Speed of link development

I am developing my sites and would be interested in peoples thoughts on speed of links appearing for a domain that is 6mths old?

I read about 15 per day is the kinda of guidelines. Dont want to gain them too quickly if it will harm the site. Comments would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

50 per day is okay.

 

here is a great article on Link Velocity, which is basically your question:

http://www.digeratimarketing.co.uk/2007/04/19/dominating-serps-with-better-link-velocity/

Also take into account that just because you spread 15 a day or whatever, doesn't mean Google will pick them up exactly as you spread them. If Google only crawls a page you put a link on once per month, it isn't going to get picked up till it gets crawled again. Versus a page that gets crawled every day. My point is pages get crawled at different intervals (you can roughly track this by the cache feature in google), so you links will get picked up only as they get crawled.

All that aside, realistically an site that is worth having a link from, probably gets crawled at least 1 time per week if not several times per week. Anyway, just my two cents.

MAtt

 

Great comment. +rep for you.

 

Spend 1 hour a day doing link building and the rest of the day building content. You probably won't run afoul of the search engines.

 

Thanks all for comments!!!

His post argues that 100 per day is ok. I quote "Link velocity is a great measure of popularity. It’s important. Very important."

My concern is i have read as said before this should be about 15per day. However, when considering bulk directories, signatures links, site wide links etc many links can be gained very quickly. It is these links that can be gained that i would like to take advantage of though not be penalised because of.

I realise these are of low level PR but nonetheless are gained quickly regardless of crawl rates which point i take on.

Using the hour a day method does not give an idea of number though a good measure and ratio for me for links:content.

That post quoted seems as if it was a relatively new domain as mine is.

I suppose the question and a good example is a 6mth old domain getting 6000 signature links, good or bad effect?

 

I think the quality of the link matters most than the number of links. Also make sure the links are from different C class ip's and point with different anchors and to different pages. If everything look natural than nothing to worry.

 

Yes, its true. Link building really take time before you see the result. Here, we have 4 - 6 months period to link build a website and show GOOD SERP.

 

So is getting large amounts a problem if my domain is only 6 mths old?

 

It's not a problem for quality links.
If you're spamming with some automate tool, that's another story.

 

No am talking about getting signature links, large directory quantity submissions etc. Definitely not spamming.

Just dont want to over do it,if you can

 

You can go on with the forum signature links, you won't get penalized for that.
About the directory submissions, you can submit to 5000 directories in just one day anyway.
Just change the anchor text from time to time, so that it looks more natural and under the radar.

 

anything that can be humanly done is acceptable... automated services might be sketchy when it comes to google if they come too quickly

 

Thanks guys!
So the general trend is that number and speed does not seem to be an issue would not be able to do more than 100 per day anyway, not manually.

I keep away from automated stuff and re-enforces this

 

One day someone will realise it doesn't matter how fast you built links... cus if it did, I'd go build them for my competitors and penalise them.

Where is the logic guys?

 

Interestingly you can influence competitors rankings though (ask Brad Fallon). There are a few people that actually have link spam services where they will get a ton of useless spammy looking backlinks to any site you want.. just hire them and direct it to a competitors site. There are people that do it. It's only damaging though if the site is brand new and like PR 0.

 

Whats the definition of brand new what timescale ? i ask as my domain is 6mths old

 

i believe if you do it manually forget about the number make as much as u can

 

I wouldn't worry, google is quite sophisticated at spotting spamming. If google penalised your site it would have to penalise sites like the new york times that get thousands of backlinks a day