Why Paid Backlinks Aren't Raising Your Rankings: A 7-Step Ahrefs Deep Dive for Mid-Size SEO Teams

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1) Why your backlink spend can look productive on paper but do nothing in Google You bought links. Ahrefs shows thousands of backlinks and a rising domain rating. Yet rankings are flat. This is the most common mid-size company horror story