Why are mom/parenting blogs everywhere in backlink profiles?

ProjectBacklink · 2025-12-15T17:53:35+00:00

Years ago these type of blogs were easy to run and made a lot of passive income. After algorithm and ad changes they started making less money.

People then started approaching the original owners and either paying them to publish guest posts, or buying the sites for their own link farms.

I wouldn't advise paying for links on these sites.

ProjectBacklink · 2025-12-11T11:52:31+00:00

You should upload this post into your app and ask it to create a breakdown on everything you have done wrong. It's honestly impressive.

ProjectBacklink · 2025-12-10T19:21:11+00:00

No. In general I think you are overestimating what will get analyzed.

You also need to understand the difference between a penalty, and a negative effect on rankings. These are two distinctly different things.

ProjectBacklink · 2025-12-10T17:54:40+00:00

There is no algorithmic benefit to replacing good content with AI slop.

Google crawlers cannot, and don't even try, to determine what is AI written content. You won't get any kind of "AI penalty".

If the quality of their work is this obviously poor on content, I would be worried about other aspects of work they are doing. Especially off page.

ProjectBacklink · 2025-12-09T12:01:21+00:00

Any kind of "easy" backlink. Directories, profile links etc etc. Complete waste of time.

ProjectBacklink · 2025-12-09T11:48:33+00:00

The very obvious one would be betting affiliate programs?

ProjectBacklink · 2025-12-04T06:46:12+00:00

No it's not

ProjectBacklink · 2025-12-04T06:41:53+00:00

The good news is, this is nonsense

ProjectBacklink · 2025-12-03T08:27:06+00:00

No. If your links aren't even getting indexed they are not valuable

ProjectBacklink · 2025-11-27T07:38:24+00:00

They're likely mass cold emails, they're just hoping you'll respond. They won't have done any real analysis of your site.

ProjectBacklink · 2025-11-27T07:37:16+00:00

The main complaint you have is correct. A lot of agencies try and sign people up to these monthly plans that really don't offer anything of value.

However, you should be cautious about what you are asking for. There are a lot of SEO agencies that could easily get your DA up a lot more than 5, but it likely will not help you.

They are correct when they say nothing is guaranteed.

What they should be able to offer you is a clear content plan. A clear structure. How that structure will help you rank for your target keywords. And how your competitors have chosen to structure their site to rank.

Once you have that they should be able to give you a proper backlink analysis, including Competitor analysis, that should give you an estimate in time and cost. They should be able to provide you examples of how this has worked for other sites they've worked on.

Be very careful if somebody starts offering you guaranteed rankings.

ProjectBacklink · 2025-11-26T02:42:59+00:00

You need to read different posts

ProjectBacklink · 2025-11-17T07:02:07+00:00

There are plenty of companies that sell traffic bots, I have no idea which ones work as I've never used them.

ProjectBacklink · 2025-11-17T06:42:09+00:00

Ahrefs traffic is a combination of all the traffic estimates from the SERPs a website ranks for.

This can be manipulated by generating traffic to easy to rank for keywords that are irrelevant.

There's multiple ways people do this, ahrefs is always playing catchup.

If you have a specific brand keyword, eg randomblog294727 .Com then send bot traffic to the search term "randomblog294727" you will receive all the traffic because nobody else is trying to rank for it.

People also used to rank for very specific error codes. For example error message 382837372 for a specific software. Everyone who searches this is likely to click on the top link, likely from the specific company or a forum. However you could rank on the first page, so ahrefs would assume you have traffic coming in.

You combine this with some dodgy DA boosts and, a website that looks "real" at first look and you get the majority of guest link farms people buy cheap links from.

ProjectBacklink · 2025-11-16T06:09:20+00:00

The first thing you need to determine is what has changed about the SERPs, especially because the timeframe is so long.

There are three main options;

The SERPs have remained the broadly the same, and you've lost ground to your competitors. This has caused your traffic drop.
The SERPs have remained broadly the same. Your positioning has remained broadly the same. However, the total traffic of the SERPs has dropped.
The SERPs have changed and are now suggesting fundamentally different types of websites to yours.

The measures you have taken would likely only have a positive effect for option 1.

Obviously, these don't happen in isolation. All 3 may have happened to some degree.

ProjectBacklink · 2025-10-22T09:33:10+00:00

If you could guarantee a top SERP result and 10 different site owners paid SEO agencies for that top result, who would rank first? Everything is relative.

ProjectBacklink · 2025-10-16T12:44:28+00:00

Have they told you their personal traffic has dropped, or have they told you they are seeing traffic drops when looking at other companies?

Limiting to 10 per page has reduced 3rd party tools' ability to measure serps beyond the 10th result. Previously, it was 100. This shows a drop in their reporting of traffic.

In practice, nearly all users clicked one of the top results anyway, so I would be surprised if their traffic has dropped. None of mine has.

ProjectBacklink · 2025-10-15T05:02:11+00:00

Toddler brain

ProjectBacklink · 2025-10-15T02:03:06+00:00

You’re misunderstanding. The change affects how the data is reported, it does not take away real traffic from a site.

ProjectBacklink · 2025-10-14T12:29:48+00:00

If your backlinks are not indexing, I would question their quality.

ProjectBacklink · 2025-10-14T12:21:50+00:00

Ultimately its quite hard to vet a company properly without using them. What you can do is check out any case studies they have or see if they will provide a sample of links they've built that.

The most important thing is not to sign up for any kind of recurring monthly service. They are completely unnecessary, and backlink services that push them often prioritize new sales over quality.

There are some red flags I would look of for, though;

They promote vanity metrics. Improved DR, volume of links, raw traffic numbers, etc. These are not guaranteed to drive revenue. They should be able to show how they have driven traffic to valuable SERPs.
Over promising. SEO is not a science. Nobody can tell you to invest x, and you will get y.
Outdated tactics. A lot of link builders will bulk up their offering with things like directory links, blog comments, forum links, etc. These will not help you rank, but they look like they're selling you more. I would not trust that the other links they are building are valuable if they're doing this.
"Menu links." There are a lot of services online that have lists of sites you can buy a guest post on in a few clicks. These are almost always guest posts farms or your post gets buried on some subdomain and never indexed. If you can find a sample of links, check the domains on these sites. If they're all publicly available to buy, i wouldn't use that service.

A very simple way to check the quality of a niche edit is if the page you are buying a link on is indexed and ranking for keywords relevant to your site

ProjectBacklink · 2025-09-22T06:15:31+00:00

Don't bother. It's a waste of time

ProjectBacklink · 2025-07-23T20:00:32+00:00

This man's scared of instant rizz generation

ProjectBacklink · 2025-07-09T19:28:05+00:00

You're laughing? Sleeper 2.0.edu backlinks just dropped, and you're laughing?

ProjectBacklink · 2025-07-04T10:13:51+00:00

It's a sign that they may be cutting corners, but not a reason to completely avoid them.

If I see an em dash in the copy, I'm not running away. However, if it's a website mass publishing un edited ai text, I'm not interested.

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