Just wondering, How many backlinks can you build per day without overdoing it and hurting your site with google?
I guess, in theory you can submit to as many as you want, but its the approvals that count. Submitting to a thousand directories in a week and then getting a thousand approvals (and thus backlinks) the following week will definitely look un-natural to Google. But if these thousand were approved at the rate of say 5 a week over the next few years this would look OK as far as Google was concerned. I think the thing is, try and steer clear of automated subs - do these manually. This way you will have less of a risk of getting massive approvals and the resultant backlinks all in one it. I have been submitting to around 20 directories per evening for the last 1.5 months and so far I have had around 60 approvals. So in effect, I have had around 1.5 new backlinks per day. I think for the G this is fine. I hope this helped. I am still on my first cup of coffee at the moment...
I also asked a similar question here a few days ago. The Google webmaster tools makes reference to 'excessive linkbuilding and recips'. I asked how many recips would be considered excessive? Noone was able to answer though.
Hey Dona, I am doing manually submissions around 50 per website, blog comment posting about 10 and forum about 10 to 15 forum posting in various forums. I am doing link exchange with relevant website about 30 a day, So total will become 100 ok, but all of them won't be approved. So do Build link manually it won't hurt. And no exact amount any one can say...
What will Google do if they think your backlinks are unnatural? Do they ban you? Or just penalize you?
One of my articles ended up on the front page of Digg, Fark, Shoutwire, got featured on AVN news and got hundreds of bloggers to blog about it in one day. I loved it! Now take some new highly anticipated startup for example. They day its launched everyone goes crazy about it. They never get penalised. So don't worry about it.
These scenarios are no doubt viewed differently by Google when compared to 1000's of instantaneous PR1 directory links. I guess then that the OP's question can be best answered by saying It depends on just how you are building these backlinks.
It is relative. As mightyb pointed out, a big startup will get tons of links in a short period of time. The other point to be remembered here that its link count will only show an upward curve as links keep only getting added. In short, keep it natural and consistent.
I believe consistency and variety are at least as important as the number of backlinks you get. If you get lots of backlinks over a few weeks and then more or less stop it's likely to trigger a red flag, keeping a steady flow of new backlinks is important, especially in the first 6 months. Varying your backlink sources is important too. It's easy to focus on just one type of backlink building at a time, eg social bookmarking or blog comments, but having a lot of backlinks come from only one type of source at a time is unnatural and can raise a red flag. In my experience the more varied your backlink sources the faster you can build backlinks without raising a red flag at Google.
Early on, I submitted to 300 directory's in one day. None of those links counted on Google, but did on Y!/MSN. That particular site seemed to take ages to rank well. I do recommend taking it easy on the dir submissions until you get some other links built.
Just because Google doesn't list your backlinks it doesn't necessarily mean they aren't counted, Google always shows fewer backlinks than the other 2. Directory submissions have a built in delay, only a few of them will get added immediately the rest will show up gradually over a period of months.