Why Buying 200 Links Didn’t Help — and Why the First 10-20 Backlinks Actually Mattered Most

https://stateofseo.com/why-seo-managers-who-bought-backlinks-but-saw-flat-rankings-keep-hitting-walls-with-stakeholders/

How a $600K ARR SaaS Brand Spent $42,000 on Links and Hit an Organic Ceiling Meet FlowWorks, a B2B SaaS company that hit $600,000 ARR in year three. They wanted faster growth and hired a growth agency that promised “scale with links