What is considering good/bad natural growth of links per 1000 visitors? Visitors come to the website and if the content is good, some of them might create a link to the website (usually at forum or at blog). If your website/content is good, when do you gets 10000 visitors, what do you think what is an average number of backlinks earned? How many additional visitors (not from search engines) those backlinks gets (in average)?
To have a reply to your question this would all depend on what the content of the website was related to so that you new your age group etc etc the site was aimed at. EG. myspace content site would be aimed at myspace users then they talk and might talk about it on other style sites. so you really cant put figures on things like that, well not in my eyes
Further the backlinks depends on from where you are getting those 10000 visitors, are they targeted visitors? and from where they are originated and how many of them you are able to retain.
Lets say that 40% of visitors are targeted. But only 1-2% keep going after first visit. The site isn't aimed for any specific age group. I don't want to publish an URL due to possible competition
Well, it depends on the page and your visitor...and how you write the copy/content...it's nothign someone can tell you, we'd all be guessing..the best way to find out is to test for yourself. It's like saying hey, I have a website, what's my conversion gonna be? no body knows
I think a lot of technology web tutorials can get more back links easier than some other kind of sites.
The Visitors coming back for one more reason what else you offer, do you have worked out on this? You can use digg/delicio.us/slashdot and other social networking sites to retain them longer.
If my site gets 5 new backlinks from 10000 new visitors, I would like to know do you think its is : a) poor b) average c) good d) very good e) excellent ?
I would have to say, IMO its pretty poor. But that all depends on the type of content you are hosting.