09:10Edward Sturm · Podcast
How to Build Backlinks for a Brand New Website (From Zero Authority)
A daily SEO podcast reads through a Reddit thread on link building for a brand-new site and adds real-world context to the best answers.
January 29thThe argument in one line.
A Claude skill can automate the manual grind of finding and drafting guest posts for free, but a network-based automatic backlink platform delivers more volume with far less ongoing effort, at the cost of a monthly subscription.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- You run a website, blog, or SaaS product and want backlinks without buying them from link farms or Fiverr sellers.
- You already use Claude and want to see a real, working Claude skill applied to an SEO task.
- You're evaluating whether an all-in-one SEO automation platform like Arvow is worth a subscription.
SKIP IF…
- You want a fully free, hands-off backlink solution — the automatic method costs roughly $149.
- You need independent proof the backlinks are high-value; the video shows the platform's own dashboard counts, not third-party verification.
- You're wary of vendor content — this is published on Arvow's own channel and ends by pitching Arvow's paid feature.
The full version, fast.
This video, published on Arvow's own channel, covers two ways to build backlinks without buying them from link farms or Fiverr sellers. The first is a free Claude skill that automates manual guest-post outreach: it Googles '[niche] guest post' and 'write for us' queries, pulls each site's submission requirements, and drafts a matching post — but you still have to contact each site and often pay per placement. The second is Arvow's paid Automatic Backlinks feature (about $149), which pools thousands of users publishing articles through the platform and cross-links related content automatically, netting the creator 55 backlinks in a month with no outreach at all. The video argues the automatic route is less work and cheaper per link than manual guest posting, though it requires an Arvow subscription and the links come from a shared user pool rather than independently vetted sites.
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00:00 – 00:25
01 · 2 AI Methods to Get Backlinks (No Fiverr)
Cold open promising two AI-driven ways to earn backlinks without link farms or Fiverr sellers.
00:25 – 00:39
02 · Method 1: The Free Claude Skill
Introduces the first method: a downloadable Claude skill, offered free in exchange for commenting 'backlinks'.
00:39 – 01:04
03 · How to Download and Install It
The skill folder contains a competitor-backlink finder script, a guest-post-enrichment script, and a README; it's installed by dragging the folder into Claude's Skills page.
01:04 – 01:32
04 · Upload the Skill to Claude
Shows the skill appearing in Claude's Skills list after upload, ready to run.
01:32 – 01:56
05 · How It Works (Slash Command)
Running the skill via a slash command asks for your website URL and a few competitors, then automates the rest.
01:56 – 02:16
06 · What It Automates (Manual Google Search)
Demonstrates the manual process being automated: Googling '[niche]' plus 'guest post' in quotes.
02:16 – 02:44
07 · Finding Websites That Accept Guest Posts
Adds 'write for us' as a second search variant, surfacing hundreds of candidate sites.
02:44 – 03:42
08 · Copy the Requirements and Let Claude Write It
Walks through a typical site's guest-post requirements (word count, originality, formatting, no hard-selling), then pastes them into Claude with a request to write a matching post.
03:42 – 04:18
09 · Contacting Websites and Pricing
Explains that each site still needs individual outreach via its contact form or email, and pricing for placements varies site to site.
04:18 – 05:04
10 · This Manual Process Works But Takes Time
Notes the guest-post business model exists across every niche, but working through hundreds of sites individually is slow.
05:04 – 05:18
11 · Comment 'Backlinks' to Get the Skill Free
Repeats the lead-magnet ask: comment 'backlinks' to receive the free Claude skill download link.
05:18 – 05:34
12 · Method 2: Automatic Backlinks With Arvow
Introduces the second, more automated method using the Arvow platform.
05:34 – 06:10
13 · What Arvow Does (Full SEO Platform)
Tours Arvow as an end-to-end SEO platform: autoblogs that generate and publish articles, and integrations with Shopify, WordPress, and other builders.
06:10 – 06:37
14 · Site Optimizer, AI Citations, and More
Shows the Site Optimizer (technical SEO fixes) and LLM Brand Monitors, which track whether AI models like ChatGPT and Claude cite your site.
