Amount of links for a new site

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by gamble4living, Dec 18, 2012.

  1. #1
    Is there like any formula or a general rule of thumb regarding how much backlinks should a new site receive. Later on it could be adjusted as the site grows and becomes bigger and older.

    Should there be more Web2.0s, Wikis, Article Submissions, Social Bookmarking, PRs. I believe these are the type of backlinks you would want for a quality Tier 1 but I am not sure how much of them should be build and for what period of time. I do not want to overdo it and look spammy.
     
    gamble4living, Dec 18, 2012 IP
  2. junedc

    junedc Active Member

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    yup that's correct. dont overdo backlinking for new domain.
     
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  3. gamble4living

    gamble4living Peon

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    But how much exactly should they be? Any way to calculate their number?
     
    gamble4living, Dec 19, 2012 IP
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    junedc Active Member

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    i can't say the actual number even if you post 10 per day. google bot wont crawl all of them. for me i aged my domain for a month or two, add some content and do on page seo. i'm not even submitting it to google webmaster. i need to also decide first what will be my sitemap.xml format.
     
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  5. affilorama

    affilorama Active Member

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    It's difficult to calculate a number or determine how much you need exactly. Unfortunately, link building is not an exact science. Much of it is trial and error. What you can do is build links slowly, building more and more each day. You can start with 10 from each method for now and then build on that each month. A good guide is to look at how many backlinks your competitor has for the keyword you're both targeting. You need to meet that number or exceed it.

    Hope that helps. Have a good day!
     
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    dissingtonwalker Peon

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    How can you check your competitors backlinks and keywords?
     
    dissingtonwalker, Dec 19, 2012 IP
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    Use Backlink Watch, SEO PowerSuite to check competitors backlinks & keywords.
     
    kmkv_princess, Dec 20, 2012 IP
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    santosh.vouch45 Greenhorn

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    Backlinks is most important part for ranking of keyword. backlinks should be natural. you can create by article submission, blogging, forum posting, classified posting, are the main source of creating backlinks.
     
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  9. SS-Q

    SS-Q Banned

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    I think it might vary depending on the niche you are in. Also if you can build up other trust factors you will probably get more leeway. So make sure you get some high quality links, link out to some trusted sites and regularly post unique content. Technically a site should be able to receive unlimited new links if it proves it is trustworthy. Even things like listing an address and a privacy policy might help. Look into Trust Ranking.
     
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    rollwithsoul15 Greenhorn

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    If you are consistent in adding backlinks everyday then it shouldn't matter the number. You just have to make it look "natural" to google. Getting a bot to do it is probably not the best way to go about getting backlinks in the beginning...or ever.
     
    rollwithsoul15, Jan 6, 2013 IP
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    jbouvier Greenhorn

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    You can even get penalised if the website linking to you is a spammy one.
    Stay with quality backlinks; use dofollow and nofollow to make it natural.

    Check out my multi-author website, promoteyoursites.net for more info on SEO, advertising campaigns, link building, and generating more traffic.
     
    jbouvier, Jan 7, 2013 IP
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    It has been never fixed the numbers of quantity of backlink.Only quality does matter.
     
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    G4Living,

    Consistency and variety is the name of the game.

    Consistency build incoming links and make sure those links have a variety of anchor text, including using your URL as anchor text.

    Hope this helps. Cheers,
    TP
     
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    There is no rule but common sense should prevail in giving a new site hordes of backlinks. To put it simply, it should be done slowly so as to appear as natural back links. Also, Google loves variety, meaning, they should contain assorted links: Web 2.0, Forum, Social Networks, Article Directories,etc. Got the gist? Otherwise the links built will become less worthwhile.
     
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    No there cannot be one. Sometimes only 5 links from good and trusted websites overpower a 100 links from low PR websites. SO this formula cannot possibly be drawn.
     
    traxport121, Jan 13, 2013 IP
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    Never hurry through the process of link building. A new site especially needs time to flower when it comes to reaching potential visitors. Hence a thorough understanding of the various forms of link building is absolutely essential before embarking upon the idea of incorporating them.
     
    prasanth5, Jan 19, 2013 IP
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    Quantity is not important, quality is important..
     
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    You want maybe 50 to 100 HIGH QUALITY backlinks on .EDU sites. After the site has been around for a few months, you can create more. Google doesn't like it when brand new sites get tons of backlinks, and they penalize for it.
     
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    Organically grown backlinks are the best way to build your reputation. People selling "HIGH QUALITY BACKLINKS" and other similar services are all selling snake oil. I would focus on high quality content, encourage user interaction on your website and post relevant and interesting topics in places where visitors interested in your niche hang out. Traffic will be slow at first, but if your content is of a high enough quality it will soon start to be shared organically around the web and the backlinks will come. Persistence and dedication is the key here. Anybody selling something that sounds "too good to be true", usually is.
     
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    The amount of links isn't as important as how often you build links, consistency is important. Now you need social signals coming from your site also but you need to build same amount of links consistently and you will win the race, don't forget you need high PR relevant theme links that super important and also a diversity of links from all kinds of sources.
     
    cla49, Jan 21, 2013 IP