4 Reasons You Built Backlinks and They Didn't Work - Episode 137

About this episode

This episode discusses four reasons why backlinks may not be effective for your website.

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy The 4 reasons you build backlinks and they do not help: You have too little authority You built bad backlinks You have a problem with your site You are not relevant Mentioned episodes: the 4 Ways to Get Backlinks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8 the 4 Things You Need to Rank - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L7tAil0Bg You MIGHT Get a Penalty. Maybe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thcGIEPiN6I

People in this episode

Host: Grumpy SEO Guy

Topics covered

• backlinks
• SEO
• website authority
• site problems
• relevance

Keywords

• backlinks
• SEO
• website authority
• site issues
• relevance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Patreon

Books & works: the 4 Ways to Get Backlinks, the 4 Things You Need to Rank, You MIGHT Get a Penalty. Maybe

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