This is the pitfall 90% of people fall into—external links aren’t layered, all piled into the same dimension.
To truly break through the bottleneck, you need to learn how to build a pyramid:
- Base Layer: GPB links—ensure at least 200 domains survive long-term. This is the foundation. Without them, Google won’t believe your site is “legitimate.”
- Middle Layer: GNB links—start with 10,000 links monthly, targeting social media and forum comments. Even if the links look like “/thread-123456,” they can still bring in a large number of new domains.
- Top Layer: GMB links—bombard with millions of site group links. Don’t aim for survival rates; purely use quantity to push indexing rates from 30% to over 60%.
A classic case: a wig export site had already amassed 100,000 pieces of original content, but indexing was stuck at 20,000. Upon diagnosis, we found their external links were all GPB. While high-quality, they only covered 300 domains. After adding GNB and GMB packages, indexing surged to 80,000 pages in three months, and the main keyword “lace wigs” went from not showing up at all to stabilizing on page two.
So don’t blame Google for not giving you traffic. First, ask yourself: Are your external links “a single standout” or “a barrage of arrows”? These days, external links need to be like a hot pot—balanced and plentiful—to satisfy Google’s crawlers!
