Can you audit my backlink creation activity?

Hello everyone,
I want to try to do something that might sound a bit unusual: I'd like to be audited by you. In particular, I'd like to receive an audit on the choices I made during my link building journey.
I believe this could be very useful to this community, since others could learn from my (I assume numerous) mistakes.

Short introduction: on mid-March I launched a new website that's supposed to be a money website. It's about mental health, and it's in Italian. My goal was to rank for some long/medium-tail keyword, start generating decent traffic, and then go to one of my clients (which offers products and services in the healthcare industry) and tell him "Hey, do you want this qualified traffic? Pay me!".

Below are the steps of my journey so far.


Step 1. Setup.
I registered a domain, set up a Wordpress blog, designed a brand Identity, created social media channels, and gave a "professional" look to the whole thing. I even drafted a privacy policy (very tricky when you're dealing with medical data in the EU).


Step 2. Keyword research.
With a paid Semrush plan, I analyzed the 5 most popular Italian websites about mental health, and I identified a shortlist of keywords with decent search volume and medium/low keyword difficulty (at least according to Semrush).
Keyword Volume Keyword Difficulty
#1 22200 9
#2 18100 24
#3 14800 27
#4 12100 16
#5 12100 27


Step 3. Content creation.
I then subscribed to ChatGPT Plus and started generating long articles with ChatGPT-4. I manually edited the articles to make them more readable, and then pasted them into Wordpress.


Step 4. Article optimization for SEO.
I used Yoast and Semrush's SEO Writing Assistant to optimize the articles for SEO. They all have a score >8.0.


Step 5. Buying backlinks.
I went on Fiverr (didn't know BHW at the time) and started searching for gigs in the "off-page SEO" category.
Here's the gigs I decided to buy (where you see the ****** there's d0follow with the "o").

80$ - 5 high authority redirects, 50 "foundation backlinks"

30$ - 100 do-follow contextual backlinks

55$ - 10 forum links

30$ - Increase Ahrefs' DR to 30+

12$ - Guest post on vaggioblog[dot]it

35$ - Guest post on resetweb[dot]com

10$ - Guest post on milanoida[dot]it

20$ - Guest post on ibeam[dot]it

10$ - Guest post on nellanotizia[dot]net


I'm thinking about posting a .xlsx with the Ahrefs and Semrush report I have about these backlinks, but I don't know if posting it to the public would be a wise move. I you want, I can send it to you via PM.


Anyway, after all this, the result I have is the following:




What did I do wrong?

Buying links on Fiverr is like buying Sex at an HIV clinic.

Why do you increase Ahrefs DR? That has nothing to do with real SEO value.
The same with non-manual links <1$. Especially when those links are not your GEO-related

P.S. I am the forum backlinks provider you bought from on Fiverr

And one more thing. About ChatGPT creating.. IMAO, that's something really strange in there.
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/s...-could-i-get-a-sanction-for-the-site.1509774/ - here is the thread of my own project, built on ChatGPT 3.5 content. It was fine, but dropped in 1 day.. I didn't even built any backlinks yet. I suppose it's because of content of AI, still learning

Buying links on Fiverr is like suckss

I've said this before
Most people use Fiverr for neg SEO

DeadJoe said:

Buying links on Fiverr is like buying Sex at an HIV clinic.

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That's one of the things I learned here on BHW, but unfortunately it was not something I didn't know back at the time..

maxmayer said:

Why do you increase Ahrefs DR? That has nothing to do with real SEO value.
The same with non-manual links <1$. Especially when those links are not your GEO-related

P.S. I am the forum backlinks provider you bought from on Fiverr

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Yes, hi! I'm happy to find you here on BHW, because this means that at least the money I spent on your gig was money well spent
Anyway, I read somewhere (don't remember where) that DR was one of the factors considered by Google. It sounded strange to me, but it was just 30 bucks, so I thought I could give it a try.

maxmayer said:

And one more thing. About ChatGPT creating.. IMAO, that's something really strange in there.
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/shows-dropped-to-zero-in-one-day-could-i-get-a-sanction-for-the-site.1509774/ - here is the thread of my own project, built on ChatGPT 3.5 content. It was fine, but dropped in 1 day.. I didn't even built any backlinks yet. I suppose it's because of content of AI, still learning

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Thanks, I'll read it very carefully!

Alexannix said:

That's one of the things I learned here on BHW, but unfortunately it was not something I didn't know back at the time..



Yes, hi! I'm happy to find you here on BHW, because this means that at least the money I spent on your gig was money well spent
Anyway, I read somewhere (don't remember where) that DR was one of the factors considered by Google. It sounded strange to me, but it was just 30 bucks, so I thought I could give it a try.


Thanks, I'll read it very carefully!

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hell no, man
DR is good stuff, but only if it's real one. DR is the result of backlink profile. If you have top backlinks on your website - your DR is higher.
You just can't increase DR up to 30,50,70 and get SEO traffic
It's a joke

The Golden rule I learnt about Linkbuilding is Never stop the Linkbuilding once you started. Gradually building links each month will keep your website alive in serp. Even if you have some poor quality links, you can still dilute your backlink profile with some good links.

I agree with the golden rule of link building. Consistency is key to maintaining a healthy backlink profile.