Backlinks *gulp*

FilthyCro · #1 14-12-11, 04:39 PM

I have a phobia of seo that is largely due to backlink building. The times ive been on the sitepoint marketplace and seen .com sites for sales in the 5k range they typically state that they have 1k-10k backlinks. Now maybe its me but wouldnt that kind thing take a millenia to achieve.

Generally on these sites people go and do things like find a dofollow blog in your niche and comment on one of their posts and linkback to your site. Imagine doing that 1000 times.

Is this the kinda thing an seo consultant would do? If so I wouldnt want that job. lol.

How many links do you typically build to get some "status" i.e. pagerank.

domainlover · #2 14-12-11, 04:44 PM

good question, i have been looking into this lately and are shocked at how much seo companies are charging!

Ash · #3 14-12-11, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by FilthyCro

How many links do you typically build to get some "status" i.e. pagerank.

Good question. I don't have that much experience but from what I've read it's more or less the authority of the pages providing inbound links rather than just quantity... quality vs. quantity.

Having said that, the limited number of developed sites I have are all PR 0 so my link-building skills can obviously do with a tune-up.

neddy · #4 14-12-11, 05:08 PM

I'm interested in this too. Perhaps James or someone knowledgeable can help?

spacey · #5 14-12-11, 05:17 PM

sometimes i do a google blog search for the subject and yes a comment or two has to be done

But it does seem a long slow process, the comment quality over quanity seems relevant here

DavidL · #6 14-12-11, 05:17 PM

Where do you start? 101 ways to get backlinks in all shades of colour from whiter than white to jet black

Chris.C · #7 14-12-11, 06:57 PM

Also I think as a general rule of thumb you don't need to get too paranoid about every link being high quality because if it were really easy to get site's kicked out of the index because of low quality backlinks everyone would just be pointing crappy links at their competitors.

So most of the time if you are not engaging in complete black hat spam the worst you are going to do is just be wasting your time and money as Google will just devalue the inbound link.

So at the end of the day "more is generally better" but "better quality is more important the quantity".

OK so that's the general gist, now you just need to know who is your site competing with, are you hitting a niche geographical market or a broad international market.

If you are hitting the niche geographical market with low competition I have often found that building < 30 low quality links (directories and blog comments) will get you indexed pretty quickly and ranking well, mainly because your competition doesn't even know what link building is...

If you are going after some bigger markets, unfortunately volume does start to matter and you are going to need to engage in everything from blog commenting, directories, forum profiles, forum posts, article marketing, guest blogging, press releases, social media, etc - you name it you'll want to build links with it.

Best thing to do is not abuse any one methods or attempt to attain links from bad neighbourhoods or using automated spamming methods.

Then I'd just focus on getting backlinks from a variety of different sites and IPs, a variety of different types of links, that point to a number of different pages on the site, that use a variety of different anchor texts.

Variety and constant growth are what you are after.

domainlover · #8 15-12-11, 08:53 AM

Great post Chris, thanks for the info.

Ash · #9 15-12-11, 09:04 AM

+1 Thanks Chris. Some great info there

zhenjie · #10 15-12-11, 10:33 AM

Spend your valuable time on building your content and good site. Spend your money on hiring others to build links for you because your time is worth more.

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