaign produces 5k links and 40 show in ahrefs, that's under 1% success rate. at that point a few hundred manual placements outperform it easily.
 
In my opinion, relevance matters more than just the number of backlinks.

A link from a relevant website with real traffic can be more valuable than several links from unrelated sites. I'd focus on quality and niche relevance rather than chasing high DR alone.
 
Honestly if thousands of links only leave a handful indexed, I wouldnt keep relying on that software. I rather build fewer links that actually get indexed
 
The quality of the backlink is the most important, so just one backlink from a relevant and quality site can be like gold for your website.
 
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