06:37 – 06:48
15 · The Automatic Backlinks Feature
Transitions to the feature being highlighted: automatic backlinks, shown on the Overview dashboard.
06:48 – 07:12
16 · 55 Backlinks Last Month on Autopilot
The Overview dashboard shows 55 earned backlinks in the last month with zero manual outreach.
07:12 – 07:32
17 · How the Pool of Thousands of Users Works
Explains the mechanism: a shared pool of Arvow users publishing content with external links enabled, cross-linking related niches automatically.
07:32 – 07:53
18 · These Are High Quality DR40+ Backlinks
Claims the backlinks are high quality because they come from active content creators in the pool, not throwaway link-farm pages.
07:53 – 08:11
19 · Relevance vs Volume Settings
Shows the Automatic Backlinks settings page: Relevance vs Volume receiving preference, plus an NSFW-source block.
08:11 – 08:37
20 · Why This Method Is Better Than Claude
Argues the automatic method beats the manual Claude-skill method because it removes outreach and per-post payment entirely.
08:37 – 08:49
21 · $149 vs Paying Per Guest Post
States the automatic-backlinks plan costs roughly $149 and yields at least one backlink a day, argued to be cheaper than paying per individual guest post.
08:49 – 08:58
22 · Outro
Sign-off: link and coupon code in the description, like/subscribe ask, points to another video.
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- A free Claude skill can automate the entire manual process of finding guest-post opportunities: searching '[niche] guest post' and 'write for us' queries, then drafting a post to match each site's rules.
- Google-based guest-post hunting works by searching the niche keyword plus 'guest post' or 'write for us' in quotes, which surfaces hundreds of sites actively accepting outside content.
- Most guest-post sites publish nearly identical submission rules: 1,000+ original words, clear headings, no grammar mistakes (checked with Grammarly), and no hard-selling or thinly veiled advertising.
- Manual guest posting still requires contacting every site individually through its own contact form or email, and many charge a per-placement fee that adds up fast at volume.
- The fastest way to draft a compliant guest post is to paste a site's own published guidelines into Claude and ask it to write a post that follows those exact rules for your URL.
- Arvow's Automatic Backlinks feature works by pooling thousands of users who publish articles through the platform; when a user enables external links, the system prioritizes linking to other pool members in a related niche.
- The creator reports 55 backlinks earned in one month, and a lifetime total of 216 backlinks from 108 unique sources across 86 pages, entirely on autopilot.
- Automatic backlinks can be tuned toward Relevance (fewer, more topically matched links) or Volume (more backlinks, less relevance), with an NSFW-source block available for brand safety.
- Arvow prices the automatic-backlink feature at roughly $149, pitched as cheaper than paying per guest post individually once volume adds up.
- The same platform also tracks whether a website gets cited by AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok — a visibility metric layered on top of traditional search rankings.
- Automatic-backlink quality is claimed to track the linking site's own domain rating, on the theory that sites already publishing content through the platform tend to have decent DR, traffic, or age.
- The backlink pool model can serve any niche — SaaS, HVAC, fashion, e-commerce — since it only needs other users publishing related content through the same platform.
- The manual Claude-skill method is framed as free but time-consuming; the automatic Arvow method is framed as paid but nearly hands-off.
Two ways to build backlinks without paying link farms.
WHAT TO LEARN
Manual guest-post outreach and network-based automatic backlinks are both viable alternatives to buying links, and the automatic route trades a subscription fee for dramatically less ongoing effort.
02Method 1: The Free Claude Skill
- A Claude skill is just a folder of script files and a README you drag-and-drop into Claude's Skills settings, and Claude installs and understands the whole workflow itself.
03How to Download and Install It
- The skill folder for this workflow contains a backlink-finder script and a guest-post-enrichment script, but a user doesn't need to read the code, just upload the folder.
04Upload the Skill to Claude
- Once uploaded, a skill shows up in Claude's Skills list and can be triggered with a slash command in any new chat, same as a built-in feature.
