...Hi - I was just wondering if someone give confirmation on the following? Lets say you analyse your competitors 5 yr old website and you see that he has 50 websites linking back to him lets say for th term 'apples'. Now lets say I am new to the business in the same market and over a 6 month period I achieve or actively find 150 one way links back to my site for the same keyword apples, will that mean I will also rank higher than him? Thanks for your help.
Quality of links is more important than quantity, if I had 20 million backlinks from forum postss I wouldn't get half the traffic or attention I would if my link showed up in the middle of the google.com homepage. Also new domains may be "sandboxed".