TommyCarey
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When someone is getting into doing SEO for their website they always ask "How many backlinks do I need?" and the answer is pretty simple. There is not specific amount of links you can build for your website in order to increase your rankings above your competitors. If there was a specific amount of backlinks you needed to build to overcome your competitors, don't you think they would be doing the same thing and every website would be ranked #1 in the search engine results pages? In this discussion I'll go over why you need to build backlinks, how many you might need and how frequently you need to build them.
Yeah, it all depends on your competition. If the competition keywords are low then only a few backlinks could suffice.
You literally can't set a number, it's impossible to. There are too many variables that you have to take into consideration. Also to add, Google's newer algorithms seem to care more about the quality of the backlinks rather than the quantity. It's a bit confusing at first but once you understand it, it's simple.
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The number of backlinks depends on the competition in SEO. For instance, a search term like "web hosting" might need a tremendous amount of backlinks while a lighter one might need only a few hundred. Anyway, you can gauge how many are needed by examining the number of searches for certain terms as well as the business type associated with those terms.
However, though, if something has fewer people searching for it, it doesn't necessarily mean the competition is less. For instance, it's known that certain lightly used keyphrases with many words are actually more likely to get a buyer. In that case, those terms would probably be incredibly difficult to beat as I'm sure most marketers would be aware of the situation. Anyway, I could be wrong.
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I don't think there is any fixed set of number. You can find good amount of backlinks as low as 10 doing lot of work compared to 100. So it all comes down to how much links are good for you. I have found that more links the better.But it's not possible for many of us to have that much links per day.
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Great post and glad I come across it , I daily try and gather a few backlinks at a time I did use to buy backlinks I stopped doing this as worried to much on hurting my site .
But my question is as many people on SC can say I will get you 10,000 backlinks is this possible we know it is but can this get you there quicker are the links real and where do they get these simple 10,000 backlinks anyway.
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When I started my first blog using the WordPress platform I was impressed with ther CMS (Content Management System). I think it's the reason most people believe that WordPress is the best publishing platform. The CMS is a great help in creating quality back links. What's your opinion?
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I think how many backlinks then it depends how quality those backlinks are.
Building backlinks nowadays are very important but we should consider to build on high quality sites because if building on low quality site, it will not help rankings for our sites but hurt SEO for whole site.
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This post answers some of my questions.
We need backlinks to improve our search engine ranking. We need a better position on search engines in order to attract traffic and drive sales. However, how much backlinks do we need and how frequently we need to do backlinks were the questions I was trying to know. Thanks for these tips.
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Great post about backlinks. My understanding about backlinks is to spread as many as you can on popular websites particularly forums and blogs. But the problem is the way you post your backlinks because being considered spamming will ruin your cause and you may even be blacklisted. There should be a decent reason for you to post your backlink on such popular websites.
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idealmike
Yeah there is no set number of backlinks that you will need to rank high with today. The answer to the question: "How many backlinks will my website need to rank high"? Is: "As many as it takes!". That could be 5. It could be 500, it could be 5000. And no two backlinks are created equal. Even if you have a link from the same site in the same place. One of them will be older so that one will be more valuable from that perspective. Plus it's not just your backlinks that count.
But the backlinks your backlinks have too. How many of them there are, how old they are etc. And for really high competition keywords, some of those sites have literally thousands of very old backlinks that go back years, some even decades (for the sites that still exist) and those are hard backlinks to get let alone compete with!
That said, it's not impossible to get a rough idea for how many you might need to say, outrank your competitors or something. But this does come down to doing keyword and competitor research. Looking at how many backlinks they have and from where. Going about getting the same ones and more.
But again, that might not even be something you need to do. As you know, just one high quality link from an authority site can be worth 100 or even 1000 links from low authority sites. So if you can get those high quality links, you might not even need as many as your competitors do to outrank them. It's funny kind of ruse the way it all works it really is. It's logical though!
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