05How It Works (Slash Command)
- Running the skill prompts you for your website URL and a few competitors, then Claude runs the entire guest-post-finding process automatically from that input.
06What It Automates (Manual Google Search)
- The skill automates a manual search pattern: Google '[your niche]' plus 'guest post' in quotes, which surfaces sites actively looking for outside contributors.
07Finding Websites That Accept Guest Posts
- Adding 'write for us' as a second search variant widens the list of sites accepting outside content, and a single niche search can return hundreds of candidates.
08Copy the Requirements and Let Claude Write It
- Nearly every guest-post site publishes the same shape of rules: 1,000+ original words, clear headings, no grammar mistakes (checked with Grammarly), and no thinly veiled advertising.
- The fastest path to a compliant draft is pasting a site's own submission guidelines into Claude and asking it to write a guest post that follows those exact rules for your URL.
09Contacting Websites and Pricing
- Every guest-post site still has to be contacted individually through its own contact form or email, and pricing is set per-site rather than standardized.
- Guest-post placements are frequently paid, and costs vary widely from site to site — this is not a free-outreach channel even with an AI-drafted post.
10This Manual Process Works But Takes Time
- The guest-post business model exists across virtually every niche (SaaS, software, e-commerce, fashion), so the supply of willing sites is large but so is the time cost of working through them one by one.
11Comment 'Backlinks' to Get the Skill Free
- Giving away a working tool in exchange for a comment is a low-friction lead-generation tactic — it converts curiosity into an engagement action before the pitch for the paid product arrives.
12Method 2: Automatic Backlinks With Arvow
- Trading manual outreach for a subscription-based automated system is positioned as more effective specifically because it removes the contact-and-negotiate step entirely.
13What Arvow Does (Full SEO Platform)
- Beyond backlinks, an SEO platform can auto-generate and publish articles, integrate with site builders like Shopify and WordPress, and run a site optimizer that suggests technical fixes like meta titles and alt text.
14Site Optimizer, AI Citations, and More
- AI citation tracking (whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, or Grok mention your brand) is emerging as a visibility metric alongside traditional search rankings.
15The Automatic Backlinks Feature
- A dashboard that reports generated/published article counts and total earned backlinks side by side makes the ROI of a paid SEO feature visible at a glance.
1655 Backlinks Last Month on Autopilot
- 55 backlinks in a single month with zero manual outreach is a direct dashboard readout, not a self-reported estimate — worth noting when a tool's own dashboard is the only evidence source.
17How the Pool of Thousands of Users Works
- A shared-pool backlink mechanism works by cross-linking members: when any user publishes content with external links enabled, the system prioritizes linking to other pool members in a matching niche, and the same happens in reverse.
18These Are High Quality DR40+ Backlinks
- Because linking sites are other users actively publishing content rather than throwaway link-farm pages, the argument is that backlink quality tracks the linking site's own domain rating, traffic, and age — though this is the vendor's own claim, not third-party verified.
19Relevance vs Volume Settings
- A Relevance setting produces fewer but more topically matched backlinks, while a Volume setting maximizes count at the cost of topical fit — plus an NSFW-source block for brand safety.
20Why This Method Is Better Than Claude
- The core sales argument: manual guest-post outreach still requires contacting sites and often paying per placement, while an automated pool-based system removes both once you're subscribed.
21$149 vs Paying Per Guest Post
- At roughly $149, an automatic-backlinks plan can be pitched as cheaper per backlink than paying multiple individual guest-post fees, assuming you need volume rather than a handful of hand-picked placements.
Terms worth knowing.
- Backlink
- A hyperlink from another website pointing to your site, used by search engines as a signal of authority and relevance when ranking pages.
- Domain Rating (DR)
- A third-party score estimating a website's overall backlink authority; higher-DR sites are generally considered more valuable sources of a backlink.
- Guest post
- An article you write and submit to someone else's website in exchange for publication credit and usually a link back to your own site.
- Claude skill
- A packaged folder of instructions and scripts uploaded into Claude so it can run a repeatable, specialized workflow — here, finding guest-post opportunities and drafting posts.
