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Most Links Come From Follow-Ups, Not First Emails

Most backlinks don’t come from your first email. They come from follow-ups that actually get noticed. In this guide, I’m gonna give you proven tips, tricks, and tactics for sending effective follow-up emails that get opened and replied to. There are a lot of characteristics that are commonly shared between skilled, high-level link builders. One…

David Farkas  4/16/2026 2 comments
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Clean Google Search: A Fast, Distraction-Free Search Tool

If you want to skip the explanation and just try out this new tool, click here to use Clean Google Search. It’s free, instant, and doesn’t require any installation. For everyone else, if you’ve used Google lately, you’ve probably noticed how noisy search results have become. Instead of just getting the links you’re looking for,…

David Farkas  6/12/2025 1 comments
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Link Building Best Practices for SEO Success

Link building isn’t just about authority and anchor text anymore. Sure, you still need relevant placements, natural anchors, a clean link profile, and strong content. Those are the basics. They’re the classic link building best practices that still matter, even as the algorithm evolves. But here’s the problem. Most people stop there. If you want…

David Farkas  6/4/2025 7 comments
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The Ultimate Guide to Link Building Outreach

Link building outreach is harder than creating content. Many people don’t realize how much work goes into successfully building just one relevant link. When I speak with prospective clients, I find many have good resources and good content, but they still struggle to earn backlinks. That’s, partially, because good content doesn’t automatically get links and,…

David Farkas Updated on 6/3/2025 34 comments
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Is AI Killing Truth and Trust on the Web?

We’re watching a dangerous cycle take shape on the internet. AI tools generate content. Some of it is accurate. A lot of it is not. That content gets published online. Then other AI systems crawl the web, pick up those articles, and treat the information as fact. Eventually, the false claims get repeated, repackaged, and…

David Farkas  6/2/2025  
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