docs/backlink_strategy.md

# Backlink Strategy

Goal: increase discoverability of Pashto AI resources by earning high-quality links to this repository and its searchable pages.

## Priority Destination URLs

- Home page: [Pashto Language Resources home](https://musawer1214.github.io/pashto-language-resources/)
- Search page: [Pashto resource search](https://musawer1214.github.io/pashto-language-resources/search/)
- Repository: [Musawer1214/pashto-language-resources](https://github.com/Musawer1214/pashto-language-resources)

## Link Building Targets

- Pashto/NLP community resource lists.
- University lab pages working on low-resource languages.
- Research paper reproducibility pages (appendix/code links).
- Awesome-list maintainers for speech/NLP resources.
- Hugging Face model and dataset cards that reference this hub.

## Outreach Plays

1. Documentation backlinks
- Add this repository to relevant READMEs and curated resource pages.
- Ask collaborators to link specific intent pages (datasets, ASR, TTS).

2. Research backlinks
- When publishing results, include repository + exact page links in `Code` and `Data availability` sections.

3. Community backlinks
- Share monthly update posts with direct links to release notes and search page.

## Anchor Text Guidance

Preferred anchors:
- Pashto language resources
- Pashto ASR resources
- Pashto TTS resources
- Pashto datasets

Avoid repeated exact-match overuse; vary naturally.

## Tracking

Track monthly in a simple sheet:

- Source URL
- Destination URL
- Anchor text
- Domain type (academic, community, code, media)
- Date added
- Follow-up status

## KPI Targets (Quarterly)

- 15+ new relevant referring pages.
- 3+ new links from academic/lab domains.
- Increased branded queries for `pashto-language-resources`.
- Higher impressions for `pashto datasets`, `pashto asr`, `pashto tts`.

## Related Docs

- [Discoverability and SEO](discoverability_seo.md)
- [GitHub topics checklist](github_topics_checklist.md)
- [Release process](release_process.md)