How many backlinks should I create per day?

[RoxanneKing]

I was just wondering how many backlinks should I create everday to get a good amount of traffic?

I have been writing one article per day and posting it on my blog, ezineartilces.com, articlesbase.com, helium, ehow, and buzzle. Is this enough?

[steveweber]

That is a good start. In fact, if you do one of those a day, that's more than probably 99% of what other new marketers do.

On the other hand, if you have time, do more! If you do this manually as you are doing, there is no way you can do too many.

Along those lines, be very careful when tempted to go to some type of "automated link building system"...many will do more harm than good.

[DrewG]

For new domains, do anywhere from 5-10/day. After a few months, you can do more (10-20/day).

[kuzmanin]

first of all try to figure out which word/phrases you want to optmizi
then link your site with this anchor text
do not link only with that anchor text.
build deep links
wait google to find links
enjoy google traffic

[Alexa Smith]

It's really difficult to answer this in abstract, Roxanne.

If your keywords and blog-topic are "make money online" or "weight loss", it's not going to get very far, very quickly. But if it's "cauliflower soup recipes" then if you keep it up, you may eventually control the market.

Are you doing anything else to promote the blog and/or the articles?

[RoxanneKing]

Hi Alexa,
So far this is all I have been doing...not too sure what else to do to promote the blog and/or articles...

[dmarze]

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

It's really difficult to answer this in abstract, Roxanne.

If your keywords and blog-topic are "make money online" or "weight loss", it's not going to get very far, very quickly. But if it's "cauliflower soup recipes" then if you keep it up, you may eventually control the market.

Are you doing anything else to promote the blog and/or the articles?

I agree with Alexa. It all depend on market you are in.

[Curt7]

40 links a day is a good number. There are lots of people doing that, and it works for them. If you go over 50, Google may delist your site.

If you choose a number like 40, keep doing a similar amount for a few days. Google seems to translate that as real link building, rather than link spamming.

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by Curt Dillion

If you go over 50, Google may delist your site.

I see many people allege this, in many forums. It's never actually happened to any site of mine that's had more than 50 backlinks appearing per day, and to the best of my knowledge it's never happened to any of my clients, either. I'm always curious: does anyone actually have any evidence that this is really so, and that 50 is for some reason the "sudden danger" number?

[Dennis-White]

anywhere from 20-30 a day shuld be good!

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by Dennis-White

anywhere from 20-30 a day shuld be good!

Again, can I ask what the reason is for this very different answer from the one(s) above? What's wrong with 35 backlinks per day?

[Edge88]

I wrote an article last night (my first article) to try and get hte reader to an affiliate site. Today I built a bit over 150 links to it... Let's see what happens. Is this actually dangerous? couldn't I just do it to my competitors if it got sites de-indexed?

obviously google will not find my 150 links today.. or tomorrow, hopefully sometime next week. and if it was dangerous to build 150 links a day, would google know <i>when</i> the links were built? or would it be dangerous "finding" 150 links in one day. in which case even if you build 150 links in one day you have no idea when they will be found....

[Curt7]

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

I see many people allege this, in many forums. It's never actually happened to any site of mine that's had more than 50 backlinks appearing per day, and to the best of my knowledge it's never happened to any of my clients, either. I'm always curious: does anyone actually have any evidence that this is really so, and that 50 is for some reason the "sudden danger" number?

I have 2 domains which have been delisted. You can discover this by typing site:www.mydomain into a google search. This is what you get when your site is delisted.

Your search - site:www.mysite.com - did not match any documents.

[paulgl]

How many backlinks should I create per day?

Do as many as you can, then 1 more.

In other words, there is no limit.

Remember, your competition is not limiting.

Anyone who gives a you a limit is limiting you and is showing
their limited knowledge.

I have no idea where this not backlinking for months came from.

In 2 months, your competition would be 2 months ahead of you.

Backlink like the people of Chicago vote: early and often.

Your backlinking is only limited by how fast you can do it.


Paul

[Sean Donahoe]

Just to throw 2c into the mix. Imagine a scenario where you have a very popular or controversial blog post, something that went viral then dropped off in popularity a few days later (maybe a revelation about Paris Hilton, which is an example of a short term trend).

That link could be shared in 100s of places or even 1000s within 24 hours and then as interest fades the linking will slow down to a trickle and then ... nada...

You could literally create 100s of links in a day and get massive link juice but the main factor is how widley those links are spread across the net and the authority (or quality) of the sites that link to your post or site.

If you have 100s of crappy links from porn, link farms and casinos then that is going to hurt you. If you have 1000s of links from high PR, authority sites in the same day, Google will love you and have your babies!

It's all relative and not just about links per day...

