I'm currently posting to targeted websites to get some backlinks on my new site. I'm afraid of my links being labeled spam if I do too many. I'm only hitting blogs in my niche and I've posted my link around 10 times today. Its a movie themed niche. I do post on topic stuff that does contribute to the conversation. I've also posted a yahoo answers question. So, what is too much? How many is a safe number? Also, can anyone tell me if non clickable links on pages register as true backlinks?
There is no such fixed no. You have to determine to a number range. Its also important how much the sites are crawled by SEs. Another thing is make some samples of your postings so that you can post them in rotation, not the same content repeatedly which will soon be spammed.
10 times per day should be completely fine. That is in no way excessive, especially when you are talking about relevant links (related information on the page where your link appear, in relation to the content of your site). If you want to increase your backlinks quantity at some point, you should be able to do quite a few more than you do now without seeing a penalty. Don't go crazy with links though if your target is not worthy. Backlinking should always start with making sure your destination has good information. Spending countless hours backlinking is wasted if Google decides that your site's content is poor. To make things look really natural: - Go back to the same sites every once in a while and get another link from another one of their pages. - Always focus on quality over quantity. Quantity can win short term but over time a smaller number of relevant links is more valuable than a large number of irrelevant links. - Don't post links back to the newest information on your site every time, mix in a few links to older content each day too. - Get a good mix of low and high PR links and balance out your NoFollow and DoFollow links. - You've taken the time to find niche sites to make relevant links from, so make sure you post relevant information along with the link when possible. - Remember to link to individual pages within your site, don't put all your links pointing to your root. A backlink has to have the actual link part of it. If it is just your site name/URL without a link, it registers as text like any other text on the page. Don't ignore an opportunity to do that though without first considering the targeted traffic potential of people copying your site name into Google or URL into their address bar. Think it over and decide if you will get a proper traffic value from the time taken to post.
it is on the size of your site, if you have a big site you may be post more than 10 posts but in a natural way,
as long as you write quality articles you can write as many as you can. But yes, I think that between 10 and 15 is a good gap
It is all about quality and varying the keywords that you link to. I would agree with around 10-15 but if you do more on a few occasions it probably won't hurt.
From the sounds of it I don't think you need to worry about limits. Just post whenever something shows up in your niche. It seems like you're doing it by hand so you don't have to worry. If you use software it's tempting to just turn it lose and post 5,000 times per day. You can see that what you're doing won't get anywhere close to that. So just go for it and don't worry about doing too much. Won't matter.
10-20 is what i shoot for. Not really sure what everybody else is like but it's right for me. I also like to use proxies just to cover my tracks.