How many external links do we need for Good SEO?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by aarisindia, Aug 12, 2011.

  1. #1
    Guys how many external links you have added and how many external links we need to get good SEO? Please explain, I am interested in knowing!

    Thanks a millions in advance...

    Best Regards
     
    aarisindia, Aug 12, 2011 IP
  2. Wulkanen

    Wulkanen Well-Known Member

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    #2
    How much candy can you eat until you're full?

    It depends on what keyword you are targeting and how strong your links are.
    Some sites might need a million backlinks, other might just need 100.
     
    Wulkanen, Aug 12, 2011 IP
  3. girish sharma

    girish sharma Peon

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    absolutely Correct!!
     
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  4. mywebsearch

    mywebsearch Peon

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    No one can tell you exact how many backlinks you need to get ranking.
    its depend on your website and targeted keywords. first you need to learn about that how many competitors have your keywords and make more backlinks compare to your competitors websites. with quality backlinks is also important.
     
    mywebsearch, Aug 12, 2011 IP
  5. Prasseo

    Prasseo Well-Known Member

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  6. ayushi infotech

    ayushi infotech Peon

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    Most of all new members ask like you only.........for me dont consider external links , backlinks, page rank etc.....but only one thing you must continue your SEO off page submissions till 6 months ...then you will get automatically backlinks , page ranks, visitors, alexa ranking etc....SEO is long term so you need to wait ....

    choose high page rank forms list , article sites, social bookmarking, classifieds , directory, blogs and continue your SEO journey ....surely you will get good result....
     
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  7. Dewan sohan

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    Good page rank is not only depend on external link. It's also need to be linked with in good PR sites. Those site PR is good, you get your backlink from their. Hope your PR will develop soon.
     
    Dewan sohan, Aug 12, 2011 IP
  8. jopsons

    jopsons Active Member

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    i think no limit.. more links gives you more benefit..
     
    jopsons, Aug 13, 2011 IP
  9. vladthebest

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    Well there are many factors affecting this decision, and many reasons why and why not you need this. If your plan is to get most of your traffic from Google and you are going to focus on SEO then it really depends on your website. First of all, you need to check out the Google keyword checker https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal to see the number of monthly visitors to the keyword you are targeting. Usually the more traffic that keyword gets, the more competitive it is. Try to focus on long-tail keywords which are more targeted and less competitive. For instance, my website is about video production. Instead of targeting 'video production', I might want to target 'video production services'. You might as well want to use the following code; "Niche keyword" + Forum
    Type it into Google search and replace Niche keyword with one of your niches. For instance, if I want to sell professional videos to my clients, then one of my clients could need it for a wedding reception. So I would type "wedding reception" + Forum
    What I would do then is go to one of these forums and study the community. Then after doing that you will know your target audience a little better and what key-terms they use most of the time. As I said, my website is about video production, but without doing this I'd never know that someone could need a video by typing "where to get a short trailer for my wedding". It turns out to be a new combination of keywords that people use nowadays to find someone who'd make them a video for wedding. But even google keyword checker doesn't show much for this, since it only shows the old info.

    Anyway, so try to choose keywords that are not so competitive. Then you can try using a tool called "Traffic Travis". You can download it here for free www.traffictravis.com the free version gives a lot of tools too.. With that you can analyse your page to make some on-page seo and analyze your competitors. So if you have chosen a keyword, then you can use the top 3 competitors and analyze their links. You will be able to see all the backlinks they've built for their sites. So you know how much work you really need to do..

    Well, I guess this will help you to understand some idea.. Hope you'll find it useful, good luck!
     
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  10. w3bmaster

    w3bmaster Notable Member

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    This is one of those questions that hasn't an exact answer or a very clear answer ...

    Like how i make 1 milion dolaras ?
    How i live forever ?
     
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  11. andrej

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    As much as possible. The more, the better.
     
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  12. xenon121

    xenon121 Active Member

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    you can not measure your site's seo quality by link numbers. it is measured by your links quality. sometimes 50 quality backlinks can assist you more than 5000 low quality links. 
     
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  13. alvinperez

    alvinperez Well-Known Member

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    its depend on you how much you want
     
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  14. beige

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    I guess as many as possible but they should be built relatively slowly, through time. Also, in recent years I think that traffic shifts somewhat from search engines to social networks so more and more efforts needs to be directed there too.
     
    beige, Aug 14, 2011 IP