Muhammad Kashif

The backlinks that actually do something are the ones most likely to be gone. 78,552 backlinks checked in September 2026. Followed links: 15.1% gone. Nofollow links: 3% gone. Five times the rate. seo26master.com/how-to-check… #SEO #LinkBuilding #Backlinks #TechnicalSEO

Two companies measured guest post prices this year. No connection between them. Adsy: 52,671 sites. Average $459. BuzzStream: 257,267 sites. Average $461. Two dollars apart. seo26master.com/guest-post-p… #SEO #LinkBuilding #GuestPosting #DigitalPR

The top ranking list of sites that accept guest posts was published in May 2023. Its first entry is Forbes, which cut dozens of contributing writers in December 2025. Entry number one. Nobody checked. seo26master.com/sites-that-a… #SEO #GuestPosting #LinkBuilding #ContentMarketing

Google's spam policies give this as an example of a violation: "Casino-related content on a former elementary school site." They call it expired domain abuse. It is most of what gets sold as a guest post. seo26master.com/how-to-spot-… #SEO #Backlinks #LinkBuilding #GoogleSearch

The average backlink asking price is $929. The average price buyers actually pay is $207. Across 52,671 websites. Your first quote is not a price, it is an opening position. seo26master.com/niche-edits-… #seo #guestpost #backlinks

HARO has been dead since 9 December 2024. I checked every method people recommend for getting backlinks without guest posting and wrote the version with the dead ones removed. seo26master.com/backlinks-wi…

Google's "link scheme" page does not exist. I checked today. The words do not appear anywhere on Google's spam policies. The section is called Link spam and lists eleven examples. All eleven quoted and explained: seo26master.com/google-link-…

Google, April 2024: "We need very few links to rank pages. Over the years we've made links less important." Everything Google has published about links, quoted in full, plus five checks to run before you pay for one. seo26master.com/high-quality… #backlinks #seo #guestpost

There is no rel "dofollow". A nofollow link has a tag added. A sponsored link has a tag added. A dofollow link has nothing. So a dofollow guest post is a paid placement where the label was left off, and that is exactly what the price premium is for. seo26master.com/dofollow-vs-…

Six live guest post guidelines pages, quoted: Social Media Today: avoid anything over 700 words. WordStream: 1,500 minimum. One site caps you where another starts you. There is no standard. seo26master.com/guest-post-w… #GuestPosting #SEO #ContentWriting #LinkBuilding

Six live guest post guidelines pages, quoted: Social Media Today: avoid anything over 700 words. WordStream: 1,500 minimum. One site caps you where another starts you. There is no standard. seo26master.com/guest-post-w… #GuestPosting #SEO #ContentWriting #LinkBuilding

My own tool called a developer community a link shop. Three of its five reasons were wrong. It missed the fact that mattered. The site had published nothing in 14 months. medium.com/illumination/site… #SEO #LinkBuilding #GuestPosting #BuildInPublic

AI assistants recognise almost every brand and recommend almost none. One 2026 study: 96% described accurately when asked directly. 89% never appeared in category answers. seo26master.com/ai-mention-v… #AISearch #GEO #SEO #BrandVisibility

Most guest post vetting checks the domain. Google judges the section your article will sit in, and it has published the five questions it asks. Those five, plus three of my own: seo26master.com/how-to-vet-g… #GuestPosting #LinkBuilding #SEO #ContentMarketing

I read submissions for five Medium publications. Most of what I return is well written. Five reasons it comes back — four of them aren’t the writing at all. seo26master.com/why-guest-po… #GuestPosting #ContentMarketing #Medium #SEO

Your guest post is still live six months later and has stopped working. Everyone says pages without internal links do not get crawled. Google’s crawl budget docs name three factors. Internal linking is not one of them. seo26master.com/guest-post-o… #SEO #LinkBuilding #GuestPosting

Before you pay for a guest post, check whether the page your article will sit on is connected to anything else on that site. Not the domain rating. The page. Three ways to check, one needs no tools: medium.com/illumination/the-… #SEO #Backlinks #LinkBuilding

Most AI search advice tells you to fix your website. For a recommendation question, your website was never in the answer. What to do instead, with the data: medium.com/illumination/your… #SEO #AISearch #GEO #AEO #ContentMarketing

Most medical research coverage is either a breakthrough headline or nothing. Dr Mehmet Yildiz on why another ALS trial failed, and why there is still no cure after 150 years. Free to read. medium.com/illumination/anot…

Automation can handle the repetitive parts of link building. Choosing which links actually make sense for a page is still the whole job. medium.com/illumination/is-b… #SEO #LinkBuilding #Backlinks #ContentStrategy #DigitalMarketing