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how many links until you cracked the top 10?

by billionareHuman
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I realize this is a very general question and there are numerous factors involved including strength of your site and competition, niche, the way you link build.

However from experience I'll share with you what I've noticed in general

It seems to take me about 30 profile backlinks to get ranked in the top in the 10 for non competitive niches, of course of those 30 not all are indexed yet, about 15 are indexed.

For competitive phrases it seems to take about 70 links that is made up of 3 different varied phrases. I don't build 70 links to the same page with the same exact keyword as that is a surefire way to get dropped out of google, it's the most obvious thing to do and will get you dropped, it's happened to me before.

Would be interesting to hear other people's observations?
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  • Profile picture of the author AFD
    It's not about the number of links.. it's about the quality of links and the strength of your competitors..
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  • Profile picture of the author refernshare
    I don't think there's a specific number. Depends on your niche/site competion and what keyword/s you are trying to rank for.
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  • Profile picture of the author billionareHuman
    um everyone just said what I said already in my opening line, sorry to say but what a bunch of useless replies! Are you all here just to build links to your signatures?
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  • Profile picture of the author mithil
    Why don't you wait until all the postings get indexed by the Big Daddy.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    For competitive phrases it seems to take about 70 links that is made up of 3 different varied phrases.
    I think your and my definition of competitive phrase aren't the same. Try needing 1k or 10k backlinks... then we can talk competitive phrases.

    Are you all here just to build links to your signatures?
    Yeah, I think that sums up most of it.

    In my ballpark it typically takes a couple hundred to get on the map for the easier keywords and some still haven't cracked the top 10 with a thousands of backlinks. If I have a juicy looking long-tail I'll throw a couple of backlinks at it to bump it up to the top of the page.

    Honestly, what your asking... I don't think anybody can give you a clear answer.

    Yeah, It's going to take a couple more backlinks to get on the first page of google for dating then it is for knitted kitty sweaters
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  • Profile picture of the author billionareHuman
    Honestly, what your asking... I don't think anybody can give you a clear answer.
    that's why I'm asking for general observations, nobody can give a clear answer to this, all information can help!
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  • Profile picture of the author James Ross
    Hey Billionare,

    In general, I can do it with 120 profile links/blogs unless it's really tough keyword. It also helps if the site is well established.
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  • Profile picture of the author duatiga
    it all depends on quality of backlinks and competitor.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdango
    It all depends on the competition. I've cracked top 10 with a lower competition key phrase with only a few article links, other site's have take dozens of links from dozens of different sources.

    My quick method for link building

    article submissions (all original, writen myself or outsourced)
    wait and watch.....
    Original content Blogger blog with 5 or so posts embeded content links.....
    wait and watch.....
    Wordpress.org blog with 5 or so posts with embeded content links.....

    There are some other sites I occassionally use, but generally for a low to mid competition key phrase, I can crack top 10 with a few times through the above method.....
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  • Profile picture of the author MarkAse
    For one more basic keyword related to my site we're talking about 100. For more complex keywords we're sitting at #12 and have 7,500.

    YMMV!
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    • Profile picture of the author JadeDragon
      I'm very new to this but my blog in the top 10 for a good key phrase with around 4000 backlinks (mostly forum sig links).
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  • Profile picture of the author blackcat123
    I think assumption cannot apply everywhere. It's not possible to say about the exact number of backlinks needed to get up the rankings. It depends mainly on how strong the competitors are.

    It heavily depends on the on-page optimization as well. sometimes for a less competitive keyword, you may be able to come up to the first page without any backlinks just by doing proper on-page optimization given that your domain is exactly the keyword you are targeting.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sharpscrew
    Guys if this discussion is going to have any sens you have to post at least two stats:
    Number of searches lets say according to Google keywords tool and number of competing websites.
    I will start I have a keyword I am trying to rank for it is a long tail keyword, 6mil competing websites, traffic 1.8 mil according to Google keywords ( this is really bad estimate) I have about 300 rank 5-8 back links and a more than a thousand lower tier backlinks like blogs, directories social bookmarks. And I am not even in top 50 in google.
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