Advanced Link Training: Bill Hartzer Launches Free Link Building Resource

LinkBill HartzerResource

Bill Hartzer has launched Advanced Link Training, an openly accessible educational resource covering link building. It provides 50 lessons across 9 modules along with risk-graded breakdowns of 34 tactics, backed by two decades of organic backlink data.

Key points

  1. Completely free resource with no registration, email gating, or upsells.
  2. Features 50 lessons divided into 9 modules covering foundations, quality assessment, prospecting, outreach, digital PR, measurement, and future trends.
  3. Categorises 34 tactics across three acquisition types (earned, outreach, placed) and four risk levels (safe, situational, high risk, obsolete).
  4. Supported by an empirical analysis of 1,301,839 organic backlinks from 22,260 referring domains gathered over 20 years without buying links.
  5. Data reveals the median referring domain stops linking after 1,080 days; 97.4% of lost links vanished while the source page remained live, and 69.3% of referring domains had Trust Flow 0.

Why it matters

Link building education is frequently obscured by commercial vendor pitches and undisclosed operational risks. This course offers an evidence-based overview of sustainable tactics and provides empirical benchmarks for link decay and profile quality.

Analysis

By highlighting that 97.4% of lost links disappear from live, ranking pages rather than via 404 errors, Hartzer challenges standard assumptions regarding link reclamation. The explicit classification of tactics into clear risk categories assists practitioners in avoiding harmful practices such as private blog networks.

Mentioned links

Found in

Summary generated by AI (Gemini 3.8 Flash, 27 September 2026). It may contain errors – the original source is authoritative.

Related entries

Similar in content, found by the AI search.

  • X post:Bill Hartzer

    Advanced Link Training: Free Link Building Course by Bill Hartzer

    SEO veteran Bill Hartzer has released 'Advanced Link Training', a completely free link building resource containing 50 lessons across 9 modules and assessments of 34 link building tactics, requiring no signup or email submission.

    545bookmarks23.5kviews

    SEO & content· Resource

  • X post:Daniel Ehrhardt

    AutoSEO: Open-Source AI Visibility Tool Without Per-Prompt Fees

    Daniel Ehrhardt announced AutoSEO, an open-source AI visibility and SEO tool that includes all features without per-seat or per-prompt fees. It can be self-hosted for free or used as a managed service.

    86bookmarks65.8kviews

    SEO & content· Tool

  • Link:specification.website

    The Website Specification: Open Reference for Modern Web Standards and Best Practices

    The Website Specification (specification.website) is a platform-agnostic, open-source guide licensed under MIT, detailing the technical features a good website should implement. It spans HTML foundations, SEO, accessibility, security, and agent readiness, offering direct Markdown access, an MCP server, and an Agent Skill.

    Web development· Resource

  • X post:0xMarioNawfal

    Anthropic Releases Free Course on Loop Engineering

    According to a post by 0xMarioNawfal, Anthropic has released a free educational course on Loop Engineering aimed at developers working with AI agents.

    AI & LLMs· Resource

Back to the knowledge base

Let's talk about your project

Get in touch

Locations

  • Mattersburg
    Johann Nepomuk Bergerstraße 7/2/14
    7210 Mattersburg, Austria
  • Vienna
    Ungargasse 64-66/3/404
    1030 Wien, Austria

Parts of this content were created with the assistance of AI.