Backlinking a New Site

Since we`re talking about a new website I recommend you to start slow. In the first month do some social networking, social bookmarking and a few article submission. It`s imperative for Google to find and index those first links

I told you this because i have seen a case when somebody builded thousands of backlinks for a new website. The good part is that the website wasn`t sandboxed but here it comes the bad part too : Even if the website wasn`t blacklisted Google indexed only a few backlinks. I think they have seen a "rapid growth" for that site and keeps an eye on him so be careful. Start slow and increase each month and you should be safe.

Write some articles with links pointing to your sites. Hubpages is good for getting decent PR links to your website. I have a few hubs that are PR2 or PR3 linking in to a couple of my sites.

Slowly build backlinks at the start. There's a school of thought that says Google may raise a red flag for new sites that instantly get a lot of backlinks.

My rule of thumb, and you by no means have to follow it but:

I always limit myself to 5-10 blog posts a day. 1 press release a day, 1 video, 1-3 forum posts.

I always bookmark my pages in bulk anyway, and create a feed for all my pages and backlinks.

I continue this path for roughly 7 weeks. Amongst those, I uploading files to document sharing sites and so forth.

Week 2, I add some secondary articles to external properties (ezine articles, wordpress).

I build them on keywords that either my competitors use or keywords I don't want to rank for. This way the topic is still relevant, and I'm not missing out on something I wanted to rank.

Create unique articles for all these (quality though, research does go into this)

Then I build as many links as I want to these secondary properties. Not spam, and I don't automate it either, it's all manual.

Other than that, I never pass up a guest posts offer, and I would build as many as I want in a day/week/month if I had the chance, because they have great benefits.

I follow this process for roughly 7 weeks (for one page on my website, adding others but not linking to them). At the end of the 7 weeks I begin the process but now doing it for 2 pages.

So my links double. I make sure the backlinks for my other page tapers off slowly and I just unload something like 3-way links over the coming months.

Eventually It'll get to the point where I'm now doing 3-4 pages for my site on a daily bases, at which point I wont add more the the mix, and maybe even make sure that it doesn't look too evenly spread =)

Those ofcourse are for physical product reviews, and if instead I was doing it on an info niche, I'd rely much more on syndication, rather than ranking on a search engine.

I would make sure your site is indexed in all the free service directories and social bookmarking sites like delicious.com also in articles on high PR sites like squidoo.com

It is always recommended to start with only a few backlinks for a new site so that Google would not raise a red flag on the site...

For a brand new site I would not do any backlinking to it for at least 2 to 3 weeks,I would just digg the home page and wait for the site to get indexed first before you start a backlinking campaign to the site.


Steve