- Automatic backlinks (Arvow)
- A paid Arvow feature that links your site into content published by other users on the platform, generating backlinks without manual outreach.
- AI citation tracking
- Monitoring whether AI chat models like ChatGPT or Claude mention or cite your brand when answering user questions, treated as a visibility metric alongside search rankings.
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00:25toolFree Claude skill for guest-post backlink finding (get it by commenting "backlinks")
01:57toolGoogle search operators ("[niche]" + "guest post" / "write for us")
02:30toolGrammarly
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“So this is going to be insane value if you want to grow backlinks to your website.”
04:20
“This manual process is very time consuming, okay, because there are literally hundreds of websites doing the same thing.”
06:43
“I've received already 55 backlinks to my website.”
08:32
“you literally just pay I think 149 dollars and you will have at least one backlink a day”
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So this is going to be insane value if you want to grow backlinks to your website. So in today's video, I'm going to share with you two methods using AI on how you can get backlinks without having to trust sketchy sources like backlink farms or like Fiverr backlinks that are super low quality and you will have control over the whole process.
And the first method I'm going to share with you, we're going to use Cloud. going to be a workflow that you're going to install into cloud and by the way if you want access to this skill right here okay it's a drive a google drive file that will just need to download and then install it into cloud i need you to comment back links in the comment section and i will send it to you okay the file contains a folder with the following files first we have a python script that will find your competitor backlinks then it's gonna have a python script as well with the guest post enrichment file and lastly you will have a readme so you can understand but the truth is that you don't need anything you just need to download the file you open your cloud you come here to skills you click here to add a skill you're gonna upload the skill and you just drop the folder here and cloud will understand the full process and install it for you after that you're gonna come here to your skills and you will have your guest post finder you can see here the skill okay it has some code but it's literally the only thing you need and then if you want to use it you simply click here start a new chat you click slash and you use your guest post finder
This will then ask you for your website URL and for some competitors. So Claude can do the whole process. And basically what it's going to automate, it's the following manual process.
So if you're trying to find websites that are willing to give you a backlink in a guest post format, you can do so by coming here to Google, use the quotes and search for your niche and then guest post. or you can also use the right for us keyword okay and once you do that it's going to show like literally hundreds of websites they are willing to accept guest posts in exchange for money of course you have to pay for them but you open the link right here And you will have the conditions and requirements for backlinks.
Okay. They usually have like some recommendations, some do's and don'ts. For example, the article should have more than 1000 words and be 100 % original.
The content should have some headings and be formatted logically. We'd like you to check your content with Grammarly to ensure no grammar mistakes and so on. You have some recommendations here.
You have some requirements. And what I recommend, you're doing it's literally you copy all the requirements of these websites and by the way they all look the same if i open other like it will be pretty much the same thing you will have some requirements what the contributors do not receive what contributors receive like some rules and criteria for these websites but what i recommend is you simply just copy you paste it in the clause and you ask him to write a guest post write a guest post guest post following this criteria for my website and then you add your site .com you add your website and cloud takes care of the guest post generation for you and you don't have to worry about any requirements Regarding the price, they depend, okay?
Each site has their own pricing. So what you have to do is you're going to open each one of them and then you're going to use their contact form. They all will have an email address or a contact form.
And then you're going to just give them your website and say that you want a guest post. So this is what you could do if you want to do this process manually. If you want to use the cloud skill, it's literally what it automates.
You will have a bunch of websites and it will create the drafts for you to send them so you can get more information on the backlinks that you want. And this is how you can use Cloud AI. to get backlinks for your website.
This manual process is very time consuming, okay, because there are literally hundreds of websites doing the same thing. This is some kind of business model. And it doesn't matter what niche you are, if you are like in the SaaS niche, if you are in the software, if you are, I don't know, like any other website, you will have websites willing to give you backlinks e commerce as well.
Let's say for example, I don't know, fashion stores, like you can submit free articles on fashion, you can share your fashion experience, so on. I think you understand the point.
