My site has been up about 2 and a bit months. Only recently, maybe a month ago switch to my new site design and layout. Anyways on the iwebtool pr predictor (also on my site) says I have 2,037 backlinks and a predicted pr of 4 (not too bothered). What I ask is: Is 2,037 any good for a couple months and if not should I be doing things to get it increasing at a more rapid rate? Also if my backlinks are increasing at a similar rate since I release lots of templates and skins for free with my site link which is supposed to remain should my traffic increase? At the moment for this month I average slightly over 80 uniques which isn't much so I am looking to increase it. Hopefully it increases over time or do I need to do some things to make sure that it does? My site is: http://www.webmaster-files.com. I know that it isnt particularly SE optimized but I have done some things to try to make that better.
2k links sounds pretty good to me. Maybe too many? You need to be careful about having too many links to your site too quickly as it will look like spam - not sure what the threshold for this is though. Quality of links is more important the quantity anyway.
I did have a couple pr 6 sites and some 5,4,3 sites linking to my site. Partners with my site but a couple of them removed the links. I do have overall a lot of of sitewide links with good sites which contributes to the high value. Also my phpfusion skin brings a lot in.
Good Thanks for reply. Do I need to worry about my traffic increasing or will it happen naturally over time if I keep updating the site?
No nothing is for granted You have to worry about it daily but you must remain cool and give time to your efforts and don't indulge in black hat (short term boosting) techniques.
My website http://www.schrockinnovations.com has just 183 backlinks, but a PR 6. I would say quality is far superior to quantity.
Yeah I have link exchanged with quite decent sites concidering I have 0 PR. I just generate a lot of backlinks through my skins and templates.
I've probably been promoting my personal blog for a similar period of time (perhaps slightly longer) and at the last check I had 81 backlinks. Despite this my unique visitors per month from July have been 44, 275, 879 and then this month currently stands at 1330. Most of my links are, I suspect, from forum posts directly relating to the topic about which I post and as such I rank highly in the search engines for some of these topics. It sounds as if you've been a victim of your own success in some ways, you've got a successful template which you are distributing and it's bringing in a suspiciously large number of backlinks. I know I drew a parallel between your site and mine but it was slightly false as although I've only just started my new blog I've owned the domain name for a couple of years at least. I suspect that in a few months your traffic will start picking up considerably, once the search engines realise the backlinks are genuine. One thing that might be worth checking is the anchor text used in the links to your site in the templates. The overture keyword selector tool suggests that there are only 165 searches through their system for 'Free Webmaster Resource'.
Well i have my blog for less then 6 weeks and has 2.4K baclinks and PR5 predicted i'm waiting to see how things go On the other way quantity vs quality i think quality is the best way
Are you checking backlinks in Google or Yahoo! that sounds pretty awesome for Google. I launched this site about four months ago and it still shows no backlinks in Google -- http://www.google.com/search?q=link:www.mapforums.com Eric
Do not use google to check your backlinks.. use yahoo or MSn instead... If you want to use google link: feature to check when your backlinks are updated by google.. use their www.google.com/alert feature to create and alert with link: yourdomain.com choose the options <as it happens> and <web> and google will alert you when it updates backlinks to your website
iwebtool is showing you as having 2,650 backlinks and PR6. Where are you getting 183? Anyway, congrats on the PR6!