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Link Sellers are getting desperate
Posted by on April 27, 2026 at 3:21 pmHas anyone else noticed that the link sellers are getting desperate and just creating huge sites with tons of outgoing links?
They’ll hope you notice the influx of new low quality links to your site and contact them. At least that’s what it seems like they’re doing.
I’m noticing this across multiple sites and multiple industries. Even clients are noticing it, asking if they should disable those links or not.
I’ve looked at a bunch of these sites using Majestic link graph that shows multiple tiers of links. It appears that it’s mostly PBNs that these link seller are creating.
And no, I wouldn’t bother disavowing them. It’s just rather annoying to see them show up when you’re trying to analyze a link profile.
As for getting desperate, I’ve seen various tactics like this, like semalt doing google analytics referrer spam several years ago. It’s not marketing, it’s just someone getting desperate.
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Yes, with these new tools that allow creating websites with thousands of pages in a day, they’re creating PBNs in a super dumb way. The secret of a PBN is stealth, and these people only need a neon sign that reads “this is a one month PBN!”
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Link Sellers *were* always desperate. I have seen them present PBN as the holy grail a PBN for closed group, only elites, curated by experts, and whatnot. But considering my young experience (4 Years), I could be wrong by saying these people are on another level some of them really rocking the PBNs, and I’ve seen a couple PBNs that are really nailing.
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Yes – 100% – everywhere – here, linkedin, X
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I’ve also noticed that, random shitty sites not just spamming hundreds of links toward me, but also even falsely including me in their testimonials!
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They always were desperate
I always recommended my clients against these practices, tell them that if the content is good, backlinks will emerge organically
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I have even been noticing this trend at client sites, and I agree. Google is now able to spot and demote such PBNs within a few weeks after launch.
The fundamental problem? The sellers mistake quality for volume. One good link is worth more than 100 spammy links. Clients are concerned about getting rid of these links, but Google doesn’t really care about them.
My advice? If there isn’t a manual action against the site, there’s no point in wasting your time trying to disavow them.
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Makes total sense. I see these massive, spammy sites constantly. It’s the same annoying PBN pattern. Just ignore the links and focus on your analysis.
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They aren’t desperate, they’re automated. It costs them pennies to spin up a thousand sites and blast the web. If one clueless “pro” buys a link, the bot pays for itself for a year.
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There is a deadline for link building (just like there is for much of the other practices), and it just how it dies out. It didn’t start well to begin with (directory farms for Page Rank), so it was rather expected for it to end in some sort of desparation.
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I wonder how many Tool/AI Tool providers will reply to this post?
1 zapped already
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