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Hi
If you plan to add new links to a site which currently has very few inbound links what is the maximum amount you could add in any one day before it is deemed by Google to be suspicious and unatural. I am referring ot manually added links, not robotic.
Thank you
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Sure, if the site already has 100's of links, can you now start adding 40+ a month.The idea is to not have 100 link in June and 3 links in July through September, then 100 links again in October. (unless there is a large PR release, or another reason for large volumes of inbound links to occur)
I would first say to start looking at pages that do not have these number of links and build them up.
Home Page: 1,000's of links
Product Category Page: 100's of links
Product Page: 1-5 links
Build links to this deep page first if you can. (make sure you have a 301 plan in place for dropped pages)
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Hi Richard
Thank you for coming back - no I didn't reword my original message, I just clarified it in a second message - my original query wasn't crystal clear.
You confirmed my concerns - however, I did go onto to ask - when a site has a a couple of hundred links or more can that increase that number as the 20 new links would become a far smaller percentage of the total sum than when you start out. (I hope that makes sense to you)
Thanks again
PH
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Did I totally miss the question, or did you reword it?
Inbound links should grow over time and in general 20 or so per month is good.
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I'm afraid I can't give you any specific number to aim for. Perhaps there is somebody else with experience on what a truly natural amount of new links is for your type of website (which we don't know yet by the way)?
What you could try to look at: Would (any) of these links have occured if it wasn't for your manual effort? Without your effort, at what rate would this particular domain have acquired links?
For example: if this is a site about one specific type of highly niche screwdrivers, it would be far less likely to attract a significant number of backlinks per day than a tech blog that regularly has big scoops.
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Hi Theo
Thank you for replying -and sorry I wasn't clear
I was referring to inbound links - are we talking about 10 or less, or 50 or less (for example) - or is it a matter of percentages so at first it might only be 10 or 20 a days but once you have a few hundred links it being no more than 20% for example
What do you suggest?
Thank you again
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Are you referring to incoming links or to outbound links on a page PH292?
Assuming it to be incoming links, there is no magic number. As you said yourself: natural is best, and considering you're worried about too much links too fast I doubt this process will be 'natural'. You could try monitoring the results for your domain on majesticseo.com and see if the increase in links shows a natural curve (when compared to other similar websites in your niche).
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No more than 100 links per page. However, with that said, it is more important to consider the visitor rather than Google in this. Too many links gets people lost and confused.
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