How many links and mentioned shall I collect for a new website per month?
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My wife made a new web site and now we are trying to promote it. But I wonder if there is any risk by having too many links and mentions in the beginning (for a brand new site).
How many links and mentions should I collect per month at the moment? Or shall I concentrate on something else?
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Thanks everybody. Great help!!! I have a web site with jokes I like to promote and I guess I will just start with the opensiteexporer. I will go easy on links and focus more on the qualtity and quantity of content. I guess I will build like 2-3 new links a month.
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Hi There,
I see you already got a good reply from Patrick and EGOL. JUst to make it easier for you to understand, link building is more like body building. You can use some pills to get it easily and in short time or you can go for a healthy natural way which is obviously time consuming. You know which is best.
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You got a comprehensive answer from Patrick.
Adding to his comments on "writing content".... new websites are often promoted before the content is full and impressive. Your goal should be to welcome visitors with enough content and high enough quality content that they say WOW!.
Promotion is a lot of work. You want to get full value out of that, otherwise visitors land, see a small amount of content, and even if it is great stuff, their motivation to share or return is diminished.
If they are not saying WOW! then keep on the content task until you will get your full mileage.
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Hi there
There really is no set number of links you should acquire or how many mentions you should have.
A good rule of thumb is to not try and spam or build links unnaturally. So, if you have listings or citations for your business, that's a good link because it's natural.
If your website suddenly shoots up in backlinks from irrelevant or off topic sites, search engines will take notice and act accordingly. Usually with a manual action.
The best piece of advice I can give - concentrate on writing content that is relevant and informative to your users, don't buy links, make sure your on-site SEO is on point, make sure you are listed on topically relevant industry citations, that your site is structured appropriately, and build relationships through hard work and providing real value.
Backlinks will find you if you engage your audience and you are providing a great experience on your website.
Hope this all helps! Good luck!
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