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I am sharing every day a lesson I learned while building my last products.

SEO is a function of backlinks and content. Let’s cover backlinks:

• the best backlinks are earned (press releases, organic mentions, etc.): for these, try HARO tools, contact directly the relevant blogs for your website to be included - it takes longer to earn these.

• the second best backlinks are produced (social websites, directories, etc.): you can get started with these today! I recommend using @philkellr’s backl.io/directory, complemented by @ConnorShowler’s X feed (which I have collect in a table in ricardobatista.me/sneakybacklinks)

Start today building links, since their effect takes weeks/months to be recognized.

Tomorrow let’s talk about how to fast-track these backlinks’ recognition by the search engines!