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Passive Link Building: Why It’s Mostly a Myth (And What Actually Works)

If you operate a website and you’ve done at least a little bit of research into SEO, you’ve probably come across the term “link earning.” Some refer to it as “passive link building.” The idea behind it is fairly simple: if you build it, they will come. Essentially, the belief is that if you build…

David Farkas  5/12/2026 2 comments
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Link Prospecting Made Easy With Free Prospecting Tool!

[no_toc] I’m super excited to announce the launch of a first-of-its-kind, free Link Prospecting Tool. If you do any sort of link building or link audits, chances are you work with a large set of URLs. Whether you generated those prospects from your competitor’s backlinks, or you used a tool to scrape Google, there’s usually a…

David Farkas  11/1/2018 16 comments
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