Actually, I just figured out that the article was indexed. I am thinking that maybe I need to purchase PNB links...? Do you know how an article works in connection with links?
I am just learning how SEO works. Thank you.
The main idea is guest posts at tier-1, then pbns and niche edits at tier-2.
You can break the rules, and use various properties at tier-1, but there are risks involved, if you can't confirm their quality.
In a situation like yours, you wanna bolster your links at tier-2, and see how the serps react, then go from there.
Long-term movements can take about a year, but I do find that there is a knee-jerk reaction within about a month of building new links, and it tends to give you an idea about how things will move in the long-run.
So, if you see a poor knee-jerk downward movement, then you can either bolster those links at tier-2, or you can just move-on, and try to build better links moving forward.
The hard part is that it's still the cultural norm to hide networks, and 9/10 guys don't view their properties as poor quality or spammy.
So, you always have to ask for samples, and you need to be looking at the referring domain to total backlinks ratio, as well as the total number of keywords ranking.
I dunno what link metrics tool you are using, but a good starter is DomDetailer for backlink ratios, and you can also use SE Ranking or SpyFu to get both link metrics, as well as ranking keyword insights.
If an asset has zero ranking keywords in the top 100 results for all their qualifying keywords, then that tells you Google doesn't trust that site, for some reason.
Anything can be made a shell, but still... those are generally not properties you want to send to your money site.
Make sure to check the link metrics of the links you've built, but be careful not to tier-2 bolster those, if you find them to be really spammy.
It's not the end of the world, but you should definitely be thinking about a long-term budget that goes past a year, or so, and not about what you can see from month-to-month.
You need quality links at tier-1, and at some point you can diversify to sort-of mask those properties, but most of your lower quality links should be at additional tiers.
That's a general rule-of-thumb, and you want your referring domain to total backlink ratios to be close to 1:1 as possible.
Most sites are between 1:2 and 1:4, or so, but stay away from 1:10, and higher, I'd argue.
Anyways, there's a lot to share, but that's a general guideline for buying links, and making sure you are getting decent properties.
You need things with natural link ratios, and that also have rankings.
None of the other metrics are trustworthy, and they can be easily manipulated.
I'm not answering anymore questions... you can reference YouTube, and pick-up things along the way, but this is enough to take you a long ways.
Best to you, and I wish you well!
