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Research
Seven ways to get backlinks for your website, each with what bklink's own audits measured. 21 of our 36 directory listings linked back with a followed link, but only 14 of 35 directory links our audits found were still there about 5 weeks later. 84% of links found on press-release sites were nofollow. Of 1,186 placed links read again 36 to 45 days later, 94% were still on the page.
geo-aeo
Generative engine optimization is about getting cited in AI answers. Google says AI Overviews need no special optimisation beyond being indexed and snippet-eligible, OpenAI separates its search crawler from its training crawler, and the GEO study found quotations, statistics and citations lift visibility while keyword stuffing does not. Backlinks help a page get found and trusted, as in search, but do not buy a citation.
backlink-vendor-accountability
Outreach agencies, guest-post marketplaces, link insertion sellers, press-release distributors and network operators all call themselves link building companies, and they deliver very different things. This guide shows how to tell which kind you are talking to, what each pricing model implies, which questions to ask in writing, and how to check a small paid pilot before committing to more.
finance
Finance is one of Google's YMYL (Your Money or Your Life) categories, which means link-building for a finance site is judged on source credibility more heavily than volume. A handful of links from recognized financial publishers outweighs a much larger batch of generic guest posts.