How effective is backlinking?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by catrobbery, May 2, 2012.

  1. #1
    So im ranking for a keyword with 2900 average monthly searches.
    My website is VERY SEO friendly
    I want to rank top 10 in google, so I need backlinks.
    Can you genius' help me out with the following questions:

    How effective are backlinks?(how many to rank top 10 with a 2,900 keyword)
    Does the site where you place your backlink's content have to relate to your content?
    Where should I start backlinking?

    Thanks
     
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  2. GMTGuy

    GMTGuy Greenhorn

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    No one really knows for sure because of the recent penguin update. My advice to you though is generate backlinks slower than you would have in the past(assuming your domain is relatively new). 5-20 a day probably should be max. In terms of getting to the front page that really depends on the competition for the keywords you're targeting.
     
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  3. seafrontsteve

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    A good starting point is to check out how many backlinks by pagerank each of the existing url's on page 1 google have.
    Tools like Market Samurai (they used to have a free trial offer) make this a breeze.
    That will probably give you the best clue on what you need to do in the way of backlinks to replace one of the sites presently on page 1 for your target keyword.
     
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  4. jssalinger

    jssalinger Greenhorn

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    From my own experience:

    How effective are backlinks?(how many to rank top 10 with a 2,900 keyword) - A backlink is only as effective as the amount of traffic it sends to your site or how much it helps you to rise in the search engine rankings.

    Does the site where you place your backlink's content have to relate to your content? - It makes a difference because you should be using anchor text with your main keyword to link back to your site.

    Where should I start backlinking? Start with blog commenting. You can set up RSS feeds using Google Reader to keep up with the leading sites in your niche that you can comment on.
     
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  5. JerrickYeoh

    JerrickYeoh Active Member

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    Yeap, you can gain more weight of SEO effect by build backlink on those site with target the same thing , related topic and keywords.
    Beside that you should target high PR , Relevant website and dofollow link.
    Most of people focus on article submit and guest post.
     
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  6. kayakalp

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    Yes friend back link is more effect full.
    Making Relevant Back Link Like.
    Directory Submission.
    Article Submission.
    Forum Posting.
     
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  7. ViralExpand

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    Depends on your keyword and competition.

    Not necessarily. But backlinks from relevant content does have a higher weight than backlinks from totally irrelevant content.

    Blog comments are a good start.
     
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  8. IM TYCOON

    IM TYCOON Member

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    first backlinks create the authority of your site to google
    and yes content should relate to the backlinks
    article marketing is the better option to start a backlink campaign
     
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  9. rubeljoy

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    Back links are important for getting good PR. It's better to get good rank if you can manage back links from good ranked site. Quantity of back links is important but more important is the quality of that back links. And about relevance, It's better if your back link came from similar contents.
     
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  10. Celtivo

    Celtivo Well-Known Member

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    Try to forget about backlinks for now, and spend most of your time creating QUALITY content for your website. As long as your content is good, your backlinks will take care of themselves. This doesn't mean you shouldnt submit articles to article directories or anything, but dont be taking backlink building too seriously.

    The way Google is going, backlinks are becoming worth less and less.
     
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  11. Soumyananda

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    Back links help in building PR of a site.It's also help in increasing traffic.
     
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    abid12345 Peon

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  13. salaka

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    hi
    Backlinks is very important getting them rank is another because Google sometimes don't index them so you need to build backlinks to backlinks, and before that you need to look at PR of the sites , you need good EDU blog back links as well
     
    salaka, Jun 26, 2012 IP
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    It's impossible to give an exact number of back links for a first-page ranking. There're too many factors involved in this, such as search amount(2900 in your case here), competition, quality of your back links, etc. But there is one thing for sure that back links are indispensable for your ranking. More relevant ones can be more powerful in pushing you up, while others make your back links look more natural as long as they are not coming from some paid link farm.
     
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    my advice would be to build high quality back links to your site. Try guest posting or creating some social bookmarks (to high PR sites) and make sure not to spam your link everywhere. If you build the links the right way and stay away from senuke blasts and such you should start seeing positive results.
     
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    Backlinks are very effective in improving your page rank. Backlinks should be from websites that are related to your topic. Unrelated sites don't provide as much link juice. If your page is about dogs and you are getting a link for another dog site, that is more valuable than getting a link to your page from a tile store, for example.

    Do the proper keyword research to find keywords and keyword phrases that you can target. Writing guest posts and linking back to your site is one of the best ways to get started. It has the benefit of building relationships with other bloggers as well as building backlinks. Those relationships will come in very handy later on when you want to spread the word about a new blog post, product, or whatever.
     
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  17. wuken

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    Paid traffic is more critical in my opinion for tangible results. Backlinks take a long term to bring serious value to the site. It is best to buy links from high PR page if it matters to you.
     
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    Yes if your content is not relevant to your keyword, then it is clearly considered to be as, spamming. Many websites may banned your IP address for future.
     
    Last edited: Jun 27, 2012
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    mparkar26 Banned

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    Back-links always help you to increase traffic on your website. First of all, search a website which is having good rank and is related to your business. when a user come on this website he may come to your website too. and this is how you are actually getting more traffic in to your website.
     
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    Backlinks are important, but not as important as high quality content.Also the exact number of backlinks you need really depends on 1. Your competitors and 2. The Quality of your Backlinks.The quality of your backlinks depends on a lot of things, most important is the site where the backlink is itself, the anchor text, ..., and a lot more. If you want to rank and be on the save site, create backlinks slowly.. even though there are people pushing 1000 of links per day to their site.. i think with the last update a lot changed but you can't generally say what is good and what is bad.
     
    SchenkerF, Jun 27, 2012 IP