The secret lies in their “backlink combination strategy.”
Think of it like building a house. Some people only use steel bars (high-quality backlinks), which leads to skyrocketing costs and a fragile structure. Others only use sand (low-quality backlinks), which crumbles at the slightest breeze. The truly smart approach is to use a “concrete mix”:
- **Foundation Layer:** Use 500,000 GMB backlinks to quickly build volume. These backlinks are low-cost, and even though the retention rate is only 30%, they can trick Google’s crawler into thinking, “This site is being discussed a lot; we should crawl it more often!”
- **Reinforcement Layer:** Deploy 50,000 GNB forum backlinks, with 10% having the dofollow attribute. These appear as if they are links shared spontaneously by users, with costs controlled at around $3000.
- **Top Layer:** Use 150 GPB backlinks per month, each costing $80, specifically linking to core product pages. These backlinks are 100% indexed, like buying ad space in The New York Times. Google immediately recognizes them as authoritative recommendations.
Last year, an industrial bearings e-commerce site used this combination strategy and climbed to the first page of search results in just six months. What was their secret? In the first three months, their backlink investment ratio was 60% GMB, 30% GNB, and 10% GPB. Later, they gradually shifted to 40% GPB. It’s like using “extras” to create momentum first, then letting the “lead actors” take the stage.
