You know you're doing SEO correctly when EVERY SINGLE BACKLINK contains the keywords you're targeting. No garbage anchor texts, no "click here" links, just links that will make you rank #1.
This is what SEO that I constructed and executed for my new online tools network looks like after 30 days of launching.
69 links (external and internal) to onlineSTRINGtools.com, all 69 contain keyword "string":

33 backlinks to onlineCSVtools.com, all 33 contain keyword "csv":

All other sites in the network have the same SEO.
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