My new backlinks are all ads.

By Geronimo · 7 November 2026

Every morning I check the new backlinks of my sites and competitors. 3 new backlinks! One of them: dapoxetine.cyou. What?

dapoxetine.cyou: 'Grow Your Traffic Audience and Views with Pinterest Automation' — dapoxetine.cyou. Single page with ~3,000 outbound links

dapoxetine is a treatment for premature ejaculation

But that's not what they're selling here.

That .cyou domain (cheap) links to 3,000 random pages. The link to mine reads:

Best Pinterest Tool SiteToSocial.com to Grow Your Website Traffic Fully Automated

The link is meant for me to notice. They want me to buy their marketing tool.

Almost all domains lead to two companies

Domain	Selling	Spam	DR
websquemolan.com	CVGorilla	60	0
onvaxs.com	CVGorilla	60	11
gameeffect.xyz	SiteToSocial	90	0.2
dapoxetine.cyou	SiteToSocial	70	1
sylexsoftware.xyz	SiteToSocial	90	0
theforbestimes.com	CVGorilla	60	2.6
thcradar.com	CVGorilla	60	0
thedocmag.com	CVGorilla	60	7
betulcrime.com	CVGorilla	60	15
betwinnermirror.com	CVGorilla	70	0
quotesblom.com	CVGorilla	60	8
archive-hu.com	CVGorilla	60	3.5
dbike-us.com	CVGorilla	60	0.1
clifflisting.com	CVGorilla	70	0
uncledspizza.com	CVGorilla	60	23
techbumppy.com	CVGorilla	60	0
sahammurah.com	CVGorilla	60	0
homesforsaleoldgreenwichct.com	CVGorilla	70	22
ggmap.us.com	CVGorilla	60	0
fashionclothingnews.com	CVGorilla	70	0.2
dupurgeniefr.com	CVGorilla	60	0
cvillico.com	CVGorilla	60	26
bureatag.com	CVGorilla	60	13
bestnz-poker-casinoslot.com	CVGorilla	70	0.6
m98ufa.com	CVGorilla	75	53
growyoursitetraffic.shop	SiteToSocial	80	0
kernelpanicpodcast.com	CVGorilla	70	0.8
sergechel.info	sergechel	60	1.6
plumeriamarketing.com	CVGorilla	70	22

Spam: DataForSEO backlink spam score, 0–100. DR: free Ahrefs Domain Rating API with version=dr4, 7 November 2026.

Who's selling what

CVGorilla. All their sites use the same template: "Boost your Google rankings with Premium PBN & Link Building" and an "Order Backlinks Now" button to cvgorilla.com.

websquemolan.com: 'Boost your Google rankings with Premium PBN & Link Building', with an 'Order Backlinks Now' button — websquemolan.com, DR 0. "Self-owned aged domains with DA 30 to 70+".

CVGorilla sells:

Guest posts from $30
"High DA/DR Expired Domains" from $100

Orders go over a Telegram bot and WhatsApp. The domain is from June 2026. The site promises "100% Manual Work. No bots". That's a bold claim when your ads are 3,000-link pages.

cvgorilla.com: 'We make Google's crawlers notice you', with Telegram and WhatsApp buttons — cvgorilla.com. 350+ sites ranked, 10+ years of experience, domain registered in June.

SiteToSocial. A Pinterest automation tool "from just 3 dollars per month". dapoxetine.cyou, gameeffect.xyz and sylexsoftware.xyz were registered on 31 October within two seconds of each other. Five days later they linked to most of the sites I track.

sitetosocial.com: 'The Pinterest automation tool that pins your website on autopilot' — sitetosocial.com. Note the "Affiliate" link in the menu.

Where the DR comes from

All domains I could look up are registered at Namecheap with WHOIS privacy, between May and October 2026. Most have DR 0. A few don't. uncledspizza.com (DR 26) was a wood-fired pizza place in Washington. m98ufa.com (DR 53) was a Thai betting site until late 2025 and that DR is still there.

Wayback Machine capture of Uncle D's Wood Fired Pizza from July 2013 — uncledspizza.com in July 2013. Today: "Premium PBN Network Service".

Is the internet an ad?

What are we even doing here?

Call me naive but a few months ago I believed the "honest reviews" and "10 Best Photo Enhancers in 2026". Now I wonder: What's the point of scrolling past "Sponsored results" if all the other stuff on Google's page 1 is also paid for? Pushed by paid blog posts and expired DR50 domains. The more I dig into SEO the more disillusioned I get.

Every day 10 new young and trash domains pop up with a link to my websites. That says a lot. There's an entire industry just waiting for me to check my backlinks and lure me into buying their services. They build entire Private Blog Networks (PBN) to manipulate SEO rankings.

Founders are desperate for visibility on the web. I get that. Especially now with AI coding agents anyone can quickly turn an idea into reality. "Building" a SaaS tool is the easy part. The real moat is attention. But it's not like getting seen is hard and honest work, cold outreach, convincing blog authors to mention your awesome product. No. It's just expensive. Visibility is just another expense.

This is not a big surprise to the SEO popes on Twitter, but: The internet seems to be just a big ad.

Chat: 'I mean wtf are we doing here' – 'Exactly. I always said to people that knowledge is frustrating. You know now and you're angry' — am I the last one to discover this?

Tweet by Simon Høiberg: 'It's interesting how many people think organic marketing is actually free. I hate you break it to you, but the vast majority of organic stuff you see is paid. It's not much different than paid ads, it's just less out in the open. Word of mouth and product led growth are exception cases now, it's mostly all pay-to-play.' — Simon Høiberg knows.

That's a painful realization.