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How many Backlinks do I need to rank on the first page of Google?

How many Backlinks do I need to rank on the first page of Google?

Update: You can now read the second part of my backlink experiment after 6 months. What works for Google and what doesn’t?

How many times have you asked yourself this question? Maybe 10, 50 or more than 100 times?

Well, I have good news for you. You don’t need thousands or even hundreds of backlinks.

It turns out you don’t need that much, and that’s good because Googlne has changed its algorithm from quantity, to quantity and quality. But quality is more important now.

In fact, you can make it to the first page of Google with just a few backlinks and I bet you can count them with the fingers from your hands and feet. Do you want me to prove it?

Let’s make an experiment!

After one year of creating Stream SEO, I’ve built around 4,100 backlinks (verified with Majestic SEO) and I have a few articles positioned in the first page of Google already. Some of them are even on the first 3 results shown, and those are bringing me a good chunk of traffic now.

But guess what?

I haven’t build a lot of backlinks to those articles. Some of them have 2-3 backlinks. The best ones have 10-15 backlinks only. And I’m not the only one saying this. There’s a recent article at MOZ explaining how a guy achieved this with 13 backlinks. All of them with different anchor text.

So, let’s make an experiment again. I’ll try to rank one of my recent articles on the first page of Google and see how it works. I might need some help from you here, but I’ll do my best on my own and show you all the results.

I’m choosing a pair of articles I wrote back on December, to make sure they’re well indexed right now. Those are my Squarespace Review and my Squarespace vs WordPress article.

Have a look at the keyword research analysis at Market Samurai. I’m using phrase match type and here’s the number of visitors I could receive on a monthly basis while being at the first result on Google search results.

how many backlinks do you need traffic

So basically, that is 546 visits per month on the Squarespace Review keyword, and 302 visits if I rank first on the Squarespace vs WordPress keyword.

Right now, I’m already ranking with both of them on the first 100 results, but not on the first 10 results (first page). Here are my rank tracker results so I can be totally transparent with you:

how many backlinks do you need rank search engines

The first column shows Google’s search engine rankings and then comes Bing and Yahoo. It usually takes a lot more to rank on Bing and Yahoo (a few months) while it takes me a pair of weeks to get into the first 100 results on Google.

So right now I’m in number 18 and 21, and as you can see, I’ve moved up and down on both keywords recently (red means going down and green means going up!).

Now this test wouldn’t be interesting if the keywords were super easy to beat, or extremely difficult. Both keywords have some competitors. Some of them easy to beat and some of them not that much. Here’s how it looks.

Squarespace Review:

how many backlinks do you need competition analysis

As you can see, there are a lof of reviews out there, and one of them comes from a Youtube video. Also, results #7 and 8 are directly from the squarespace official page, but those are from one of their apps, not directly form their web hosting service.

Squarespace vs WordPress:

how many backlinks do you need competition

Now this one looks more interesting. The results look easier to beat, but there’s a powerful result coming from the Forbes magazine website. Aside from that, the first result comes from a page with exact match domain (who said Google’s EMD update took all of them away?) and result #9 comes from Squarespace forum.

My plan – How many backlinks do I need?

I’m going to start testing this week, from February 10 (2013). I’ll try to build no more than 1-3 backlinks per week (quality backlinks, no SPAM or spun content) and then track everything back with Market Samurai’s rank tracker as I’ve shown you before.

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Then I’ll quickly update this article every week and let you know the results. I want you to notice everything in the process, so I’m including the pages where I’m getting the backlinks and even the anchor text.

And about anchor text, I’ll be very careful and use different anchor text every time, or at least keep my main keyword no higher than 25% of the backlinks created.

I’ll try different keywords like:

  • Squarespace Review
  • Squarespace 6 Review
  • Squarespace vs WordPress
  • Squarespace vs. WordPress
  • WordPress vs Squarespace
  • WordPress alternatives
  • and know knows what else depending on the topic

Weekly log

Week 0: February 10

  • Backlinks created this week: 0
  • Position on Google (Squarespace Review): 21
  • Position on Google (Squarespace vs WordPress): 18

how many backlinks do you need rank search engines

This was the first week and the articles had 0 backlinks. However, if I remember correctly, I created a few (less than 5 backlinks) while commenting on commentluv enabled plugins. Both articles are on the 2nd or 3rd page of Google and they’ve been there for almost a month or so.

