@til_fabian Unbelievable progress π
With the on-page foundation now fully optimized to capture demand, layering in high-quality link building is the exact next step needed to take absolute control of those top positions!
@til_fabian Most of those 1,450 weren't bought. Sites that big pick up spam refdomains automatically: scraper sites duplicating press, mass-outreach blasting their PR pages, PBN networks attaching to trending brands.
The 146 quality refs are what move rankings.
We launched 7 affiliate sites in 1 day with Claude Code.
Health and wellness verticals. Non-toxic living, GLP-1 patient education, peptide reviews, recipes, sleep, injection technique, nutrition systems.
Dimitar on our team built them. Here is the stack and why.
The sites:
Investigative non-toxic product reviews
GLP-1 patient education in 12 languages
Injection technique reference
Nutrition systems for lifters
Sleep and light, chronobiology-native
Peptide review database with methodology scoring
Recipe site on the Mediavine path
Each one has its own positioning, audience persona, voice rules, and topical map. Not the same template repainted 7 times.
The stack (rough):
Next.js 14 on Vercel
MDX content with custom components per site (each vertical gets its own scoring widget and callout blocks)
Schema markup done properly per page type
DataForSEO for keyword research and on-page audits
https://t.co/Uy4PCtUbCV for the photography
Claude Code does the actual building. One spec doc per site, around 5,000 lines each, covering positioning, hubs, schema, compliance, internal linking.
The spec is the work. Claude Code executes it.
Lighthouse on the cleanest one: perf 0.96, a11y 1.00, 250 KB page weight. Roughly 8x lighter than Healthline.
Why we did it:
We can productize site builds for clients. Agency clients keep asking us to ship niche content properties. Most agencies can't actually deliver them at this depth. We can now.
There's a skill gap. Claude Code workflows, 5 years of operator-level SEO, and an agency running real link campaigns.
Three skills that rarely sit in the same room.
The combo lets us own assets in niches where nobody is willing to do the editorial work properly.
We want to get into telehealth as operators, not just service providers. Three of the seven sit in the GLP-1 and peptide space. We're learning the audience, the search terms, the compliance landscape.
Owning content is step one. Owning more of the stack downstream is what we're heading toward.
Most affiliate operators ship templates. Most SEO agencies ship advice. Most engineers ship apps with no audience.
We are trying to do all three at the same time. 7 sites in 1 day was the proof it's possible.
@til_fabian On the YMYL point: we vet every health and wellness publisher manually before listing. The bar runs higher than other categories for exactly the reasons Fabian outlined. Real audiences, real editorial standards, no link farms.
Link building has been broken for years.
Buyers overpay brokers. Publishers get ghosted. Placements take weeks or never happen.
We built RankJet to fix that.
Direct publisher pricing. No reseller markup. Guaranteed publishing.
The work isn't buying the links.
It's the filter that decides which domains deserve the spend.
Most agencies skip that filter, focus everything on on-page, and wonder why rankings don't move.
Most SEO agencies focus all their attention on on-page content. On-page without off-page is nothing.
Behind RankJet is EcomSEO.
For one client we spend $10k/month on links.
Here's what that buys.
Main things we check:
- Domain DR and authority score
- Top keywords the whole domain ranks for
- Amount of referring domains and their quality
- Traffic volume and which countries it comes from
- Niche relevance to our client
In 2020, a publisher charging $100 got listed at around $200 on brokers.
In 2026, that same $100 publisher gets listed at $300-400.
Publisher prices barely moved. The fees on top of them doubled.
You're not paying more for the link. You're paying more for the middleman.
@askOkara Yeah positions 8-20 is where the easy wins live.
CTR fixes only do half the job though.
The page stuck at 12 usually has 3-5x fewer referring domains than the top 3.
Link building is what breaks the ceiling.
Introducing RankJet!
The first link building marketplace where buyers pay zero platform fees, publishers set prices and every site is manually reviewed.
We built it to fix the inflated pricing problem.
Same sites listed 3x higher because a broker got there first.
Not anymore.
Stop wasting your SEO budget on low-quality backlinks.
We built a marketplace specifically for professionals who demand transparency, high standards, and measurable ROI.
Explore the platform here: https://t.co/QrjjRMvgFj
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