Google has certainly already noticed this

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How do I get links in 2016? Well, good question. Much more important to me is the counter question: “Why do you still want links in 2016?” I've been running the blog here for over eight years. In the past, when I wrote a good article that people liked, I got a lot of trackbacks - links from other blogs. Good articles received up to 40 links. Today, even the very best posts don't get more than two or three links. It can't be the quality - it has increased and not decreased since 2008. So what happened? Today, if I think a post is good, I share it on Facebook or Twitter.


I wouldn't blog about it anymore unless I was so interested in the topic that I wanted to India Car Owner Phone Number List write a co-article on it. But I can achieve this better with a comment on the respective blog (as long as it doesn't get out of hand like the Hubspot article mentioned above). This is what we see everywhere on the internet: good content is shared and sometimes commented on, but no longer linked. Do I still need link building? From me there is a clear no. Not because I think that link buying is not link building .




But because - if you want to do “clean” link building - it is now so complex that the work and effort is not worth it. Anyone who says otherwise is not doing proper link building. This is my opinion after seeing many “natural” links from others. Every time I see link building or seeding pushed on a larger scale, it is spam, purchased links, or product testing with hobby bloggers. Clean links are not scalable and are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. It's still possible - but the time to get a link can be invested much better by creating good content, making your site user-friendly or doing other marketing.