All the best

Sean

[Edge88]

I did hear there are some human reviewing, but I bet this is only triggered by what Don mentioned above "100s of crappy links from porn, link farms and casino"

[bloogsmaster]

You guys talking about 30-40-50 backlinks per day, how do you do it? It takes so much time and effort for me to get 2 or 3 backlinks.

[jasonmorgan]

If you have 100s of crappy links from porn, link farms and casinos then that is going to hurt you.

care to explain why an adult site or an online casino are crappy links? I've seen many high ranking (traffic and page rank) adult and gambling sites.

Do you have anything to back up this claim or are we playing the morality game?

..for the OP... nobody has a concrete answer to your question. some will say fewer, others will say more.

[Edge88]

Originally Posted by jasonmorgan

care to explain why an adult site or an online casino are crappy links? I've seen many high ranking (traffic and page rank) adult and gambling sites.

Do you have anything to back up this claim or are we playing the morality game?

..for the OP... nobody has a concrete answer to your question. some will say fewer, others will say more.

That's true, if you can get links from legitimate porn or casino sites, then go for it.

I think what Don and I meant would be 100s or 1000s of links from ONE porn site or link farm...

I personally have absolutely nothing to back up this claim though, maybe I should put a disclaimer after my posts, but a lot of the SEO knowledge going around does not have something to back them up. That's the point of the forum, jsut take what you read with a grain of salt and see what other people's opinions are. then try your own and figure it out....

[mfleisch]

I would recommend that you start with only a couple per day for a new web site. Once you're more established, you can try for 5 - 10 per day. As you build your links, go for quality over quantity.

You're much better off, even after your site is established, to focus on getting one or two quality links per day as opposed to dozens of PR0 links!

[Korona Studio]

Originally Posted by bloogsmaster

You guys talking about 30-40-50 backlinks per day, how do you do it? It takes so much time and effort for me to get 2 or 3 backlinks.

I don't know if I should answer this question but somehow I felt obligated to do it..

The ultimate rule of all, ENJOY IT!

When I start my SEO experience few months ago, I hate it. I hate on-page (content making) and off-page (link building). But as time pass by, it really gets the best out of me.

Try motivating yourself, and force that 'drive' to come out. Thats what I do.

Now, I usually post an article to my niche blog once a day at the very least. Make some internal linking.....Done! (and I do enjoy doing it)

Then I'll put some more articles on my support blogs, linking here and there...Done! (again, I enjoy doing it)

Next, I'll search on google "my niche" "powered by wordpress" and do some reading and commenting.Usually, I'll go through from the 1st to 5th page and continue it later.I really enjoy it. I imagined it as a playground for people like me, a geek. It works very well on me.

[jitterbug978]

I aim for about 100 per day... youll see good traffic within a month if you are targeting good keywords.

[bryemidas]

Originally Posted by Edge88

I wrote an article last night (my first article) to try and get hte reader to an affiliate site. Today I built a bit over 150 links to it... Let's see what happens. Is this actually dangerous? couldn't I just do it to my competitors if it got sites de-indexed?

obviously google will not find my 150 links today.. or tomorrow, hopefully sometime next week. and if it was dangerous to build 150 links a day, would google know <i>when</i> the links were built? or would it be dangerous "finding" 150 links in one day. in which case even if you build 150 links in one day you have no idea when they will be found....

150 in a day huh! wana share the how?

[Michael Nguyen]

Too much speculation here. No one really knows what is too much. Remember the Google bomb. Now that will affect your site, but how many links was that in a short space of time? Who knows.

If link velocity is an issue then I might aswell spam link my competitor and move him down while I move up?

Do what your doing now and keep to it. If your site gets to number 1 doing only 5 links per day, then keep at it. When you feel the itch to add 10 links per day then do it on a test site to see what happens.

[dpwm]

Every one is different.

What links you should get, what you can get, what you are able to get.. Are all different things.

Organising your workload, so you do things that promote your site and also things that keep you interested in what you are doing, generally are key important.

Starting out we all want to do everything.. 1000 links in a day, 100 articles.. Growing your business is the same whether you do it off or on line. People seem to forget that. Rome wasn't built in a day.

Sometimes doing a bit of what you like, in relation to your business is as important, if not more than going all out to get 100 links a day, for example.. Because you find yourself getting fed up with trying to do it and ultimately giving up.

Just my opinion,.. but given with experience of having done it myself!

[InternetMarketingIQ]

Create just one per day. And make sure that it's on the front page of Yahoo or MSN and that is all it takes.

[Video Rob]

As many as you can. If you can get more than 10 a day I'd be impressed. Spent more time marketing your site than building it.

[health259]

my site is in ranking now. how many back links need daily to keep site in ranking?

[desi4eva]

I would say if you are manually link building then your fine people forget how big the internet is it doesnt matter if you did a 100 links a day how can google think its spamming when if the article is hot people may naturally link to it!

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by Edge88

I wrote an article last night (my first article) to try and get hte reader to an affiliate site. Today I built a bit over 150 links to it... Let's see what happens. Is this actually dangerous?