Week 1: February 17

  • Backlinks Created this week: 2
  • Position on Google (Squarespace Review): 18
  • Position on Google (Squarespace vs WordPress): 14
  • Position on Yahoo (Squarespace vs WordPress): 5

How many backlinks week 1

This week I decided to create 2 backlinks from different domains: Hubpages and Squidoo.

Those aren’t backlinks on cheap comments or articles just made for get a backlink with a low quality content. I wrote 2 different articles which I think will rank well on both sites both of them related to Squarespace.

For my Squarespace Review both backlinks have the same Anchor Text: “Review”

For my Squarespace vs WordPress comparison, one of them has “Squarespace vs WordPress Analysis” as anchor text and the other one is “Squarespace vs WordPress Comparison“.

As you can see, both of them got better rankings and are know located on position 14 and 18 on the second page of google.

Additionally, I’d like to pop out that my Squarespace vs WordPress comparison appeared on the first page of Yahoo this week! How? I don’t know. But I’ve seen that many times when i have a good article ranked on Google, it will rank high on Yahoo and Bing too. If I’m on the 2nd or 3rd page of Google, most probably I’m on the first page of Yahoo and/or Bing already.

Less competition, I guess…

Week 2: February 24

To be Honest this has been a pretty hectic week for me. I’ve been working until late at the office and had no time to build backlinks to my articles. As you can see, I barely posted 1 new article here at Stream SEO too. However, here are the good news:

  • Backlinks Created this week: 0
  • Position on Google (Squarespace Review): 16
  • Position on Google (Squarespace vs WordPress): 11
  • Position on Bing (Squarespace vs WordPress): 4
  • Position on Yahoo (Squarespace vs WordPress): 6

How many backlinks week 2

The new surprise here is that even when I didn’t make any extra backlinks this week, I was still able to scale 2-4 more places on Google search rankings.

That’s really good.

And also my article is now ranking on the 4st result of Bing, while Yahoo decided to drop my article 1 position only. So basically, I’m on the first page of Yahoo and Bing, and 1 position away to appear on the first page of Google too! I’m happy.

But there’s more.

See that little number at the right of the URL on the image above? It’s showing backlinks (BLP).

That means I have 2 backlinks for my Squarespace Review but 8 backlinks to my Squarespace vs WordPress comparison???

So I fired the SEO competition module and added both URLs to get the source of those backlinks and i found something interesting. All these backlinks appearing on my rank tracker are backlinks created by commenting 1 month ago or so on January/December. They finally decided to appear here and they’re giving me some juice already!

Who said good quality comments on other blogs didn’t work?

Anyway, that’s how this business works. Work now and reap the rewards later. Also, I’m curious to know what will happen when my 2 articles created from Hubpages and Squidoo are added to the algorithm. Those, and a pair of extra backlinks I’m creating the next week on 2.0 websites (each one with it’s own original article).

Stay tuned! I’m so close to appear on the first page of the 3 major search engines, and then I’m fighting to get into the first 3 results.

Week 3: March 3

This week I’ve been creating backlinks from comments only. No more posts until I see if they’re getting indexed or not. Even though it’s difficult to know.

Most of the comments I’ve done have a backlink to those specific pages using commentluv and my comment strategy.

  • Backlinks Created this week: 5 (comments)
  • Position on Google (Squarespace Review): 22 (dropped)
  • Position on Google (Squarespace vs WordPress): 3
  • Position on Bing (Squarespace vs WordPress): 4
  • Position on Yahoo (Squarespace vs WordPress): 5

How many backlinks week 3

As you can see, my Squarespace vs. WordPress article now ranks 3 on Google and it’s on 4 and 5 for Bing and Yahoo.

At this point, I’m getting around 20-30 visits per day on this article, which means I’m getting almost 1 thousand visitors per month. If you watch my first impressions on the number of visits I researched with Market Samurai, you’ll see that originally, I was expecting to get 300 more visitors when ranking on the first result, however I’m getting much more than that thanks to other long tail keywords which I’m not tracking yet.

In fact, just as I’m writing this update my keyword seems to be ranked on number 2! (Market Samurai’s Rank Tracker updates each Thursday.

