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How many links per week is too fast in link building?
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For a new website/blog how many links per week looks suspicious or hurt the rankings?
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One problem with "building" links is that the more of them you acquire the harder they are to get.
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There is no fixed number. The most significant factors are going to be threefold:
- What does your historical link growth look like? (obviously this doesn't apply to a new site)
- Will Google be able to correlate new link growth with an event? (Social promotion, press release, site re-design, etc.)
- The quality of the links you are building and the way in which they are built (anchor text, DA, PA, etc).
From what I've seen Google takes a baseline, a "normal rate of growth" for both your site and your niche. If you site has had steady or stagnant link growth for years, and all of a sudden you start building a ton of links, that can be a red flag.
For a brand new site, things are a bit different.
Google is going to try to determine, A. have other sites like yours grown this way, B. are these new links spammy or manipulative, and C. does your link growth correlate with something in the news, some social signal, etc.
Of course, at the same time your site will be analyzed from an on-site perspective as well, so if your on-site SEO isn't up to snuff, or you've got duplicate content or indexing issues, link building may not help much regardless of quantity or velocity.
So again, as EGOL said, there is no fixed number. Just try to see things from Google's point of view and keep your link building above board. If you use quality inbound marketing tactics to build links, you shouldn't see any problems.
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Hmm - if you did 50 per week for 2 weeks then did 100 for 3 weeks and 150 for 4 weeks then you wont be looked at as spammy. Think of this: when do you think those links will get indexed anyway? It's best to keep a chart of what you did each day and come back and check to see if it's there or not. ( like blog commenting )
If you are doing blog commenting them maybe you can subscribe to responses as well. But like EGOL said: natural. As long as you're not using software to build links then you will be fine. The question is: How many links CAN you build a day?
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Lots and lots of people ask this question... but think about it....
If I answered... "Fifty links is too many."..... and you listened.....
.... but all of the websites on the first page of Google for your keyword were naturally earning 200 per week.... you could work forever and never make first page.
You need information about relative link velocity and link quality.
It is possible that you and three other people working would never be able to create enough links.
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