How Many Backlinks Per Month?

I can't build them fast enough either but don't want to blow it by over doing it. I have free codes to find high PR and .edu and .gov sites etc so its just being cautious to not over do it.

If done properly a few hundred links per day shouldn't matter. Remember only if done properly following the guidelines.

Really Dr Faizan? A few hundred per day? I was reading that if you do 5 per week as an example you should stay at that same pace.

5 a week seems like not that many to me. Maybe like 5 a day, as long as they're good links.

I have done as many as 100-150 per day manually in a crunch for a brief few weeks. The eyes and neck were a little strained at the end of day. Now I do roughly 20 a day, which ends up being 400-600 per month.

Guys I believe everyone is replying on there own experience or assumption but for me I never experienced any problem. Infact one of my friend has ranked for a brand new site for a one word keyword having more than 3 million searches per month in less than 90 days and trust me that was all whitehat. Thats because he has done properly and his strategies work very well..

A lot of good advice here especially staying consistent. As well I change up my anchor text so its not all the same too.

I build about 10,000+ backlinks per month, and you can see it for yourself with my new website YoungJeezyLoseMyMind.com (ranking 2nd page for "young jeezy", without quotes) and it has 4,500,000+ competition. Also, the site is less than 1 month old.

The whole "how many backlinks" thing is just a myth. You can literally build tens of thousands and get away with it.

For new sites, I'd recommend building no more than 2000 links per day as it seems search engine have some indexing issues and you'd see large swing in your SERP. It should be a function of your existing links, say if you have 100,000 links, building 2,000 links a day isn't that much if it's coming from, say, press release news.

If too much links can destroy a website, then why bother doing SEO? Just use software like xrumer to blast links at your competition and give them hell. Too much link built does gets ignored by Google. From my experience for a PR 7 client that I am writing articles for, he is building around 5k PR 3 links and 50,000+ PR 0 links a month without any issues. But when I build 2k links in a short period for a newly SEO site, that caused the SERP to get knocked back (seems like a spring effect in which SERP gets worse as new links are being counted, which takes up to 6 weeks for us, and then ranking gets restored with some improving).

10/day on the website that has a high PR

I do 450 monthly... 15 a day!

I think it is more about being consistent as some have said. If your site has thousands of backlinks and you normally get a couple hundred per day then that is normal for your site. If you get 10 a day normally, then that is normal for your site. I think where the problems come in is when your site normally gets 10 per day on average and all of a sudden it gets a couple thousand all in one day or week. That looks unnatural to the search engines, it looks automated. If you want to bump up your backlinking I would recommend doing it a little at a time so it looks natural. Start adding a few more each day until you are where you want to be with it.

I think that if you follow the guidelines that Google has laid out then you will be fine regardless of consistency. The natural world is not consistent - its random and so should the amount of backlinks you get be, or appear to be.

From my understanding no such thing as sandboxing but you can certainly be de-indexed right?

Ah the weekly "how many links" question again.

Well in my opinion this is a myth.
Imagine you will do 100 backlinks today. Think of when will google or any other SE see the links? will the SEs index all the 100 backlinks at the same time? I don't think so. maybe some will be discovered toady, some tomorrow and some in a week or two. So why should the SE think this is unnatural?

Reptor

I agree that consistency is important. A huge upsurge in backlinking may start alarm bells. Big respect to Eyad with the 15 a day for a month. A great blueprint for anyone.

The Google tool bar and the Alexa toolbar are well worth having installed so you can see the PR and rankings of any site you visit. Also you can freely install the 'DoFollow/NoFollow' indicator which will alert you as to any sites that won't reward your contributions and backlinks.

You need to build backlinks steadily.5 PR7 or PR8 backlinks are enough to give you high rankings in search engines.

Where to get high PR backlinks from?

Directories
Article Sites
Press Release Sites
Blog Commenting
Forum Commenting

...to name but a few

As someone said above if you get the Google Toolbar you can check out the PageRank of every site you visit.

I forgot to say what I meant to post about. If there were a penalty for getting too many backlinks, surely everybody would be going around getting 'too many' backlinks for their competitiors' sites. I think the worst case scenario with 'too many' backlinks is that they will get ignored.

Whether it is conventional wisdom or myth, I try to ensure my backlink building is consistent and from a variety of different types of site.

Hey Reptor,

As you know blog commenting on relevant backlinks is key. Here are the codes you place into google search:

site:.edu +"powered by WordPress" -"Comments are open" +"your keywords" +"recent comments" - has recent comments widget , great for sitewide links

Replace .edu with .com for even more results.

site:.edu blog -"Comments are closed" +"your keywords"
(optional)+"recent comments"


EDU Sites - I found 7300 for my niche -
site:.edu +"powered by WordPress" -"Comments are open" +"yourkeyword"

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Another way is to use this code in google search:

inurl:displayKickPlace.kickAction

These are great because most major news agencies are using them (Fox, etc). Don’t put more than one or two links in your profile and write a short bio you can paste into each one.

These are pretty strict sites, but give big Google juice so don’t abuse them (I have had accounts deleted for 3 and 4 links so keep it down to 1 or 2) Most of mine have survived for months now so they are good. There are so many you can do this for weeks on end. Remember, if you have another site just create a different account with them (different username and email, etc). I have told nobody of this little goldmine, until now so go to town with it. But keep your patterns consistent and natural (i.e. 5-10 a day). Have fun!

PS. Do not spam these sites with too many links....that will get you flagged...one or two links

After you confirm your account, go in and edit your profile. Your profile will allow you to place links and feeds in it. Put your link and the feed for your blog in the profile and treat it like the rest of the back links (Digg it, reddit it, turn it into an rss feed, etc). I used this as an example because of the template it uses is great. There are literally thousands of high pr sites using this platform.

Then of course there are High PR Directories and article sites as well.

Hope this helps.

Hi vpgemini,

There is no limit to how many links you can or should get per month. The only thing to be concerned with is spamming.

Some folks think that if you are spamming it is better to limit how many backlinks you generate, apparently in an attempt to "fly under the radar". When you think about it, that's a silly notion since the whole point of promoting your website is to get noticed, isn't it?

As long as you are building meritorious links, build as many as you can manage, the more the better!

I'm not sure why ppl have to put some artificial limits on backlink acquisition. The more the merrier.

Depending on how much time I have, and how much other stuff I have going on, for a newish site, it might be anywhere from 500 to 20k.

Tom

The key to effective backlinks is to exercise quality not quantity. These provide your site with much better quality SERPS