My site is somewhat new, about 4 months old, 0 PR, and about 70 incoming links. I am finally ready to do directory and article submissions, have about 10 articles written, but I've heard that a massive all over sudden appearing number of incoming links might seem suspicious to google. What is the best speed of receiving incoming links? To how many directories should I submit weekly-daily? Also, everybody seems to be submitting to multiple article directories. Will pages with articles receive a PR, if the same article is submitted, since this should be treated as plagiarism by Googly and, consequently, penalized?
I think that 50 links per day is ok with Google but if you look at the big site (lets say CNN) they get much more links and they are not penalized so nobody knows for sure.... p.l.u.r.
The important thing is for it to look natural. So start slowly and speed up over time. Make sure you have a long term plan though. It needs to be done on a regular basis. I'd say about 10 a day to begin with, moving up slowly to 50 a day after 6 months. Only the top few article directory submissions (e.g. ezinearticles.com) will count topwards your SEO - however if you have produced good quality articles, they will be published on hundreds of other email newsletters and relevant sites. The main positive of this is traffic (visitors to your site), not SEO. Finally, remember that if a story is good, everyone in that field will want to publish it. Don't worry too much about lots of article publications wanting to feature your article. It's not your fault! Just keep publishing good, unique content on your site too. Then search engines should have no reason not to love you.
I really wound't spend too much time worrying about it. As long as incoming links are quality links from relevant sites in the same niche you'll be fine. Problems will only arise if you add lots of spammy links from unrelated sites.
Hi there, If you have 70 links now, I would suggest getting 10 links per week to begin with. But this depends on what kind of website you got. 2. Article writing is so 2005. Believe me I've tested it. Last time I wrote an article was for three months ago. I submitted it to different sites, and after 3 days there were over 300 links back to my site. One week later there were only 20 links left. Why? Because Google removed them due to duplicate content. I'm not saying that you shouldn't be submitting articles. But you need to build up a strategy around it. You write that you got 10 articles. If I was you I would have submitted most of them in the biggest article directories (max 4-5) Then I would have modified them a bit (added more then 30% of the content) and submitted to the rest.
Personally I would look at the top 10 sites in your genre, look solely at sites only based on the one topic, ie not about.com etc Check their backlink numbers, if its not a big topic with a great deal of competition then you dont need shed loads of backlinks, slow & steady wins the race, quality not quantity and all that! 15 decent relative backlinks can let you own a pretty decent keyword/term.
Yes agree with that, but the funny thing I have noticed is that many of those sites listed on top use a lot of reciprocal linkings. To me it seems like they can get away with this due to the age of their website.
I have checked the backlinks of ten most ranked websites in my industry. The number of backlinks to the site is on average - about 3,000. Is this a lot? Checked backlinks in msn, since google does not show all of them.
Is there a certain strategy - how Google identifies content dupliation. I am asking, because the strategy in article submission can be more complex - with the easiest one being to start with 500 word article and gradually addiding more content with every 10 submissions until it reaches the maximum of 2,000 words. Would this end up being better?
I don't think there should be a limit on the number of links you can receive each day. Blogs like Tech Crunch can receive over 100 incoming links in one day just from one blog post and they definitely aren't penalized for that. Just make sure the links don't come from bad neighbourhoods, I guess.
You shouldn't really be that concerned. To start with you'd probably need thousands of links in a short period (say a week?) to get on 'the radar' ..secondly, you would also likely need to statisfy other spam filters as well.... there is simply no reason to worry about it in your situation
Backlinks...spammy or otherwise cannot hurt you folks... the theories here are misnomers.. add all the links you'd like..publish them on as many repositories as you'd like...
Finally, someone who understands! Exactly - otherwise, I can just setup 1000 domains on one of my servers (yes, the PII dual processor I have in my back closet - should be fine) and create MFA type sites, then point all those sites to my competitors. Alas, us humans love our mythology!
Thanks M8.. I thought it was getting a tad out of hand... same with the other concerns about links/week etc... if a site get's wildly popular from some viral campaign..then what? It get's tossed from G? I don't think so.. that's not Search Quality now is it? I am sure when Danny opened his new shop ( SE Land) that he had a few thousand BLs in a week.... so once again, other factors must also be staisfied to come on the radar (cloaking, duplicate content in aggregate,KW stuffing etc..)