How I got 43 high-quality backlinks in 4 weeks to boost my SEO (Step-by-Step)

In July, I reached out to 651 websites to do a link-exchange.

• 🚨 132 replied back
• 🟢 6.6% success rate (got 43 backlinks)
• 📈 started getting MORE customers & traffic from Google + ChatGPT.

— "My SaaS's Bing Webmaster Traffic"

— "AI started to recommend my brand MORE"

I had no idea how to do it at the beginning.

That’s why I wrote this article (to help others in the same position).

Step 1: Buy Ahrefs Lite Plan ($129/mo)

— "ahrefs plans"

This might seem like an expensive investment.

But believe me it's not.

It will give you ALL the data you need.

In my experience, "Lite" is more than enough for a single website (so you don't need "Standard")

Step 2: Open "Site Explorer" -> Enter Competitor Domain -> "Backlinks"

The strategy is pretty SIMPLE.

If you are NOT a very big brand, you should just start by copying your competitors' backlinks.

They already did the research and found the websites that accepts placements.

Here's the filters you need:

• 🟢 30-85 DR
• 🟢 do-follow
• 🟢 no-spam
• 🟢 min traffic 500
• optional: page URLs contains "best" OR "top" and "software" OR "tool"

And then SORT by -> "First seen" ↓

— "ahrefs filters for a competitor domain"

You can now check the results, if they look good + relevant to your website, proceed.

Then, export -> via CSV (or to Google Spreadsheets).

Step 3: Reach out to EVERY SINGLE WEBSITE

Now you've done the hardwork (finding who to reach out to).

Rest is just very SIMPLE + BORING work 😅

> i also built an AI agent to automate this entire process btw elvixai.com since it was taking min. ~2 hours/day to do manually - it works 7/24 on autopilot 🤓

• You'll open the link
• Find how to contact (contact form OR live chat OR email)
• Send your message
• Save each to a simple spreadsheet (to keep a record)

— "my spreadsheet structure (i saved everyone i reached out to)"

Your copy should be clean and simple.

Just tell them who you are, why you're reaching out, your offer (link exchange - they link to you, you link back to them) - and that's it.

If you prefer using Elvix, you'll see a backlink outreach template created for you as well.

IMPORTANT LESSONS LEARNED

• Volume is everything (~50 emails/day is GOOD)
• Most will want money - it's totally up to you if you have a budget or not. Google recommends only editorial, non-paid placements.
• Make sure you check every website "overview" tab in Ahrefs (to make sure they're not spammy and low quality)
• You need high-quality content (articles, listicles etc.) on your website (so people have a reason to do a link-exchange with you).
• Just ask Claude if you're not sure about anything. It can teach you the whole game.

I think we can agree on one point.

Showing up in AI answers is the FUTURE 👀

And backlink outreach helps you both:

• Build your authority (so LLMs trust you more)
• Get into "top" and "best" listicles (LLMs love suggesting tools from those)

Hope this article helps :))

Just DM me if you got any questions!