Slacking

On mailing this list...

My bad, the goal was daily, we're down to like 2x a week.

Yikes.

I'd like to tell you it's because I've been hard at work but it's mostly four things that have dominated my attention lately.

1) Taxes. Fuck taxes.

2) New bookkeeper. Awful but necessary experience, will be great going forward.

3) My domain scoring algorithm is broken and it's pissing me off because it should work.

4) Winter showed up and I didn't ignore it. Worst year since 2015 and I'm going to hit every decent day between now and mid April.

https://x.com/GrindstoneSEO/status/1757120472372904181?s=20

Back to number three...it's critical I get this dialed in because manually quality controlling domains at the volume we outreach is nigh impossible.

But...

I'm committed to having the best curated inventory you can buy links on.

It's simple.

Links on some domains will help you rank better.

Links on others won't.

Long time readers already know the anchor text factors at play here as well.

Not help goes to toxic quick when you choose poorly.

People have been sending me link reports from other vendors over the last few weeks and oh boy....you guys are paying for some shitty links.

With exact anchors.

It's not going to end well. Eventually.

Sorry not sorry.

Someone needs to say it.

And it's probably worth repeating for the 1000th time...

If you're link vendor only supplies Referring Domains as a quality metric, you're buying hacked links.

I (and plenty others) know the upstream provider.

And despite me explaining in great detail why Referring Domains is an asstastic metric for determining quality, he doesn't care.

It's simple for his team to sort domains by RD and tier the pricing.

And he's got big name resellers feeding you the same shit.

I feel like I've beat this particular horse into pate.

Back to my algo, I've got it identifying kick-ass sites with 100% consistency.

But it's telling me that some sites are shitty when in reality with a manual check, I know that getting links on them will move the needle.

And with Google on the warpath on sites that sell lots of links, I want every possible good placement so we can 1) spread them out and 2) stay ahead of the inevitable decay.

Some of you are probably thinking 'I should just acquire great links naturally and avoid all those shenanigans'.

If that's in your skill set..if that's your cup of tea...absofookinglutely.

Do it.

And then point our Link Boost Only at those links and laugh your way to the bank.

Still the single most potent combo in SEO.

Real (as in you can't buy them) strong (as in DR80+ with 1M+ traffic) links boosted with our tiers.

Absolutely murders the big G.

For the rest of you, rest assured.

We will continue to optimize inventory to keep your paid link acquisition at the highest possible level in the industry.

Take us for a test run over at https://clients.grindstoneseo.com

Cheers,

Grind

P.S. Fark...that was way more salesy than I intended. Let's sneak some value in here late. You might not be able to buy links on those sites that I mentioned above but you can buy domains that have links from them...if you're willing to dig.

Site:cnn.com +bitcoin

Get enough longtail keywords to keep the scrapers churning, you could end up with 25k URLS, then hit them with a quick DNS resolve to see which ones aren't active sites. Follow that up with a bulk Whois lookup to ensure availability.

That's your target list.

Enjoy.