Backlink Review
399 Links. Not One That Helps You.
Accelerate Marketing’s link building, September 2025 to February 2026
Accelerate’s $1,500 a month Local SEO line includes “Building and correcting citations” and “Building Backlinks”. Here is what that link building produced.
Where links like these come from: cheap bulk link packages, bought from low-quality overseas link farms. Thousands of sites get the same treatment, which is exactly why Google ignores them.
How we checked: these are the links Accelerate listed in its own monthly reports. We visited every one. 168 still point at your website today; the rest have already been deleted or can’t be found.
“Link spam is the practice of creating links to or from a site primarily for the purpose of manipulating search rankings.”
Google’s spam policy names the exact types in these reports: forum comments with keyword links, bookmark sites, and low-value pages made only to hold a link. Google ignores them at best.
Every one is listed in Accelerate’s own reports and was checked live on 6 October 2026.
Some of these pages are spam (pharmacy, crypto). Look, but don’t click anything on them or download anything.
City hall websites don’t link to local businesses, which is why that idea has stalled. The real version is your local chamber of commerce: members get a directory listing that links to their website. We checked every chamber in your area, and Better Way isn’t listed in any of them yet.
Then work through the rest, one a month:
| Town | Chamber | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Middlebury | Middlebury Chamber | Ask |
| South Bend, Mishawaka | South Bend Regional Chamber | By staff size |
| Warsaw | Kosciusko Chamber | Ask |
| Syracuse | Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber | $250 |
| Auburn | DeKalb Chamber Partnership | $300 |
| Sturgis, MI | Sturgis Area Chamber | Ask |
| Three Rivers, MI | Three Rivers Area Chamber | $235 |
| Coldwater, MI | Branch County Area Chamber | Ask |
Sponsoring a local team or event? Ask for a link to your website as part of the deal.