As someone who used white hat SEO to drive over 150k in monthly traffic for years in a row, I very much enjoyed reading this article. Quite simply, the hacking mindset that goes behind the outline of this entire process is valuable even for someone who knows his SEO.

Few things to add though.

First, assuming that the page we are trying to rank finally gets there, we must have user intent already figured out. From personal experience, most industries cannot get away with a single landing page, or the homepage of a new startup. Valuable content is always better at satisfying users’ intent. In addition,it also becomes a linking resource on its own.

From a linker-gatherer point of view, as much as web 2.0 properties and comments can generate some traction, a better bet would be to invest additional time in creating 10X content. Something so good people can’t ignore. In terms of scale, this can bring back multiple times the links any other method would otherwise.

Just look at what BuiltVisible have in their showcase gallery (amazing company btw) https://builtvisible.com/our-work/ -each example managed to bring at least dozens of high quality mentions around the web, and skyrocket organic rankings.