We Paid Over $5000 For Link Building – What Happened? via @sejournal, @mindyweinstein

In this edition of Ask An SEO, a reader asks why their rankings rose, then dropped after paying a link building company to build links. The post We Paid Over $5000 For Link Building – What Happened? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/5000-link-building-ask-an-seo/447277/

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