Are referral backlinks type still useful today, 2022?

Hi,

I'm considering to pump up my backlinks profile pretty fast with a huge number of referral backlinks (maybe something close to thousands?). When I talk about referral I mean e.g, https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https://www.yoururl.com/
With Google subdomain and TLDs alone I could have a huge number of referral backlinks. There is also Bing, Yahoo, AOL and much more websites I can do something similar.

I see them a way too often on my rivals' or competitors' backlinks profile and they kinda rank well on SERPs. Some say they are only useful to manipulate DA PA on ahrefs and moz or can get a website penalized and receive Google manual action if abused. Well, in effort to increase number of do follow backlinks on my profile. In days like this I think that quantity is better than quality based on latest Google SEO algorithms updates.

referral backlinks are generally seen as a valuable asset. They can help improve your website's visibility and organic search traffic, and can also lead to increased brand awareness and referral traffic.

At best these links are a poor attempt to manipulate DA. They'll offer you no actual SERP benefit

Seobymicheal said:

referral backlinks are generally seen as a valuable asset. They can help improve your website's visibility and organic search traffic, and can also lead to increased brand awareness and referral traffic.

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Absolute bullshit

Those referral links are rubbish. Don't waste your time.
They are used to manipulate DA and confuse rookies but do absolutely nothing in terms of ranking.

cherub said:

At best these links are a poor attempt to manipulate DA. They'll offer you no actual SERP benefit


Absolute bullshit

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Is there some reliable cheap alternative to have thousands backlinks with significant quality in short time? I mean, I already thousands of backlinks, but few sites linking to me. In some sites I have global scope backlink (I mean, the backlink appears in every page on the sites).