Backlink Strategy

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

Priority Destination URLs

  • 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.