Was buying those cheap directory links from Fiverr until a guy in my niche emailed me asking if I was trying to tank my own site, and after checking my backlink profile I saw 500 spam domains pointing at my homepage.
I spent last Wednesday comparing load times on my portfolio site, one page with my own lazy loading script and another using a free plugin from the repo. The plugin cut my Largest Contentful Paint by almost 40% according to Lighthouse, and it handled all the weird edge cases I kept missing. Anybody else waste a whole afternoon rolling their own solution when a plugin was the obvious call?
I've got the on-page SEO completely dialed in for my main project, but I'm struggling with off-page. Can anyone recommend a reliable company for acquiring quality links?