Massive Backlinks Bad for Local Offline Business?

Google would think something along then lines of, "Hey that business should be ranked 1st".

I've never had a problem ranking a local business given light competition

Why would you want to waste 1000-2000 back-links monthly if you only need 200? Start with a moderate number of back links and keep adding until the site gets to the top of the page (or your desired position).

Then, just keep adding a few links if you think you are beginning to slip.

MarkAse - Thanks for your reply.

giftsolution - Thanks for your reply, I don't see it as wasting links really, I just would like to try one of the services by one of the warriors. Its a backlinking service that gives almost 2,000 backlinks over 6 months for a nominal monthly fee.

Its for my own personal offline business. I am on page one but below yellow pages and servicemagic. If I could do enough to pass these two my competition would be way down on the page considering the Places Map pushes everyone below the fold. I do have the "A" slot on that map, but would love the one spot on the listings below.

Thanks

If you're getting 2,000 back links over a period of 6 months...that's roughly 11 links per day. I don't see Google having a problem with that and it will most likely get you the ranking you are shooting for.

I haven't tried it yet, as I am just getting into the offline business/online presence market, but I would think videos with decent links, tags and content would do wonders for offline businesses. Set up a specific You Tube channel just for your business and throw just 2 or 3 videos up there and optimize them. Videos are pulling major traffic as I'm sure you know
Just a thought

Why sink a site in the SERPS with backlinks. The point is if you are monitoring the competition and your position for a site and keywords you already know what the competition is doing and in those markets it is not that difficult to acquire more backlinks in a short period of time.

Yes, I think massive links is not going to serve the purpose in anyway. Google in fact would only penalize the site. What is indeed needed is the gradual build-up of back links by time. Google appreciates slow build-up.

Yes, I agree with everything here, if you plan on building tons of backlinks, do it over time. But if you do build backlinks over the entire make sure it is quality. Second, if you do plan on really making an online presence for the local business be sure to take advantage of the video marketing...It super easy.

I made 4 unique videos..Created 4 accounts under 1 email. Add keyword rich unique titles, descriptions, and keyword tags and ranked on bing first page for very competitive keyword that gets 1,000+ searches a day and that was just Bing. Also i showed up in the video section of google. If you do this with your local business, you will surely get the same results. Be sure to ping that video site and add your url to the business site.

And like everyone said, do it over time because if your competition has no idea what to do yet...You will be able to control the rankings much easier and will be able to turn on the juice when need be.

I highly recommend Market Sam as well plus they offer free trial so it is totally worth.

And make sure those backlinks count with keyword rich titles from my experience it really helps just make sure you are adding some quality into those sites that you add your backlink and the moderators won't mind unless you spam them.

2000 is fine, just make sure your anchor text and keywords are spot on etc, and you should steam the competition at that level.

I went to a Stompernet seminar last year and Dan Thies said that one of the number one misconceptions about linkbuilding is that doing it too fast too much will get you in trouble or de-indexed. He said that even if you were to add hundreds of links per day to your site, they all get indexed at different times, many of them never get indexed, and there are so many millions of links being created online every day, you have to be doing an absolutely massive link campaign to catch any serious attention from them.

Ever since then, I've been linking as fast as I can to all my sites with no worries, and nothing but great results have come from it. In fact, I just ordered 3250 links the other day, all to one site.

he is talking about up to 2000 links a month for 6 months. to correct someones math that = ~67 links a day not 11

I'm not saying that it really matters