You measure links GAINED and never links LOST — amateur hour

You measure links GAINED and never links LOST — amateur hour

Everyone tracks acquisition velocity. Almost nobody tracks DECAY velocity. But a profile where 40% of your PBN links vanish in 90 days has a churn signature that screams "rented, not earned."

Rapid gain plus rapid loss is the fingerprint of bought links. Real editorial links are sticky.

Fix: monitor link survival rate monthly, and weight your budget toward sources that STAY indexed, not ones that flicker.

Net velocity is the number that matters, and you're not even calculating it. Prove me wrong.