What's your take on backlinking?

Its down to you, but i wouldnt build to many to fast.

I usually build 5-10 links per week to my websites, slow and steady wins the race.

Your backlinking should look natural, if you build hundreds in the first week and then nothing for months and then another 100 you run the risk of penalties

Slow and steady wins the race! Build quality links over time and you will be golden.

I really don't know why people waste their time with backlinking and SEO. You're only asking for a hiding off google when they decide they don't like you anymore. Why not just build a site that people will want to come to, and then bring them there using other methods. Good Luck anyway.

Yes, slow and steady are the best way to build backlinks.

For me, I create 1 backlink every 3 days.
First, I started with Press Release Backlinks and wait for 1 week until I create another backlinks. After it, I create EDU backlinks every 3 days.

Usually people praise seo and back link creation, so I was happy to see that two posters here recommended creating good content instead. I couldn't agree more. In my humble opinion content is wayyyyy more important than back links.

Plus the quality of your back links is important. A billion links from forum profiles isn't going to be worth much.

That being said a nice slow link progression with a wide variety of different link types would be your best bet.

Really though. Link building is a pain in the a$$ and you should outsource it or forget about it altogether.

Like I keep saying over and over there are better ways to get traffic than through the search engines.

Yes ,creating blog is very good way to create back links.But make sure the blog content is unique and relevant .I also created a blog for my websites and get 3-4 links/day. I also gets the back links from press release ,blog commenting and classified ads.

I still don't understand how you guys get traffic with good content if noone can find your site. I mean you have no branches people can walk across to get to your site, so I'm a fan of backlinks myself. It seems like the only way to open up those virtual doors so to speak.

I'm still mostly a newb though, so I trust what the more experienced folks say too. One day maybe I'll stop.

The reason I'm not right now is because I see my competitors using certain "backlink tricks", that are getting their sites ranked pretty fast. Well not their sites, something else that can get even more traffic, google places.

They blast the listings to oblivion, then the listings always seem to rank on page 1.
Its something I'm trying right now, so I'll let people know how it goes. I've never seen anyone get penalized for it, and never see marketers talk about the specific technique here.

All I know is it seems to be allowing many of my competitors to steal my traffic, so I have no choice but to compete against them. One of their listings has 200 million spammy backlinks, another listing has around 200 thousand, both rank page 1. The links suck, they seem to have no power, but obviously they hold some type of weight in volume as they're both ranking page 1.

-Red

I'm not really sure why people worry about "too many" manually built links. Using software, I'd be concerned. But not links built manually. Here is what I tell people:

Thats another major flaw I find with using "great content" so other people link to you. There are simply niches where that never happens.

Why? Because one, the only ones who own sites in the niche are ALL competitors, trying to make money and compete against each other. Who the heck is going to want to link to my site just because I have great content? Noone, in the 3 years my sites been on google, not a single person has linked to it because neither my "fans" or competitors have any benefit in doing so. I realize there are backlinking strategies to provide benefits for both sides, I have tried them over the years, noone ever wants to help their competitor. ESPECIALLY if they know their competitor is not as large as they are. I'm not trying to link to small, crappy websites, only ones better than my site, and those are always the ones who never answer back for link exchanges.

My "fans" are never really fans, but people looking for emergency help on their home. These people get the work done, then forget the company even exists. We obviously have good enough content to sell thousand dollar jobs to them, but noone EVER backlinks to our site on their own.

Expecting my competitors to do it would be that much more unlikely.
Therefore, I simply can't wait for people to backlink to my site, I'd be waiting for the next 20 years regardless of my content. Some niches are all about money, service, people choose the most credible looking sites, buy your service, never come back and never talk about it unless you ask them for a review on google.

Very few if any of them have websites. I'm just saying this so people realize there are certain businesses that can not rely on great content to get backlinks. My number 1 competitor in this niche has EXCELLENT content, all the sites linking to him he still had to pay a good penny for. I DID wind up finding a lot of sites who *appeared* to be linking to him out of generosity, then I later found out he owns all those sites as well.

So if he's making incredible content, and people aren't linking to him, that tells me its a hopeless feat in this niche to even try. I'll simply make good enough content to sell my service, and work on building backlinks like all my other competitors do. =]

It actually depends on individual perceptions. There is nothing harm which you are going to make by building very few links in a week. But had I been in your place I would check if this blog can really get good traffic. Otherwise I will straight away start on with new blog

I do have evidence, give me one second and I'll edit this post.

Competitor #1 - if you check his google place backlinks (I'm only saying the spammy links work for google places, I don't have evidence to believe it works on regular sites) with ahrefs.com, you can see its nothing but spam.

https://plus.google.com/102163747593...24399055/about

Competitor #2 - same thing

https://plus.google.com/106993507872...79679925/about

When I saw how much traffic their google places gets (my brother formally worked for one of these companies and said they got leads every single day, and still do) I decided its time to buy scrapebox and go to town on my own google places.

Their websites are optimized, but have little to no backlinks, this is for local business's obviously, but its my niche so its how I feel I need to focus. Anytime I type in "basement waterproofing", their listing rank on page 1 every single time. All due to spammy backlinks imo.

-Red (this is just a newbie perspective so if I'm wrong I'm wrong, but it seems like its the only major thing they're doing)

simply do it naturally. don't make 1000 links a day. do it in a way that Google think that they are manually done.

Too many quick backlinks in short time period is not recommended to get higher ranks (SERP) on Google. It may be seen as "Spammy" in the eye of Google.

It is always better to go ahead with consistent backlinks. Say, 20-30 per day.

Important thing : Don't forget to announce Google that you have got a new backlink - To do so, ping your backlinks or Get backlinks to your backlinks (specially social bookmarks).

Slow and steady wins the race ... 10-20 standard backlinks per week is enough.

It's a boring and tedious process. Don't ever buy them in bulk and just take a few minutes each day to build a couple of them.

The age of your blog is good for doing SEO. You can build hundred links per day. But don't build them in one way. Use different ways like social media marketing,directory listing,forum posting,blog commenting etc. And build them manually.

I'm very confused myself with backlinking i thought what i was doin was backlinking but when i went to DIY.com they showed me that i had ZERO backlinks what the heck am i missing

Built high pr and do follow quality back links not quantity ,,,, and also built the mixture of the

links just like the do follow and no follow ,,,,, so you look natural in Google eye,,,,,,