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[glasses123]

Dear Experts of SEO,

Lend me your ears, if your opinion how many one way links should I do a month?

is this a how longs a piece of string question?

am also doing the directory submissions also etc but should I be doing more actual links each month? 5-10-15


Thanks

Gavin

 

[SEO Positive]

This is hard one to call, but.......

I would start off with about 50 per week for about 3 - 5 months, then review where you are, the adjust according to results....

Do you need more? Do you need less....

Maybe looking at doing a sponsorship link.

mix the 50 between:

- Directories
- Social Bookmarks
- Themed Links
- Articles
- Forum Signatures

Maybe a press release or 2.

A good recipe to link building is vary the types of links that you get.

Get a few of each, not all of one.

Every "seo" has their own views, however the above works, and i have plenty of sites that I have done the above on, and they are on page 1.

Although, on-page optimisation is also an important factor, link building alone will not get you to page 1.

 

[iamlijo]

When you building links dont go for high pr sites only . Give a mix of low PR and High PR sites . Also dont point all links to the home page . Use relevent anchor texts and link to inner pages . you can submit to 50 Directories a day . Also 2-3 articles per week is also good . When you submit to directories , fat submission up to an extend is most probably OK ,because some directories will approve suddenly , some take months and some dont approve . Also some time will take , for google to crawl your backlinks . So dont worry about the pace , Just dont go so fast .

Best of luck

 

[Andycal]

This entirely depends on your competition and your keywords. If your competition has 30,000 links and you want to beat them, then you'd better get ready to put in some long nights.

Personally, I have never seen an issue with simply sitting down with a good pot of coffee and linking the bejeesus out of a site. Just go for it. Building links is only going to do good so really it's down to stamina.

If your competition is in a particularly quiet niche and they have very few links, then just do a few, no sense killing yourself.

Everyone can have an opinion on this question and every-one's will be right and wrong in equal measure because everyone will have success/failure in equal measure too. There's no 'science' to this because Google is tight-lipped about its formula. My own opinion is that Google's algorithms 'aint all that clever.

ETA: SEO Positive is dead right, mix it up, if only to maintain sanity.

 

[ORDERED WEB]

Dear Experts of SEO,

Lend me your ears, if your opinion how many one way links should I do a month?

is this a how longs a piece of string question?

am also doing the directory submissions also etc but should I be doing more actual links each month? 5-10-15


Thanks

Gavin

Forget SEO

I am a bit disturbed you are selling spectacles on site up to a combined power of -16, whilst allowing consumers to measure/guess their PD, and not taking other measurements like Mono PD's, heights, or frontal angles. I would say a RX of R-8.00 -8.00 x 45 would merit mono measurements, test and frame BVD's and both test and frame pantoscopic tilt measurements

Furthermore you have made no attempt to avoid clearly obviously stupid frame lens combos

At what power combination do you not apply the assumed average PD of 63mm? I myself for example have a PD of 74mm, and a RX of
R+3.75-1.50x140 and +4.50-1.00x30 Had you supplied me with OC's set to 63, you would have induced approx 3.5 base IN prism (not accurate calculation, tinny toddler screaming in my ear) which TBH, besides breaking the standards, is going to be pretty uncomfortable, but possibly wearable for a short while. The danger of this is a punter wears the spex, gets in the car at night, and then suddenly gets diplopia (translation: 2 sets of headlights driving at you...) deciding which pair to drive around would not be fun

 

[Andycal]

That's probably the best reply to an forum post I've ever read. If I could understand it I'd probably agree. Heck, I'll agree anyway, it's amazing.

 

[AaronB]

This is hard one to call, but.......

I would start off with about 50 per week for about 3 - 5 months, then review where you are, the adjust according to results....

Do you need more? Do you need less....

Maybe looking at doing a sponsorship link.

mix the 50 between:

- Directories
- Social Bookmarks
- Themed Links
- Articles
- Forum Signatures

Maybe a press release or 2.

A good recipe to link building is vary the types of links that you get.

Get a few of each, not all of one.

Every "seo" has their own views, however the above works, and i have plenty of sites that I have done the above on, and they are on page 1.

Although, on-page optimisation is also an important factor, link building alone will not get you to page 1.

May I just ask a question on this, why do you need 50 per week if its all about quality and not quantity.

Also most, nearly all (well a lot) or forums seem to have no-follow in the code so what is the point of this? this also goes for a lot of the social networking sites?

I am not questioning your wisdom, I am no guru on this. its just what I have personally seen.

Thank you

 

[Andycal]

May I just ask a question on this, why do you need 50 per week if its all about quality and not quantity.

Also most, nearly all (well a lot) or forums seem to have no-follow in the code so what is the point of this? this also goes for a lot of the social networking sites?

The simple answer is 'nobody knows'. I test this stuff all the time and I got a two-word keyword, competitive niche to number one in four weeks (brand new domain) just by using no-follow links.

Apparently no-follow means no PR is leaked, but as PR is generally seen as bobbins anyway, who's to know what the effect is?

My advice? Do stuff until something happens.

 

[SEO Positive]

May I just ask a question on this, why do you need 50 per week if its all about quality and not quantity.

Also most, nearly all (well a lot) or forums seem to have no-follow in the code so what is the point of this? this also goes for a lot of the social networking sites?

I am not questioning your wisdom, I am no guru on this. its just what I have personally seen.

Thank you

Hi AaronB,

Thanks for your questions.

With regards to quality and quantity....

If I offered you one link from a pr7 site or 50 links form pr1 - 4 sites what one would you accept over the other?????

Well personally i would accept the 50, as quantity (IMO) does have some reflection on your serps, also....

I would also choose 100 links from mixed pr sites, than just 100 links from pr 6 sites. As I said in my post before, you need to vary your links, not just in type of links, but also quality of links. It would be a little obvious to the search engines (Google) if one day you all of a sudden had 5 pr6 sites linksing to you (all just themed sites).

By getting forums (there are MANY MANY do follow forums out there) to link to you, and social bookmarks (again, there are MANY MANY of them) linking to you, you are spreading your inbound links through types of links and quality of links....

This stops red flags going up when search engines look through your links.

I hope this is clear.... Also, this is just my opinion from my experience of getting many sites on to the first pages of Google.

Others will have different opinions.

 

[Muhammad Arif]

I agree with this:
This entirely depends on your competition and your keywords. If your competition has 30,000 links and you want to beat them, then you'd better get ready to put in some long nights.

Personally, I have never seen an issue with simply sitting down with a good pot of coffee and linking the bejeesus out of a site. Just go for it. Building links is only going to do good so really it's down to stamina.

If your competition is in a particularly quiet niche and they have very few links, then just do a few, no sense killing yourself.

Everyone can have an opinion on this question and every-one's will be right and wrong in equal measure because everyone will have success/failure in equal measure too. There's no 'science' to this because Google is tight-lipped about its formula. My own opinion is that Google's algorithms 'aint all that clever