I was doing some market research and I noticed that for some of the nice site owners, Ahrefs showed a very similar trend in backlink history. These sites are usually in position 1 or top 5 in SERPS. Basically as soon as the sight is created there are like 100-200 referring domains and double the total inbound backlinks, as time goes on these PEAK at 700+ referring domains and 1000+ total backlinks. THEN what happens next is they taper down slowly to a plateau over time reaching like 50 or so referring domains and 100-200 backlinks. These are rough numbers but the trend is the same in many cases its like a hill shape that tapers off to a plateau over time.
Whats happening here? Are these scrapebox blasts in the beginning to help the domain gain traction? what happens to these links? And how does a person get 700 referring domains? I mean what sort of tools are being used here. And lastly, if it is something like nofollow blog comments and other quick back linking methods like fiverr gigs, isnt that actually BAD in todays SEO environment? yet I see this all the time.
Insights welcome. PS I personally use PBNs
examples (one is a prime example, the other only shows the declining part of the links)


Whats happening here? Are these scrapebox blasts in the beginning to help the domain gain traction? what happens to these links? And how does a person get 700 referring domains? I mean what sort of tools are being used here. And lastly, if it is something like nofollow blog comments and other quick back linking methods like fiverr gigs, isnt that actually BAD in todays SEO environment? yet I see this all the time.
Insights welcome. PS I personally use PBNs
examples (one is a prime example, the other only shows the declining part of the links)

