Backlink question

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I am new at internet marketing and backlinking should be self explanatory. I got the free download called SEO Spy glass to see how many backlinks my competitor has. Of course it cuts off at 1,000 on the free version which is okay but how does someone get so many backlinks. Like I said The word backlink sounds self explanatory but I am confused. :confused: Does it mean his URL is in every site that the Spy Glass pulled up?
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  • Yep - that's the gist of it.

    Backlink - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    But to do it "right" (building QUALITY backlinks) takes time, so maybe the site you are looking at has some age behind it.

    HTH,
    ileneg
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    • . By the way the site is about anxiety so everybody in the world seems to anxious. So most of my competition is people like Mayo Clinic, about.anxiety.com, webmd it's all the big boys but I will prevail.
      Your already late if you show up on time ( My Dad's Quote )
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    • true, I also have to tell this
    • What do you think qualifies as a good quality backlink? Any examples?
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  • Why do I hear myself (myself of about 10 years ago) when
    you speak?

    Don't worry - couple of years down the road, all these will be
    all too familiar to you. Just keep learning and you will get there.

    Kingsley
  • Here's the thing with backlinks. Site wide links found on the footer of websites or in the sidebar provide links from every page of that site. For example, if someone had a large site like ProBlogger and they put a site wide link to your website, you would get a link from every indexed page on Problogger. If there were 10k indexed pages, you would get 10k backlinks from one link.

    Sounds great, but Google tries to combat spam and link selling, so site wide links don't carry the same value that they used to, but they're still good.

    Natural linking is mostly a myth unless your site is very popular. My blogs get tons of low quality spam natural links mostly and they have good content.

    You can submit your blog to directories, feed aggegators, and get social media links from Twitter, Facebook etc.

    More links isn't always better. Links from in content from high authority sites will trump thousands of garbage quality links.

    You should connect with people in your niche, get some blogroll links, and start from there.
  • Most probably all of the sites prevail by the spay glass your competitors site is in it, now think some move to make a link on the same link you competitor has.
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    • All right after running SEO spy glass and seeing how many backlinks webmd.com had I almost had a stroke. The key word was anxiety and there is no way I could get 1/10th of what these sites are getting. I pulled up a few and most of them were blogs and sure enough webmd was in there with about 100 more backlinks. So It seems impossible using the keyword I need to ever get on page 1 or page 1021. It looks like I picked the wrong niche.
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    Backlink question

    I am new at internet marketing and backlinking should be self explanatory. I got the free download called SEO Spy glass to see how many backlinks my competitor has. Of course it cuts off at 1,000 on the free version which is okay but how does someone get so many backlinks. Like I said The word backlink sounds self explanatory but I am confused. :confused: Does it mean his URL is in every site that the Spy Glass pulled up?