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Describing the target concretely makes it easier to diagnose your own. What a good backlink profile looks like: most anchors branded or naked URLs, exact-match commercial phrases well under a fifth of the total, the majority of referring domains carrying real organic traffic, topical concentration in your field with plausible outliers, links spread across many pages rather than the homepage alone, and an acquisition curve tracking things you actually did — a launch, a study, a piece of coverage.