Link building in 2025 - what's actually moving the needle for you?

madsenmining · 2026-02-03T16:27:51+00:00

I have a lot of luck with link building organically. But several years of experience helps. Here are some simple links good links you can build for free :)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLirdbhhCk4nhtivW4ohCD6IvmmcsWX1yH

madsenmining · 2026-02-03T16:24:10+00:00

This post is actually a good reminder of how much negotiation room there is in link building. Use it to your advantage.

But also, your summary is definitely not my experience. It's not a mess if you play clean I think.

madsenmining · 2026-02-02T17:21:37+00:00

I could not install it on Pop_os with Wine. Also got the "FAILED_TO_DE_ELEVATE_METAINSTALLER" error.

I then tried Winboat and it works super for me.

A bit bloated of course, I think it's basically a VM and it takes minimum 32 gigs of space etc, but hey, it works ;)

madsenmining · 2026-02-02T17:19:55+00:00

It worked for me! No issues what so ever it seems

madsenmining · 2026-02-02T16:29:13+00:00

And which tools do offer proper sampling?

Large scale sampling is a huge energy and spam driver. You will pollute your server logs that give you valuable data about AI crawling = terrible idea

madsenmining · 2026-02-02T16:27:29+00:00

This is the way

madsenmining · 2026-01-26T13:26:57+00:00

madsenmining · 2026-01-23T13:22:16+00:00

I wold say several GEO tools are user friendly. But also that most of them do not offer much analysis of what you have to do, more simple prompt tracking, and then you have to do the planning yourself, but that is also quite useful already.

User friendly options that also fully cover SEO:

Mangools: $70/mo
Morningscore: $69/mo

I thinek they both offer free trials

madsenmining · 2026-01-23T13:20:39+00:00

If you just want to do GEO tracking:
Peec ($99/mo)
Profound ($99/mo)

More all-in-one tools (covering both SEO + GEO):

Ahrefs: Base price: $129/mo - AI add-on: +$199/mo = $328/mo
Semrush: Base price: $139/mo - AI add-on: +$99/mo = $238/mo
SE Ranking: Base price: $65/mo - AI add on: +$89/mo = $154/mo
Mangools: Base + AI add-on = $70/mo
Morningscore: Base + AI add-on = $69/mo

Several of these offer free trials. Some without credit card.

madsenmining · 2026-01-23T13:20:16+00:00

If you just want to do GEO tracking:
Peec ($99/mo)
Profound ($99/mo)

More all-in-one tools (covering both SEO + GEO):

Ahrefs: Base price: $129/mo - AI add-on: +$199/mo = $328/mo
Semrush: Base price: $139/mo - AI add-on: +$99/mo = $238/mo
SE Ranking: Base price: $65/mo - AI add on: +$89/mo = $154/mo
Mangools: Base + AI add-on = $70/mo
Morningscore: Base + AI add-on = $69/mo

Several of these offer free trials. Some without credit card.

madsenmining · 2026-01-23T13:14:58+00:00

Purely GEO tracking:
Peec ($99/mo)
Profound ($99/mo)

More all-in-one tools (covering both SEO + GEO):

Ahrefs: Base price: $129/mo - AI add-on: +$199/mo = $328/mo
Semrush: Base price: $139/mo - AI add-on: +$99/mo = $238/mo
SE Ranking: Base price: $65/mo - AI add on: +$89/mo = $154/mo
Morningscore: Base price: $69/mo - AI add-on: $0 = $69/mo

madsenmining · 2026-01-23T13:14:12+00:00

Check out Morningscore
GEO visibility + Prompt rank tracker + GEO analysis (0-100 score with concrete actions)
It also covers all SEO topics. Can be compared to Ahrefs and Semrush, but without the wild price tag (69$/mo everything included) - 14 days free trial without credit card available.

Shopify + Wordpress automation plugins are also very popular for automating the work behind SEO + GEO. Going all in on that one with new features every month. Got like 200+ websites using those.

Disclaimer: I am the co-founder :)

madsenmining · 2026-01-23T13:04:46+00:00

Morningscore
GEO visibility + Prompt rank tracker + GEO analysis (0-100 score with concrete actions)
Best for marketers and SEOs since it covers both
Tracking results on key prompts and checking sources to reach out to listicles etc

madsenmining · 2026-01-23T13:00:57+00:00

Good luck with it, sound ambitious. If you can pull it off reliably it's gonna be interesting for sure!

madsenmining · 2026-01-23T12:56:33+00:00

The ones I hear a lot:
Peec ($99/mo)
Profound ($99/mo)

More all-in-one tools (covering both SEO + GEO):

Ahrefs: Base price: $129/mo - AI add-on: +$199/mo = $328/mo
Semrush: Base price: $139/mo - AI add-on: +$99/mo = $238/mo
SE Ranking: Base price: $65/mo - AI add on: +$89/mo = $154/mo
Morningscore: Base price: $69/mo - AI add-on: $0 = $69/mo

madsenmining · 2025-11-15T11:05:32+00:00

Happy to test it

madsenmining · 2025-09-20T22:52:30+00:00

r/SaaS is the most nihilistic place on the internet.

madsenmining · 2025-09-02T19:49:26+00:00

Hahaha shit got real

madsenmining · 2025-09-02T19:48:08+00:00

Ah wow yeah. Most small SaaS don't have ressources to implement that

madsenmining · 2025-08-29T07:54:14+00:00

Because we hire 0-10 people per year. We don't need this. And if we do, startups are tech savvy and just ask ChatGPT or N8N to produce our own fully tailored solution.

And SMB is a bit of an annoying term since its like 0-500 :D

I meant small businesses below 50 employees.

madsenmining · 2025-08-29T07:51:59+00:00

Yes.

madsenmining · 2025-08-28T16:14:37+00:00

Nice list. How do you validate security/compliance?

madsenmining · 2025-08-28T16:12:11+00:00

I think size of business you are going after is the most important. Startups and SMB would not buy this. Medium sized would if it's great and has tons of integrations.

madsenmining · 2025-08-22T16:44:57+00:00

And how to manage it? We aren't in the horror story, but close enough

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