Question for SEO experts.........

What you are talking about is sometimes called link velocity. It is all about consistency. If you build 10 links today build 10 tomorrow and 10 the next day. then build 15 a day in a couple of weeks and so on.

Rememebr that it is not just quantity you are after but quality

How often is very important (start slow on sites with no backlinks and ramp up slowly over the span of a couple months).

But its just as important WHERE its backlinking from to. Google's Panda update has gotten very picky about the referrer of the links and link quality. Too many "useless" links in Google's eyes, especially if linked fast and unnatural looking, will move your site down rather than up.

Backlinks ain't nearly as easy as it used to be

Start by doing a proper internal link structure. You can thank me later.

I would agree with nicktyler - it's not about the absolute rate, it's about consistency.
Concentrate on building direct qiality links to your site first (especially if it's new) and build links to your backlinks. Poor links can't hurt, but won't be of much help either.

I agree with what nicktyler said. Its all about maintaining the linking velocity. You should not look to build XXXX links in a day and then rest for the whole month. Start slow and then gradually ramp up your link building speed.

Consistency and trends in link building are both very important indeed because if you add some links to your website and then forget about gathering some new votes for a long time, perhaps your site will never reach top spots on Google and other search sites. Simply take a look at status of top ranking websites and you will find them constantly promoted through links pointing at their pages and fresh contents added to them by admins and the owners of projects professionally.

It is the matter of time sometimes and you need to be patient because SEO, especially in competitive niches requires being patient and remaining so. Many times even with strong links, and working for weeks and even months, the ranks achieved may not seem very satisfactory but gradually you will feel improvements happening that can be a sign of making progress. It is great to increase the number of quality links because quantity of authority links will have roles to play.

yes if you site is new and you're building content fast at the beginning, then add back links slowly over time to look natural. Avoid using software tools that do this for you and add too many links too fast....as this is a bid reg flag to google. It's really common sense when you think about it...I mean back links are meant to show google that others like your site's content and are linking back to it for others to see. So if you add those yourself and add them in a slow fashion, you should be ok. And also for better link juice, add links on higher PR sites....like 3+.

Here's a little secret... Link velocity, link consistency, whatever you want to call it... It is complete and utter BS.

The reason people think there is truth behind this myth is that when they talk about building links consistently, they are usually talking about building in pretty small numbers. Like 10/day.

You can build 10/day or 70 in one day once a week. It won't make a difference.

The myth has been largely pushed out there by backlink providers (and especially those who offer low quality links like forum profiles) who are doing drip feeds of links or XX number of blog comments per day.

Backlinks cannot hurt your website. If this were the case then anyone could use XRumer or another backlinking software to remove their competitors' sites from the first page of Google.