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root123
04-27-2007, 03:53 AM
Can someone offer me some ideas on how to accelerate my link building campaign by my own. Presently I managed to aquire a minimum of two links every alternative day for my site.
ishir
04-27-2007, 04:13 AM
As per Google's guidelines, developing upto 40 links a month is treated ideal. You seem to build the aforementioned number of links on a monthly basis. So, why would you want to accelerate? Quality and Consistancy is the most importat factor in link building; quantity does not matter.
Thoughts?
MattUK
04-27-2007, 04:48 AM
As per Google's guidelines, developing upto 40 links a month is treated ideal.
Where do Google give this 'guideline'? To my knowledge Google have never commented on the rate of aquiring links.
IMO it doen't make a difference, it depends on the nature of the site, the quality of the links and the overall historical link profile.
A site that has just announced a cure for cancer is going to pick up links at an amazing rate, I'm pretty damn sure Google won't ban it though.
As long as you make sure your links are topical and from good quality sites I doubt you'll have a problem no matter how many are built.
BuckfastMonk
04-27-2007, 05:42 AM
Yes matt, you are spot on. It really depends on the age of the domain and the amount of "trust" google has in your domain. This will determine how agressive you can be with you link building efforts. what is your current success ratio with your link requests? I aim for 3-1 and if I am not doing this target I look through the campaign and see what I could do better. Often, a simple change in the link request email is all it takes. Send it to your inbox or a friend and see if it grabs the attention from all the spam. Here is a tip . . . google alerts > link:mycompetitors.com
Resources that you will find helpful . . .
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=2616
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2160301
http://searchengineland.com/guides/link_week.php
www.linkingmatters.com
www.ericward.com
www.andyhagans.com/articles.php
http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml and aarons associated ebook
As per Google's guidelines, developing upto 40 links a month is treated ideal. You seem to build the aforementioned number of links on a monthly basis. So, why would you want to accelerate? Quality and Consistancy is the most importat factor in link building; quantity does not matter.
Thoughts?
Can you provide a link to the Google guideline where they say less than 40 new links a month is best?
If by "quantity of links" you mean "number of links", then yes quantity of links is perhaps the most important consideration paid by Google's algorithm called PageRank.
"Academic citation literature has been applied to the web, largely by counting citations or backlinks to a given page... PageRank extends this idea by not counting links from all pages equally, and by normalizing by the number of links on a page... "
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
Trust, history, quality links, site size and other aspect are also important. Some larger sites may gain 1,000s of new links in a day.
ryanmcmaster mentions "Linking Matters" and provides their URL in his post. For years it has been one of the best resources available on this topic.
timzar
05-10-2007, 05:41 AM
Hello, I'm looking for help on link building. If any suggestions, please send them to timzar@yahoo.com, or liu@projectmaker.info
:)
gobeyond
05-10-2007, 10:31 PM
IMO it doen't make a difference, it depends on the nature of the site, the quality of the links and the overall historical link profile.
Yes, the quality of links is much more important than quantity. One quality link can be worth of thousands of low value links.
I don't believe Google has ever given out guidelines regarding link buidling. Google always wants a site to be as informative as possible and as truthful as possible. In the eye of Google, a web site should not have the goal of reaching No. 1 ranking, but to inform and educate visitors.
dedmond29
05-14-2007, 02:52 PM
root, I'd recommend building content (articles, tutorials etc) that can be beneficial to your user base. Start investigating what questions your users have online and then write content associated with answering that.
While doing that, build a DB (or excel file) of places and people related to your website that you can contact once you start generating the material.
I used a strategy like that for someone who basically had maxed out the link research for a commercial, retail website (with little content outside of their product) and got great reception from the link requests. I didn't even ask for links for most of them, just reviews and feedback.