Optimum level of link building per month for a new domain

[Direct_Ram]

looking to launch a new site, how mnay links can we affectively create per month? is 80 links per month ok?

[Direct_Ram]

thanks appreciate for your help,

thanks

[max.favilli]

Maybe, or maybe not.

It have to be natural.

Is it natural for a new website to gain a lot of backlinks in a bang? No. Check your favourite websites backlink profiles and you will see something like this: http://picpaste.com/Screen_Shot_2015-10-28_at_20.13.15-abR0OGKj.png some kind of growth...

My understanding is you are asking how many backlinks you can generate per month without risking of being spotted by google as a cheater (someone who tries to manipulate serp to his/her/its own benefit).

Well, for each link there's a lot of work to do, and if you relay on buying links (which is taboo to say) you still have a ton of work to do for each link if you want to do it right. If you don't want to do it right, save your money and just don't do it.

So, my seo workload estimation tool says for 80 links you will roughly need 320 man hours, if you have that manpower, before to go for it, consider my first remark about a natural growth path and multiply accordingly for the following months.

And let me repeat it, if you don't do it right you are wasting your money. This is not formula 1, it's clock making, you need care, patience and attention to details.

[Toddfoster]

Hello,

As stated above, you want to make sure that any links you are acquiring are high-quality rather than high-quantity. The link-building team at our agency uses a grading system to determine what links are "worthwhile" in order to optimize the time they spend on link-building efforts.

Generally speaking, standard "run-of-the-mill" links can be created relatively quickly - about 20 an hour, if you have a team working on it who know what they're doing.

For the high-quality links, you have to do your research. Some of the links we acquire have taken us weeks to put together, depending on the method used. Your site can handle as many links as you want to send it, the idea here is to make sure you are pursuing relevant links (even irrelevant links won't hurt you if they have good metrics).

It is totally normal for a link profile to feature irrelevant links - these don't have to be cleaned up as long as they are sending the right messages to search engines (authority and trustworthiness).

To answer your question in short, you want to build 1000's of links to your site. Just make sure they are powerful and somewhat relevant and you're golden.

[MattAntonino]

This is the wrong question. You can earn as many links as you can possibly get each month. So technically the answer is "as many as possible." But this means the right links. Obviously spamming XRumer & GSA link blasts from Fiverr are going to hurt you whether it's 20 links a month or 20,000.

Quantity is not your concern here - quality is. The better your links, the more you want. The worse, then fewer is better (less cleanup of the garbage later.)

[Direct_Ram]

Thanks for commenting.. we are launching a online travel agent website. Aware of the quality standards of links, with relavance, variety and moz, majestic standards.. but mainly concerned about how many we can build as we woul dlike faster rankings (i know its the cliche)

thanks

[Highland]

The correct answer is... as many as you can afford the time to build correctly

From the Moz link building guide

There are lots and lots of ways to get links. The right tactics for you depend on the resources you have at your disposal as well as the industry that you're in. Industries that are more established and competitive often require you to be quite aggressive with link building, and you might find earning those links more difficult. Other industries, often the newer industries that are quickly growing, are full of opportunities to engage with bloggers and build a community.

But the key here is to BUILD VALUE. From Rand's recent Whiteboard Friday

I would urge you to go the opposite direction. Narrow your funnel. Worry less about the number of people you're targeting and more about the success rate, because once you get the success rate high, you can turn up the volume really fast. But if your success rate is low and there's a limited market of influencers in your field, you can quickly burn all of them with your outreach before you ever have a chance to get good at it.

The simple fact is that your question is, more or less, "How many low quality links can I safely build?" and the answer there is none. I could easily go get 80 links... and then those links would get devalued or draw a Penguin penalty. Instead, you need to build quality links, and that means you have to take time to build some value with what you're offering to them. To sum up that Whiteboard Friday "There are no shortcuts to build quality links". You have to do it low and slow. If someone is willing to give you a link for little or nothing then that link isn't work building.