Link Building Speed
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Hello everyone,
This is my first day at SEOMOZ and I have already searched the forum for an answer to my question with no luck.
How do I work out the pace at which I should be building links? Everyone talks about the importance of makling link building seem natural/organic, but how xactly do you go about this?
Many thanks in advance.
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You are very much welcome.
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Thanks for taking the time to reply. I think our target is performance related.
The problem we are facing is that our top competitors have a considerable number of quality links (around 500), but they don't do much link building.
This presents a problem in that we can go out and get the same number of quality links (isn't confidence a wonderful thing), since our company has good standing in the industry, but we don't want to do it suspiciously.
We currently have 8 links and are on page 2 and 3 for our main keywords. Our website is 13 years old.
How fast should we be building those 500 links?
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Excellent resources indeed. Thank you.
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Some people can build 500+ links a month from seperate class C IPs
Some people build none for months and then land one from Microsoft after engaging in case studies related to indepth business infrastructures. (for example)
To work out the pace - budget, time scale and competition needs to be identified - it really depends on your objectives.
Is it specific KWD performance targets, or holistic performance?
It's quite a huge topic to answer briefly TBH
According to Matt Cutts, Just make a cracking site and then tell people about it everywhere you go
If it cuts the mattstard then those links will come, and then you can socially engineer your content and community to like you even more and attract more
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I think these 3 links will answer your question:
Starting link building:
http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links
Bit more advanced:
http://www.seomoz.org/article/the-professional-guide-to-link-building-2011
Manage your link building efforts:
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