Half of my clients open up the SEO conversation asking about freaking backlinks.

"A few months ago I paid a guy 2,000 to place some backlinks, the DR is higher now, but not the traffic."

"I paid 10K to these backlink builders but nothing happened"

Of course you didn't get more traffic. You want to know why?

Because most backlinks sellers are arbitraging on your need to rank, and 99% of them know NOTHING about SEO.

I call them a SCAM, because when they are done by these ignorants they can REVERT your chances to rank.

Snake Oil.

This is what happens in simple terms: they take your money while banging out some emails.

The long version:

They give a small % of what you pay to the owners of these websites where they publish you.

They do it to you and any other poor soul looking to rank higher.

Then yours and other 99 backlinks get labeled as toxic, and your rankings start to tank. Pray to not get penalized.

The biggest issue besides mass buying and selling backlinks is that they place your backlinks randomly: they slap your keyword/backlink on some related post in an unrelated page with bad formatting, with no bold, bullet points, related post, links, or images.

All your content work down the drain.

Is like dressing up to end up in an city slum drinking dirt water by a garbage dump.

No need to stress—I can think of way smarter ways for you to spend that cash.

A) Donate it to me. Of course I'm kidding but this way at least you won't regress in your SEO journey.

Now, more productive ideas:

B) Publish content that attracts backlinks

C) For the price of one of these backlink scams, you can get a unexpensive VA to help you email other publishers for 3 months

D) Go into platforms where you can directly research websites and get in direct touch with website owners and see what makes sense

E) Get into PR Link Building with a company like "Search Intelligence" (Use "Flavio1000" to get a 1K Discount)

For A and B I can help you directly.

For the other ones, be my guest.

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PS. I have two slots open in my SWAT SEO Agency for November

Our foundational package, the SEO PUSH, is expensive, it costs $10,000.

It includes everything to get you from zero to your first 10K clicks per month.

(you do the ROI calculation on that)

We go in, do your Topical Map, all the keyword's and competitor's research, editorial planning and publishing.

By month 3 you're left with tens of thousands of words published that will get your SEO up to speed in 2025.

Includes foundational backlinks too.

Reply with your URL and your main SEO challenge, and I'll follow up to see if we're a good fit.