How many backlinks week 3-2

This is why I always recommend to look for long tail keywords and expect at least Exact Match results (don’t expect broad results to appear ASAP).

How many backlinks week 3-1

My Squarespace review has dropped a few places and this looks natural to me.  I didn’t build any backlinks for this article yet because I got happy about my results. It dropped 6 places and I hope to get it back later. For now, I’ll focus on the other article as it’s giving me results already.

Week 4: March 10

I went out to Cancun (yeah!) for business reasons I really wasn’t able to work on my experiment that much. That said, I was able to create at least 3 backlinks from comments, especially targeted to the WordPress vs. Squarespace article. Here are the results for this week!

  • Backlinks Created this week: 3 (comments)
  • Position on Google (Squarespace Review): 36 / 42 (read below)
  • Position on Google (Squarespace vs WordPress): 2
  • Position on Bing (Squarespace vs WordPress): 0 (dropped out from Bing)
  • Position on Yahoo (Squarespace vs WordPress): 4

How many backlinks week 4-1

Let’s start with the Squarespace vs. WordPress article.

In short, it’s doing great. This week I’m receiving between 40-50 visits per day just for this article, which is WAY HIGHER than the original expectations from Exact Match results. This means I’m getting around 1,300 visitors per month just for this article (4 times bigger than expected) from different long tail keywords. I wonder how much traffic will I receive if I hit the number 1 spot.

Note aside, I’ve been dropped from Bing results this week. I don’t know why, but still, Bing wasn’t really giving me traffic. Google is my primary source and it’s rocking.

How many backlinks week 4-3

But if you didn’t notice, I now have 296 backlinks to this article! How is this possible if I haven’t build that much?

I fired up the SEO competition module and discovered that many backlinks are coming from a blog I don’t even know. I think I left a comment one day and since this blog is using the “Top Commenters” plugin I might have appeared on the sidebar for every page, creating so many backlinks at the time and now they’re indexed.

This is funny, because I’m not there anymore, and I wonder what will happen later when Google can’t find those backlinks anymore. Time will tell.

Here are my results for my Squarespace Review article:

How many backlinks week 4-2

Ugh, looking bad.

So bad that even my Squarespace comparison is ranking better than my review at this moment for the same keyword!

As you can notice, even though I build a few backlinks they’re not indexed yet, so I still see only 2 backlinks on my Market Samurai Tracker. I guess I’ll put more attention to this article now that other one is doing good alone.

This is where I could use some help

I’m not asking you to create backlinks or anything like that for me. But if you find this experiment interesting and would like to give me some feedback or simply want to share it with another person, please do so.

Share it, +1 it, like it, pin it or whatever.

I’d just like to make it easy and I’ll report updates every week. I want to probe I’m correct (or maybe not) and show you how I positioned some of my articles on the first page of Google.

This can be done again, and it’s all about creating quality backlinks. Forget about buying thousands of backlinks or using softwares and black-hat techniques. Those won’t help you. And if they do, it won’t last for that long. I promise. Shall we start?

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  3. Thanks for the info. It only took 10 backlinks to jump from page 2 to page 1 for a not so competitive keyword.

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    • Do you mean creating many external backlinks for different pages of your website or creating backlinks from different pages of another website that point to your site?

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    • You should have a mix between both of them. No website has only links to a homepage or links to a specific post.
      A healthy link profile has usually more links to the homepage but also links to other pages where it comes naturally.

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  9. Hi Servando,
    Thanks for sharing each and every detail of your work schedule. Will help a lot to newbies like you. I always thought more backlinks means higher ranking. From your case , It seems that competition and quality our the main factors which effect google rank (Maybe low Bounce rate effect).

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    • We get started with different comments and free backlinks and depending on the difficulty we move to outreach and proper marketing.

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  11. I was looking for this kind of article only. This article is really very helpful and the way you have provided all the information is really very helpful.

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  12. Hi!

    I have a site that is 16 months old and gets like 50 organic visits a day

    For like the first 11 months i sent around 5 backlinks in total, since i didnt exactly know what backlinks were.

    November 2018 = 11 backlinks
    December 2018= 13 Backlinks
    January 2019= 24 backlinks

    Is this a normal phase? And how long do you think (roughly) it will take to notice the effect?

    All of the links are high/medium quality, only guest posts and some home page links. All relevant to niche.

