I decided that I only want other people to leave links for me. I would rather spend time on my USP products, making them the best they can be, and then marketing them on socials. People that like my ish, that have the resources, will natually leave a link or communicate the sites on socials.
Haha, I get what you’re saying backlink value is mostly smoke and mirrors. The “exact value” of a backlink is indeed hard to measure. I still think there’s room for strategic link building, especially for competitive niches.I decided that I only want other people to leave links for me. I would rather spend time on my USP products, making them the best they can be, and then marketing them on socials. People that like my ish, that have the resources, will natually leave a link or communicate the sites on socials.
There is nobody on this planet, that can for defainte claim a backlink is worth anything. Name me one person who got backlink data from a google API, to say that their backlink at X improved the position of Y by 10 places? lol Or a google employee that called them to say, "You know what that link for your site, google thinks its worth page 1 ranking" Its all just smoke and mirrors, and far too much ambigutity to be taken as serious.
My best perforning site recently has had no links built to it by anyone except 1 person on social media. The rest of the links are just SEO sellers spamming my site and advertising via ahrefs and semrush reports, lol You call that a real valuable industry with worthwhile business techniques?
Maybe other people take artificial backlinking serious, but thats their problem!
That's a good idea. It's definitely smart to make link-building fit each site's niche and aims. I suggest that you first look at where your competitors are obtaining their best links and then focus on making connections that are high-quality and relevant instead of just trying to get a lot of them. When it comes to links, quality links that fit with your content strategy will always fare better than random ones.
Customizing link building packages really depends on the site and niche @ksanyok. Tools and automation services can help give guidance like spotting competitors links or identifying relevant domains. But they rarely replace human judgment, especially for unusual or highly specific niches like astrophysics.