manual backlinks - how many per hour?

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Just wanting to do a sanity check for the Indian company doing my backlinking.

20 hours:

56 directory listings
12 social bookmarks

- does this look like a reasonable pace for the number of hours involved?

Jim
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  • Profile picture of the author mcatt
    That looks like a ton of links in that time!
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  • Profile picture of the author moSEO
    Doesn't matter, Google won't find all the links at the same time. Besides, ever hear the word "viral"?
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    • Profile picture of the author 0ldfart
      Originally Posted by moSEO View Post

      Doesn't matter, Google won't find all the links at the same time. Besides, ever hear the word "viral"?
      The question is not so much about how quickly Google will pick up the links. I think what I am asking is if the per hour rate of the labour is fair compared to other companies who are doing manual links.

      Sorry, but I dont understand your reference to the word 'viral' as it pertains to backlinks.

      Jim
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      • Profile picture of the author moSEO
        Originally Posted by 0ldfart View Post

        The question is not so much about how quickly Google will pick up the links. I think what I am asking is if the per hour rate of the labour is fair compared to other companies who are doing manual links.

        Sorry, but I dont understand your reference to the word 'viral' as it pertains to backlinks.

        Jim
        Be more specific in OP, otherwise you'll get generic answers.
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      • Profile picture of the author gPlayer
        Originally Posted by 0ldfart View Post

        The question is not so much about how quickly Google will pick up the links. I think what I am asking is if the per hour rate of the labour is fair compared to other companies who are doing manual links.

        Sorry, but I dont understand your reference to the word 'viral' as it pertains to backlinks.

        Jim
        Half work is done in 20hrs.
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Originally Posted by 0ldfart View Post

        The question is not so much about how quickly Google will pick up the links. I think what I am asking is if the per hour rate of the labour is fair compared to other companies who are doing manual links.

        Sorry, but I dont understand your reference to the word 'viral' as it pertains to backlinks.

        Jim
        If you are paying for links, no wonder you don't know the word viral.

        What'd you get? An EMD, hosting, wordpress....then pay for links?

        2+2 sometimes equals zero.

        Paying for links is fine. But paying by the hour for some knucklehead,
        boy, I dunno folks.

        Maybe it's just me, but I notice the mentality changes not even with
        all the fail threads here.

        Paul
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        • Profile picture of the author 0ldfart
          Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

          Maybe it's just me, but I notice the mentality changes not even with
          all the fail threads here.Paul
          First page Google for 10 keywords

          The issue now is getting the other 10 ranked and to #1 for those already on first page.

          No fail here. Thanks for your concern.

          Its a simple question of output rate for manual link building.
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  • Profile picture of the author risingrank
    20 hours of manual work for that is reasonable.
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  • Profile picture of the author Power Marker
    Honestly, I don't think that's reasonable. You are averaging 3.4 submissions per hour. I think it's doable within three to four hours assuming you already have a list.
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    • Profile picture of the author seoposter
      Originally Posted by Power Marker View Post

      Honestly, I don't think that's reasonable. You are averaging 3.4 submissions per hour. I think it's doable within three to four hours assuming you already have a list.
      Even without a list, the output mentioned can still be done in less than the hours specified, except there are measures the submitter needed to follow, like it should all be PR2 and above sites, or the backlinks of each site should be at least 1k.

      To the OP, I can't really tell if it's a reasonable pace. There are many things we can consider, like if they are using different entries in each submission, if all those links are dofollow and other things.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    You never said what they are charging you.
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  • Profile picture of the author 13thSamurai
    It depends on how much links you get over time. If you get a hundered links in a day and no more links after that, google will punish you! It is safer to build a small amount of links every day over a longer period of time. After a while you can increase the amount of linkes.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pyramid Linkers
    I'm not sure what you are paying but I doubt it is worth it. You'll see very little ROI with just Directory Submissions and Social Bookmarks. I don't care how they post them. You need to hire a provider that will incorporate in-content links. Any SEO company worth its salt won't be building directory submissions and social bookmarks exclusively.
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  • Profile picture of the author lovboa
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    Didn't you ask for thorough details on their strategy for your site before you hired them?

    How can you order from them if you don't know what their game plan is?

    There are SEO services that will build thousands of links to your site a month and others that will build less than a hundred.

    There are SEO services that will use software and others that will build them manually site specific for your keyword.

    You should already have an idea what to expect when you hire them.
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    • Profile picture of the author 0ldfart
      Originally Posted by lovboa View Post

      Didn't you ask for thorough details on their strategy for your site before you hired them?

      How can you order from them if you don't know what their game plan is?

      There are SEO services that will build thousands of links to your site a month and others that will build less than a hundred.

      There are SEO services that will use software and others that will build them manually site specific for your keyword.

      You should already have an idea what to expect when you hire them.
      Of course I was aware of the strategy. However link building rate was not discussed and I have used other manual link builders in the past that have done more like 20 links per hour. Hence the question to the community.

      Its not a question of strategy, its a question of output. Thats all I am asking.
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    • Profile picture of the author 0ldfart
      Originally Posted by kabir5800 View Post

      So far i can ,20 directory submission,5 social bookmarking,5 blog commenting etc

      ?? eh


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  • Profile picture of the author anirban4u
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    I feel this work can be completed within hours maximum.
    It will be done with checking all the parameters and factors.
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  • Profile picture of the author citadelburla
    Hi Jim, How much you are paying them for this 20 hours?
    This is important don't go for the speed they are doing.

    20 hours:

    56 directory listings
    12 social bookmarks

    But as per my experiences in 8 hours time we can easily do 100 bookmarking along with 100 directory submission in high pr websites.

    I am not guessing am doing this speed of work for all my link building works
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