    Ive sent around 15 of the january links to homepage with mainly url/branded anchors and the rest is to inner pages

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    • Well, those aren’t any huge numbers so I wouldn’t care much unless you’re doing something shady (e.g. all backlinks have the same anchor text, or links come from spammy sites, etc.).

      I can’t tell you how long it will take to make changes in your rankings because the quality of the backlink is much more important than the quantity but usually it takes a few weeks to see the results.

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  13. How much backlinks needed for rank 1st on google. How to plan for a backlinks to get 1st position on search engine. Nd how much backlinks needed each article for rank 1 plzz tell both questions

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    • Did you read the article?
      There’s no fixed number as it all depends on the competition and quality of your links, that’s why I made this experiment and then updated it after 6 months with the results.

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  14. well, one thing this article did prove is that you don’t need many backlinks…..that’s what I am searching for the time being.

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  15. i found this article pretty informative, im trying to figure out if i should spend time creating content on or off my website. this helped me make a decision, however, it seems as though all the content has to be original?

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    • Yes. Original content is what everybody looks for and Google cares a lot of duplicated content as they easily recognize it.

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  16. Hey Nice Blog!
    I’m working on the same you shared from last 3 months but still my site is not reflection on Google Search Console. Can you please check (livexpertsolution.com) and suggest where i am lagging.

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    • Honestly, you just started doing backlinks 3 months ago with a new site so it’s going to take longer.
      I can see you have around 150 backlinks from almost 50 different domains already and your page authority is starting to grow but it’s just in the beginning phase.

      Also I can see many of your links come from social bookmarks, RSS feeds and similar, so those links are not as powerful as relevant links from high authority sites.
      Keep it going though, it looks like you’ve got some momentum already.

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  17. Hey, thanks for providing tips on building good backlinks. I’ll try to implement the strategy you’ve mentioned for a few days and see how it goes.

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    • Most probably not.
      Unless you go for super easy keywords without competition where you might rank in the first page you won’t be able to rank without backlinks.
      Backlinks are still king in the SEO business and i’d say they represent 70% of the importance to rank.

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    • It depends on the competition of your keyword. How small or niche is your theme isn’t as important as competition.

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  21. You have really nice info…I still working on my website for next event hope it will be ranked before 15th…this was good website about Computer event i Jogja…and has domain aged for almost 6 years old

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  23. Hello

    Interesting, I’m a bit surprised you had luck with commentLuv the plug-in had so much potential, but I can’t find many sites using it and even fewer still have updated it to accept SSL.

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    • Hi Michael.
      The plugin had a lot of potential but I remember the owner had some severe health problems back in 2012 and I think he stopped developing it after a while which was pretty sad.

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  24. There is a small spelling mistak at the end of week 2. You have written mayor in stead of major..

    Please correct it.

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  27. I find the information useful from the experimental data given in weeks. From what all I am reading about SEO it is pointing to good content that works wonders and nothing else. Building natural backlinks is through writing informative content and contributing to other bloggers in their hard work and gaining viewers and visitors. Thanks for the info.backlinks

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  30. Hey,
    Very interresting article even if I didn t understand very well, how it ends actually 🙂

    Did you rank first on google?

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    • For that particular keyword I ended-up ranking in the 2nd place for a good time and then other pages moved me to 4th.
      Nowadays I think i’m out of the first page but I’m not tracking that keyword anymore. We’re ranking for hundreds of other keywords though

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  31. Hello servando
    I wanna to know that you create your website backlink or a particular page backlink that you wanna to index on google or if I create my website backlink is my other page index on google

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    • Backlinks can go to specific pages if those are what you want to rank. It depends on the content and how you structure your site.
      Having links to your homepage also helps and make sit more natural.

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  33. This is an awesome experiment here I am sitting on my computer table trying to build tons of links thank God I read your post now I will try to build only quality backlinks

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  34. Hi Servando,

    Great case study! Your experiment gave me a lot of inputs and I got inspired to try something on my own. I created a new website, built some backlinks, had some articles and the PA and DA of it went up. I only built 4 back links and my DA ranked to 5. From my observation and yours, quality backlinks and carefully placing anchor texts really means a lot. I also tried out the tools that you used to track your rankings and it was awesome. Thanks a lot!

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  35. Nice Article, very helpful for us.
    1. content is more importance
    2. after contact back link is check google for high ranking.

