How I Acquired Many Backlinks With UR/DR +80 Below 100$ By Backlink 🚀

✅ TLDR: Are you looking for strong backlinks with metrics like +80 URL Rank / Domain Rank based on Ahrefs data?

It’s easy! Become an open-sources sponsor or non-commercial project on patreon.com or opencollective.com, and then these projects put your links on their websites.

Example:

• bower.io

• you can put your link on their main page through opencollective for 100$ / monthly (open profile bower.io on opencollective.com)

• bower.io is very strong and attractive for SEO activity considering the price for backlinks UR 85 / DR 83 🤟

BTW, on OpenCollective and Patreon you can find many more strong domains at prices ranging from $25 to $50 per month.

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✅ Intro

I used paid links mainly in year 2015–2017, for several projects when I needed to build a strong profile in a very short time. My goals were traffic from competitors within your industry and keywords from 200–300K users in one or two quarter (markets: North America and Asia).

For SEO, strong backlinks will fuel your growth early, something like a Pareto Principle when 20% activity responds to 80% results. Below, I briefly describe what growth generates these backlinks for my projects, how to find these backlinks and what to look when choosing these backlinks.

I’m sharing this strategy because I want to show that if you are creative with acquiring backlinks, you can achieve a very good SEO results at very low budget versus other activities like paid media.

At the moment, I’m not using this method because acquiring backlinks through viral marketing strategy gives me better effects, but this method is also working all the time and it’s very easy for every levels of SEO knowledge and cheaper than other SEO solutions on the market.

Example:

How much does one article on average blog costs? How strong is this backlink compared to a strong backlink from the donor’s page? Probably, your website doesn’t have strong backlinks at the moment like a backlink from bower.io.

✅ Attention!

• Donors backlinks may be recognized by Google as paid backlinks, which may result in imposing a penalty, so please remember that and be carful with this strategy :-)

• The majority of the contributors of these projects where we can acquire backlinks, don’t know that we want to support them just because of the backlinks, they think that we want to support their work, also keep the in mind.

✅ Sample Effect From Donors Backlinks

Below, I describe three sample websites that use donors backlinks.

The first domain have been linking by donors backlinks since the 2018 year, the second and the third since half of the 2019 year. For the first domain SEO was stopped in 2020, for the second and third domainthere is still some activity and you can see that this method still working, and will be working for the next several years.

✅ Sources of Backlinks

For this article, we will be looking into the two most popular websites for creator to get funding like opencollective.com, and patreon.com. In the case of OpenCollective, we only have projects where the majority is open-source projects, which offers backlinks for donations (most often monthly donations). On Patreon, we have several more projects than on OpenCollective, but 1 out of 100 project offers backlink for donation.

Summary:

• If you don’t have a lot of time, and you want to find good backlinks with minimum effort, choose OpenCollective.com

• If you want to acquire unique backlinks on the domain without another backlink from other donors, and you have a lot of time, choose Patreon.com

• Many times, you can come across the same project on Patreon and open collective, the price is almost always the same, but I recommend using OpenCollective because their support is more user-friendly.

• Also Patreon and OpenCollective offer invoices for donations that you make.

✅ How to find backlinks?

Below is a quick-note based on OpenCollective, but for Patreon every step is similar, therefore I will not put notes for Patreon. At the moment, neither Patreon or OpenCollective don’t offer filter criteria like a backlink for donation, we must find all links browsing listings with the project, or write simple crawler in python, ruby etc.

1 — Go to themain page: https://opencollective.com/ and next go to the tab “Discover”

1 — we can use simple search input or filter like popularity etc.

2 — click in the selected project

1 — scroll to the tab “Contribute”

2 — Find a plan where for donating the project you can get a backlink on the home page, or special pages (I recommend only home page = better SEO effects)

✅ Which Domain is Good?

Many projects offer a backlink for donations, but not every project is worth your money and time. Below is a five-point checklist of the which projects you should support:

a) domain / url rank

Based on Ahrefs.com, you can check which domain and URL have good parameters of domain and URL strength (You can use MajesticSEO etc). Personally I choose only projects with domain / url +70/80.

b) internal / external links

Second criteria is ratio internal/external backlinks on the project page. The fewer outgoing backlinks it’s better, especially look on another donors backlink (how many of them are already on a selected project where you want to put your backlink)

c) type of backlink

Most projects put your backlinks as a like text or image in HTML code. Sometimes on OpenCollective, the author of the project will upload your link as a js widget from OpenCollective:

➡️ https://opencollective.com/core-js/sponsor/0/website

It’s better not to choose these projects (backlinks as widgets are not worth their price).

I recommend choosing projects where you have backlinks as html code without “rel=”nofollow””.

d) type of url where the author adds our backlink

I wrote above that we need to avoid backlinks from widget js, we also should avoid backlinks from GitHub pages. We should focus only on the backlinks from the home-page (root domain), and special pages like contributors, etc (if these pages have a good quality of internal/external backlinks)

e) contact with the author of the project

Before we do a donation, a good practice is to contact the author of the project and set conditions regarding our link on the project website. Many authors after donations do not reply to our email and don’t put our backlink on the project website.

✅ Direct Donation

If you don’t need an invoice for donation, you can send a message directly to the author of the project and make a deal without reaching out to Patreon or OpenCollective.

✅ Alternative Platform to OpenCollective and Patreon

If you need more potential backlinks than what Patreon and OpenCollective can offer, you can browse and search new projects on alternative platforms, or write directly to the author of many open-source projects, etc.

Below the alternative platforms to OpenCollective and Patreon:

• https://en.liberapay.com/
• https://memberful.com/
• https://flattr.com/

✅ Link Velocity Trend

If you want to acquire backlinks by donors backlinks, remember about link velocity. Quite often many domains have problems with SEO effects becausethey acquire 25 strong backlinks in one month and in next months they don’t acquire any new backlinks, read more about LVT:

https://www.linkresearchtools.com/benefits/link-velocity/ https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-link-velocity/331637/

✅ Backlink Diversification

If you decide to acquire backlinks by donations, remember also about the backlink diversification. In my project, only 10–20% backlinks are the paid backlinks from donations. I see projects with donors bacnklinks ratio of 30–60% and many of these projects have had problems a problem with SEO including penalties, filters etc.

✅ Context of Backlinks

A good point to consider is the context of backlinks. Get acquired backlinks which fit the topic / context of your website. Example: for eCommerce shop with clothes, I supported projects that deliver e-commerce technology, or fashion projects. Thanks to this solution, you decrease the risk of penalties etc, and deliver the best results.

✅ Recurring Review Your Donors Backlinks

In the end, remember also to once in a while check the internal / external backlinks ratio on every project where you have your backlinks. Over time for many domains, their Domain/URL rank is getting worse, because more and more people are buying donors backlinks etc, and these backlinks are starting to harm your site. In this situation, remove backlinks / stop donations from those projects and find new perspective projects.

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