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43% -- share of top ranking websites using tiered link building for top-ranking websites (2025)
According to research from Ahrefs, 43% of top-ranking websites use a tiered link building strategy.
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43%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Geography
Global
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Ahrefs
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Tier C
https://jeenaminfotech.com/tiered-link-building/ ↗
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Tiered Link Building: Modern and Professional SEO Strategy
Have you ever felt discouraged when your website “still can’t rank” even though you’ve applied all the SEO strategies? Among the information forest and dozens of optimization methods, tiered link building is the “trump card” that helps you escape the ranking depression safely and effectively.
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IndustrySEO
RegionGlobal
RoleSEO Specialist
Channelsearch
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top-ranking websites: 43% share of top ranking websites using tiered link building. Source: Ahrefs (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/tiered-link-building-top-ranking-sites-ahrefs
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/tiered-link-building-top-ranking-sites-ahrefs" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>43%</strong> -- share of top ranking websites using tiered link building for top-ranking websites<br><small>Source: Ahrefs (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/tiered-link-building-top-ranking-sites-ahrefs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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