The Backlink Guy

@RickyDPR What are you seeing for % split of homepage vs. link bait/research pages across all earned PR links these days?

Just did an audit for a potential client. The number 1 and 2 website ranking for the main commercial term had huge links from sites like the Sun, Lad Bible etc. Sites 3-10 had citation links and guest posts. Lesson in there.

@SMB_Attorney Hosting kickback Plus more charges for future additions/edits

What’s the hustle here?

@seanfrank Branded. Not cold.

A chatgpt referred session on ridge .com converts at 12% and is worth over $5 per visitor the highest I have ever seen

@landforce Agreed, and most people say it’s the opposite, that the LLMs will gobble up the wrappers and send them to zero. Can’t see that happening anytime soon.

It seems like there’s no way LLMs don’t end up a commodity, and all the value lives in the wrappers that curate and tailor context to use on top of them. Idk why but been thinking about this a lot.

He’s not going to offer it because nobody wants it. Almost 0 search volume in Ahrefs for any kind of “strength tracker” or varying keywords. Only calculators. Nothing for strength like there are for distance trackers, activity trackers, sleep trackers, etc. If people wanted this, trust me… they would search for it.

Either @WHOOP starts tracking strength training properly or all of us lifters will just move to whatever wearable does @willahmed

Yeah either 1) the $2k DOES matter a lot and they need more rapport/trust to make a big purchase, or 2) the $2k does NOT matter a lot, which means they value the expertise/relationship/problem-solving/etc. and that also requires similar rapport/trust as they vet you, otherwise $2k will be the least of their worries.

This is so true. In every business I’ve built — from my medical clinics in France to my agency now — the biggest wins never came from “close in 7 days” tactics. They came from the slow burn: rapport, trust, consistency. Most people underestimate how powerful it is to stay in someone’s orbit with value, not pressure. The long game compounds harder than any script. Curious — looking back, was there one specific touchpoint that you think actually tipped the deal?

Just got closed from an IG DM ad. And there’s a huge lesson here. The service is consulting on a funnel build. I have access to plenty of funnel builders and build my own - but I went with this guy. Why? I liked him. He didn’t try to sell me hard. He gave me free backend access to show me what he was working on. We built a report together. He even offered to have me come to his office and just do it together in person. It took 2 months to close. One 30-minute phone call, several Looms (I’m sure he sent those to other people too), and tons of voice notes. Here’s the thing: You’re all trying to close someone immediately. Cold to customer in 7 days. And yeah, that can happen - but you’re leaving so much money on the table by not following up, not keeping people in your orbit, not priming them, not giving them free access. Try to close people quickly. But most of them won’t close quickly. The seeds you plant today get harvested in the future. When you think about selling, be ready for people to buy much later

This might be the first .info website I've ever seen ranking #1 for anything semi-competitive. No SSL either.

Backlink swap w/ an SEO agency hits my desk DR 61 Monthly traffic 2k+ Might be worth it, let's check it out..... > Blasts AI content for low-difficulty keywords > Google de-ranks it > Google cooks domain for transactional keywords > Not even located in USA (guess the country lmao) Think I'll take a pass

@Hobo_Web In other words, [promptEffort]

"Consider the extent to which a human being actively worked to create satisfying content [contentEffort]." searchable.com/blog/decoded-g…

@michaelpatron0 Because: 1) They know they can get away with it 2) Every PPC platform does it (Google, etc.)

Amazon - you guys gotta tell me: How TF does it make sense that when I run PPC campaigns for a specific search term, you are allowed to ignore the rules and just bid on random terms? This is SUPER fucking shady. If I bid on a keyboard like "iphone 15 case" why in TF would...

Your GEO strategy is finally working… wow! 3% of all search + AI traffic! You are literally making hundreds of dollars.

Optimizing your content for LLMs 🤣 Next he’ll explain how to polish & shine the bottom of your shoes.

@FounderKyle Even with zero distribution, plenty of guys sub-1k followers making $20k+ per month off that tiny audience.

If I hear one more person say that they would be successful if they had more followers I'm gonna lose it. It's not followers you need, it's distribution. Get out there and sell.

@alexhalliday @illyism @tryramp Curious to know what would cause those specific queries though? Why would AI searches be fanning-out to sales team news, let alone concentrated to those specific queries by that much? Unless I’m missing something, surely you can understand why this looks off.

@illyism @tryramp These are fan-out query searches triggered from AI Searches. Get a fan out query chrome extension to see for yourself.

Think I would agree, seems he’s either extending out beyond his expertise, or he’s staying within but hasn’t built enough quality inbound links. And those large websites (who are frequently publishing many new webpages and sub-40% indexation) are often making the similar mistake of extending out beyond their expertise too, right? If he’s doing pSEO right and it’s working, shouldn’t it be a higher % since his site is small and I assume he’s manually indexing? That’s sorta what I’m getting at, when you launch a small amount of pages and put lots of effort/attention towards indexing, personally I’m able to get 70-95% indexing success rate for pSEO on my PDN websites. (And I see what happens when I sell a guest post that’s only adjacently-related to my site’s niche, they don’t index as well – part of the reason I have to add friction to agencies and make them adjust the topic & content). Related/personal observation – seems like G’s willingness to index can also be impacted by the type of webpage – lack of priority for blog content vs. higher priority for commercial/web tool pages with utility (even if they’re all equally within a site’s core niche, theoretically). I’m not sure what types of webpages OP is launching.

@backlink_guy @YoungbloodJoe Many large sites (like >200k) can't move beyond 40% indexation rates. Indexing is a direct result of authority/topical authority

Can you really consider 87 (~51%) pages indexed as "working"? Is this really pSEO?

@goddtriffin @lukemaj_ @starter_story Correct, no boost to your first question. You should switch your real domain to the EMD if your current branded domain has little traction for traffic / ranking keywords / backlinks / domain age below 2 years.

Just to clarify, so if I own a “brand”ed domain name and then buy an exact match domain name which permanently redirects to it - will I see any SEO boost from the exact match domain? Or would I have to switch to it as my “real” domain to see any benefits? (Let’s assume enough time has passed that there is no negative impact from any domains being too new.)

An "exact-match domain" could replace your salary.

Quick note on SEO + EMDs (exact-match keyword domains). If your .com EMD isn’t available, you can still get the same effect by: 1) Using .co / .net / others 2) Using a hyphen between words I’ve even seen suffixes & prefixes to the keyword also work, despite sub-par backlinks.

@lukemaj_ @starter_story Won’t do anything, zero link equity in a new domain

@starter_story have anyone tried buying exact match domains and using them as redirects? 🤑

@starter_story Yup x.com/backlink_guy/s…