Question about placing links

[Rob-]

My company have a website about car related business. I have found around 8-10 sites that is car related which can place links to me. I am wondering whats the best way to make this most effective.

I have been writing 8 different texts with maybe 200-250 words each which i plan to use on the sites that is going to link to my site. Should i use exact anchors links or should i use different anchors on every site so it looks more natural? My site today does not have much quality links to it which i believe can make problem when you get 8-10 new sites linking that is very related and have a nice content?

How long time should i wait when i put a link to each site to make it less unnatural?

Happy for any answer!

[Rob-]

Hi Silkstream,

Thanks for the fast and good answer. Will take the advice and start with the links.

[Silkstream]

People are going to tell you to just "keep it natural" or "don't just make it look natural, be natural", etc. Which of course is true. But not really helpful.

I'd say have a blend of anchor text. Don't use exact match keyword more than once if it sounds unnatural, consider long tail anchors, keep majority branded or branded+modifier, look at semantically related phrasing, etc. And don't use it in spammy context!

But, possibly more importantly, make sure that the sites that you are linking from are good quality websites. Links from 8-10 relevant-but-meh websites aren't as good as 2-3 relevant-and-awesome websites.

If you're concerned about timing, stagger them over a month. Otherwise, 8-10 in a small amount of time shouldn't matter too much as some of those pages might not even be crawled by Google for days or even weeks. All depends on the websites you're linking from.