How I Get Backlinks for Free From Other Websites with 0 Outreach - Hidden Backlink Strategy

Hi, Simon Zaku here. And one of my domains (simonzaku.com) has over 600 backlinks at the time of writing this blog piece and about 200 of those are DO-FOLLOW backlinks. And I have never done any backlink outreach campaign for this website!

Domain profile for simonzaku.com march 2024. Follow my blog to watch me grow this site to 10,000 organic clicks.

At the time of writing, I have NEVER sent or done any email outreach for backlinks for my website, simonzaku.com.

Not to cancel backlink outreach (actually effective), I'd rather use this hidden-in-plain-sight-backlink-secret.

I do ONE SIMPLE thing and my backlinks and backlink profile grow automatically by attracting natural backlinks without having to send 100s of outreach emails for backlinks or paying spammy websites for backlinks.

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This is your favorite SEO and content marketing guy, Simon Zaku and this week I want to talk about an important and popular topic, backlinks.

Every website owner wants backlinks. Every startup, agency, every organization, every company wants more backlinks. But how do you get backlinks?

How do the top guys get backlinks to their websites?

This is a known approach yet many SEOs shy from it.

I say this because lots of website owners pay huge sums for backlinks.

Why I Don't Pay for Backlinks (my horrible story buying backlinks)

Here is my Google penalty story.

Sometime in 2020, I came across an ad on Facebook.

This application promised website owners could buy cheap backlinks to any website.

You can create different backlink campaigns for different pages with this backlink software.

I bought the software and started campaigns. This sent a few (horrible) backlinks.

None of the backlinks were from trusted sites. Most of these backlinks were from bots, AI, and spam websites. They were mostly hurtful black-hat SEO backlinks.

After some time, Google hit my website and I lost my search traffic, I lost my organic traffic, and my traffic went low and for that reason, I had to shut down this very website.

I relaunched this website sometime in July 2023.

For this reason, my website's SPAM score was affected (still working to get it back low).

UPDATE: After strategic work, my site's Spam Score is now 1%. I published a detailed guide to teach you how I did it (from 47% to a 1% SPAM SCORE).

My updated website SEO Spam Score

How about paid guest posts for backlinks?

I still get emails from people offering paid backlinks at different rates from different websites in niches.

Search engines like Google are strict on paying for backlinks from harmful sites. Google frowns at purchasing backlinks, especially when they're spammy.

So what is this hidden-in-plain-sight backlink-attracting strategy?

How to Get Backlinks for Free to Your Website without Sending Outreach Mails

Blogging (or Vlog) Content!

And YES, every brand should keep and run a blog.

Think about it; rather than pay thousands of dollars for a backlink, this is a natural approach to attract backlinks.

The easiest way to attract backlinks is by creating exceptional SEO content.

I know you've probably heard this countless times, but for the umpteenth time, yes, create blogs or video content.

Invest in content marketing.

• create content,

• create blog content,

• create a company blog,

• create an educational blog,

• create a startup blog.

Create content for your company, brand, and business, so that search engines (with billions of Users) will crawl your website with fresh and useful content.

Not just any content, exceptional content.

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Tell your brand stories in blogs or vlogs.

"Exceptional content" may not necessarily mean the best content but it does stand out from the crowd. It is unique and different from other content.

When you publish good content consistently, people see it.

If you want to attract quality backlinks without emailing people or paying for backlinks, you should be able to create content that deserves to be linked to.

10 Content Types that Attract Quality Backlinks FAST!

There are specific content types known to perform well. For example;

1. Reels

2. Shorts

3. Infographics

4. Statistics

Let's look at some.

Research and studies are linked to a lot of times.

What is one industry research you can do and then publish in the form of a blog?

Infographics are backlink magnets too.

Create something industry experts want to link to. People want to be affiliated with good stuff; good content.

People naturally link to good content.

These are natural backlinks from people who think they should link to your website. I've gotten thousands of emails from people linking to me without knowing them.

So blogging is a free and effective backlink strategy.

You should create content as a SaaS, agency, or NGO.

This will help you attract natural backlinks without paying or sending outreach emails.

Craft out a blogging strategy to publish content that attracts backlinks naturally.

Here is a list of the top ten content types that attract backlinks:

1. Infographics.

2. Expert roundups.

3. A List of Tools (Complete)

4. Case studies

5. YouTube research videos

6. Cheat sheets

7. Statistics and reports

8. Controversial blogs

9. How-to Guides

10. Surveys

Spend time creating content on your website that attracts backlinks without paying for spam websites or sending outreach emails for backlinks.

What do you think about blogging as a backlink strategy?

You can contact me anytime and I'll get back to you. Thank you and have a productive day.

Simon Taki Zaku brand,

Owner; simonzaku.com

SEO Consultant and Specialist in Business Blogging

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