This is how you can use cloud to grow backlinks to your website. So if you want this cloud skill right here, so you can download and install it into cloud in a matter of seconds, just comment backlinks in the comment section and I will send you this link completely for free so you can start today. Now the second method I have to share with you, it's in my opinion the most effective because it's even more automated.
and for that we're going to use the arvo platform by the way if you don't know what arvo is arvo is an end -to -end seo automation platform okay it uses ai for most of its future and you have things such as like autoblogs that will automatically generate articles for your website and publish them directly there okay it integrates with a bunch of website builders like shopify wordpress and so on you have all these website builders that you can connect to arvo to publish your articles automatically you also have like things like the site optimizer that will read all the pages of your website and suggest you technical SEO fixes like meta titles meta descriptions image alt text article schemas and so on and then you can apply them automatically all directly using this live code you can also Track if your website is being cited and mentioned by AI LLM models like ChatGPT, Cloud, Gemini.
Let me check the others. They have a bunch of them. You can check also Perplexity and Grog, if I'm not mistaken.
And you can see literally like how well your brand is visible for AI models. But the feature that I want to highlight today, it's the automatic backlinks. Okay, so you can see that last month.
I've received already 55 backlinks to my website. And if you don't know how it works, it works by connecting a pool of thousands of users creating content with Arvo. So when you generate an article with Arvo, you will have the option of having external links enabled.
When you're adding these external links, if there is another website in the pool that relates to your niche or to your content, those will get a priority and they will end up receiving a backlink. And the same will apply to you. So if you are an HVAC company and you have some other user writing articles about HVAC, you will have a backlink from that article.
And these are high quality backlinks, okay? Majority of websites using Arvo have already some DR because creating content grows or DR any or traffic. And you can see here.
I'm not going to share the full links because this is sensitive information that backlinks are being literally created every single day. And this will boost your traffic by a lot. There's also some settings you can configure.
For example, if you want more backlinks or if you want to focus on relevance and you will get less backlinks, but they will be more relevant to your niche. And you can even like block NSFW, not safe for work backlinks. You don't add non -compliant things to your website.
that is the strategy guys you really don't need to do much to get these automatic backlinks working for you 24 7. in my opinion this method is better than the cloud one because with the cloud one you have to contact these websites and on top of that you have to pay them for these guest posts and some of them really are expensive and will charge you a fortune whereas where if you're using the automatic backlinks from arvo you literally just pay i think 149 dollars and you will have at least one backlink a day created for to your website so in my opinion much more worth it i recommend you guys trying so i will leave a link in the description so you can do it today i will also include the coupon code so you can get a discount and try it for cheaper hope you guys enjoyed this video please leave a like and subscribe the channel if you found this useful don't forget to watch this next and i see you on the next one
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The pitch: skip the backlink farms and Fiverr gigs entirely. This video walks through a free Claude skill that automates guest-post hunting, then pivots to the creator's own paid platform, which delivered 55 backlinks in a month without a single outreach email.
Named ideas worth stealing.
00:00list
Two AI methods to get backlinks
- Method 1: free Claude skill (manual outreach, automated drafting)
- Method 2: Arvow Automatic Backlinks (paid, fully automated)
The video's organizing structure: a free but labor-intensive AI-assisted method, contrasted with a paid but hands-off automated method.
Steal forany content on comparing a free DIY workflow against a paid automated tool for the same outcome
02:24list
Guest-post submission checklist (DO's and DON'Ts)
- 1,000+ words, 100% original
- logically formatted with headings
- grammar-checked (Grammarly)
- no hard-selling or overt advertising
- follow each site's specific contributor rules
The recurring requirements pattern shown across multiple guest-post sites' 'Write for Us' pages.
Steal forany guest-post or content-partnership pitch
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
08:03product
“I will leave a link in the description so you can do it today. I will also include the coupon code so you can get a discount and try it for cheaper.”
Soft, single-mention close pointing to Arvow's paid ~$149 automatic-backlinks plan with a discount coupon. A separate, earlier lead-magnet CTA (comment 'backlinks' to get the free Claude skill) runs at 289-317s, before the pitch for the paid feature begins.
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FROM THE DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
OTHER LINKSAlso linked in the description.
Visual structure at a glance.