No, of course not.

Originally Posted by Edge88

couldn't I just do it to my competitors if it got sites de-indexed?

Of course. That's one of the reasons we can be pretty sure it isn't dangerous.

The thread, like almost all SEO discussions here, is simply full of strong opinions, without evidence, being expressed as if they were factual.

[rukki]

I've heard that you should increase a number of new links per day - from max 5 a day for a new website to 30-40 a day for the older website.

[terriebrown]

I have been making 20-30 links per day for my site. This really helps my website to have a high Page Rank.

[Edge88]

Originally Posted by bryemidas

150 in a day huh! wana share the how?

Sure thing, It took me about 5 days worth of work to do it (not counting the learning curve b/c now i can reproduce it) but the links were all created within about 1.5 hours (I actually created a bit over 650 links, but they were to different sites as well, ~150 that I mentioned above were to my article).

simply put I compiled a list of where to put the links (got many from a friend), then wrote a script that creates the links for me. Writing the script was a pain and took me longer than if I were to create the links myself. I'm still refining it. but basically now it can run through that list again and again and again... but it takes me like 2-3 days of work each time before I can tell my script to go.

Now I'm new to this and this was my first set of link building activities. the article was a goarticle, the keyword shows an ezinearticle as number 1 on google from 2007 w/o any backlinks. my links were from about 70 different sites. Think I should be able to outrank the ezine article???

If it works I'll be super excited and continue to work on this list/script

Edge

[4morereferrals]

With automation and bigger lists of backlink sites so you can bang out 100's in a day.

Originally Posted by bloogsmaster

You guys talking about 30-40-50 backlinks per day, how do you do it? It takes so much time and effort for me to get 2 or 3 backlinks.

[4morereferrals]

Ive done this multiple times ....

I ve placed over 1500 registered backlinks that show in Yahoo site explorer for multiple domains ant the same time in 120 days. They were actually placed on the sites in less than 30 days ... but it takes time for the pages to get indexed and crawled.

The tools and systems are out there for you - but the path is not free - and neither is your valuable time.

There's people doing 150 backlink drops for their sites PER HR ...

Originally Posted by bryemidas

150 in a day huh! wana share the how?

[waqyum]

You are doing a good job.You can also get few backlinks from high pr dofollow blogs and forums.

[clintmyers]

Yeah, these are all guesses at best with no evidence or even strongly believed comments.

[mad]

Make as many as you want just make them on hand and have no problem

[plstar]

I think that you will be fine if you are link building by hand and do it at a steady rate, just don't use any automation or questionable means. I'd also start out a bit slower with a new domain.

[SEO4Life]

I do around 10 links a day. I have tested this and its worked best for me

[Rush]

If you add too many links per day the worse that can happen is your site might be sandboxed, but that's only temporary and isn't likely to happen unless your site is extremely new.

I've added many many links in one day even to my new sites, and nothing bad happened. You have to remember Google also takes time to index each link.

[GossipCrunch]

Why bother? Did ever Big G states that you cannot build backlinks more than a particular no.? But you should not use any software to build backlinks then that would catch Googles bots or spiders attention and it will alert the Big G.

[mikemac1]

Doing 5-6 a day is fine as long as you are spreading them around to different authority sites each day.

[babu259]

its depend upon the PR if you get high pr back links then a few backlinks are cool for SEO otherwish its look like spamming but if you have low pr backlinks then its not effect too much so you should get 100 to 200 backlinks daily

[jazbo]

Sometimes I build literally hundreds in a day gathered profile links, and some automated stuff for blog commenting etc, than I might not build any more for a week.

The thing to remember is that Google does not find all the links the second you build them, the bots will find them over days, weeks and sometimes months.

[Puusaari]

You may find this helpful... What is a Natural Link Growth Profile? | SEO Book.com

As for 50 links a day... I build well over 50 links a day to my sites and they all do just fine... delisted sites get delisted 99% of the time due to on-page SEO factors.

[Tom Goodwin]

Some of these small numbers being thrown around are just cracking me up.

As others have stated, even if you put up a link today, it might get crawled today, tomorrow, next week, next month, never, who knows.

Build your damn backlinks as fast as you can and let god sort them out.

[Rush]

Originally Posted by thmgoodw

Some of these small numbers being thrown around are just cracking me up.

As others have stated, even if you put up a link today, it might get crawled today, tomorrow, next week, next month, never, who knows.

Build your damn backlinks as fast as you can and let god sort them out.

Amen to that!

[papu320]

its depend upon the quality of backlinks if you have high pr back links then i think you need less quantity of backlinks

[fitzwar]

It really depends on your niche, take a look at your competitors and see how many links they are building daily and try to beat their daily build up of backlinks. There is no good answer, as each website will be different for its niche