Other content such as research pieces also generate lots of links because they serve as references for other content to link back to.

This research article got nearly 150 referring domains and 700 backlinks in the first week.

As a result, it’s ranking on page 1 of the SERPs for multiple terms:

Having fast link velocity isn’t necessarily bad, and in these cases, attracting lots of quality links quickly resulted in some great rankings.

Myth #3 “If a link comes from a site that’s not exactly my niche I’ll get penalized.”

There are a lot of misconceptions out there regarding link relevancy.