Mad SEO question.

[TomBuck]

Just thinking I know about sandboxing and I know that keeping constant links flowing is important. BUT what if:

I brought a domain tomorrow and from now until 2012 I got 3,000 backlinks, some relevent, some decent PR, couple of .edu social bookmarking ect. What would happen? (I know this is in hindsight)

Thanks.

[GeraldGigerl]

Generally, build backlinks slowly but steadily, this is an ensured
way to improve in ranking. It takes time to get notice by Sir
Google, and at the very first you´ll experience your site dancing
like crazy.

Don´t start building 50+ links the very first week. I made the mistake
and building like 70 links a day, and this even though my website was just a
week old or so. Don´t do this.

[Rich Lowe]

Hi Tom,

It’s not the amount of backlinks which is important. I would focus more on where the links are coming from and how they are linking to you. Try to get your links in a way which looks natural to the engines and be careful who links to you and who you link out to.

This is just one of many factors the engines take into consideration when determining rank. A strong internal linking structure is important as well. The engines take this into consideration when ranking your site.

Rich

[paulgl]

Nobody knows the quality of thew website you will build, or
the quality of those backlinks.

But come on. You can build as many links as you want.

Can we bury this "natural" nonsense?

Paul

[yukon]

Originally Posted by paulgl

Nobody knows the quality of thew website you will build, or
the quality of those backlinks.

But come on. You can build as many links as you want.

Can we bury this "natural" nonsense?

Paul

Like Paul said, it doesn't matter how many backlinks you throw at a site.

I tested this a few months back on a .net site I own, I pointed around a 1,000 backlinks in a couple of days at a new domain. The site bounced back & forth between page #1 & page #3.

I stopped building backlinks, went to Yahoo Explorer picked the highest PR backlink already indexed, then built a 2nd backlink on that same page.

The next day I was on page #1 at position #3, hasn't moved in over 3 months.

Never built anymore backlinks.

My Index page beat wikipedia internal page for same keyword phrase (wikipedia sitting at position #4 in the SERP).

[Andrew Barton]

Hopefully your SERPs would improve. I would venture to guess that in most niches, 3000 backlinks in almost a year wouldn't get you anywhere near sandboxed.

If you can even get"sandboxed" by building tons of backlinks... (a debate for another day.)

[hitecballer]

I am on the side of guys that beleive that the number of backlinks built over time really matters less than most believe outside of highly contested niches. I think if you want results with your SEO you need to focus on

1. Keyword research
2. Domain purchase
3. onsite SEO ( overlooked by many even big companies )
4. Then build consistent and diversified streams of backlinks strategically to your site.
5. update your content regularly

Lastly just give this time and you will do fine there is no need to worry about sandboxing when you do the steps Google wants you to do properly everyone wins.