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    • There are many ways to build backlinks and hundreds of guides out there if you do a Google search 🙂

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  38. Thank you for the wonderful roundup! I was trying to get into SEO freelancing and this cheatsheet will be very resourceful for me 🙂

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  39. Nice work done. Thanks for helping out, this thung about backlinks it so daunting and time consuming, can’t find time to concentrate on writing anymore as am constantly looking for how am going to give infoexposure more links

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  40. So educative and shedding some light on what really works; thats where I wanted most. I could not ask for more! I will come back to read through all those anchors you have pointed out. Thanks for the wonderful post.

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  41. Hi,

    This is awesome and very useful information. I can use all these points in my work,
    Thanks a lot !!!

    Regards,
    Sumit

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  43. This was a nice read.

    I spotted a mistake here : “Now this test wouldn’t be interesting it the keywords were super easy to beat”.

    I think you mean’t to write “IF”, not “IT”

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  44. nice journey

    how do you filter good from bad web2.0s?

    the top comment blog is definetely something i ll look into cheers!

    ps: interested to read update 🙂

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  48. Actually quality do not matter.
    Google is checking for natural backlinks and if you have only high pagerank websites that has the backlink. google going to punish that site.
    A mix of high and low and mix with nofollow backlinks is the best.
    Source: Google.

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    • Yeah, that’s what they say…
      Not what actually happens though. Quality matters, along with diversification as well.

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  49. That topic really helpful for any SEO expert. They need to follow this tricks for ranking on the google or other else.

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  50. Which is easiest way to create backlinks with quality. And can i create the backlinks for
    landing page or product page.

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    • They’re good for diversification but for comments they won’t work unless your keyword has very little competition.

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  54. Great post! Please tell me some useful ways to create quality backlinks. And can I use Fiverr to increase my backlinks.

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  55. Thank you for this wonderful blog. True, quality is always best than the quantities of backlinks. Keep on posting posts like this one. Thank you for sharing.

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  57. Easy and applicable ways to get backlinks fast! social media is one of the best and fast way to generate traffic on your website.. Thanks,…

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  58. Thank you so much for briefing. I already generated so many back links but from now I will start doing differently.

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    • Hi Alex.
      There are a lot of tutorials about guest posting online. I don’t think there’s one focused on SEO because what most people do is just leave backlinks in the guest posts and that’s it.

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  62. I have 500 back links and more than 30 different domains but I am not getting traffic on my site can you show me reason ?

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    • Not enough info to answer.
      How did you get those backlinks and when did it happen? Are they indexed by Google? What’s the competition for the keyword you’re trying to rank?

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    • If you’re in a niche you like, you will know what content is relevant and you could search for your competitors also and swap links with them. Google search should helo you achieve this without problem.
      Search for the same keywords and related keywords in your niche you’re trying to rank and open all google results and start contacting people to get backlinks.

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  66. That’s awesome post. I believe that we can get a good rank by using mixed backlink technical: high-quality guest post and blog comments.

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  67. I like your seo case study. I am trying to do something similar for my blog but planning to keep it personal lol.

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  70. Man, it really is very good to note that you are replying back on all people’s query within the comments. Normally SEO people don’t do that.

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  72. nice information ever Servando Silva,
    I was searching for best ranking methods and reach to your post.
    I was just confused to creating a lot of backlinks to ranking factor but your guidance helps a lot.
    I’ll definitely you use your guidance method practically and try to get improvement.
    Thaks for sharing.

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  73. I did a Google search to see if comment linking was a dead practice, and landed on your post. Lots of great information ~ I was also wondering about Hubpages so this article hit two birds with one stone. 🙂 I read another article about Scrapebox to find blogs to comment on — what is your opinion on that?

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    • Thanks June. Glad you’re liking it.
      Scrapebox can be a very useful tool to do a lot of things, including where to post comments but use it to a point where it’s not spammy.

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  74. I like your seo case study. I am trying to do something similar for my blog but planning to keep it personal lol. I would just like to know how many backlinks i would need to rank my major kewords on serp.

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  77. I have outsourced creating backlinks to my site. But it very hard to get edu backlinks. and gov. links these days which arr key to site ranking. Any good tips on how to get edu. and gov. backlinks?

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  78. Hey Servando, I really your post structure and how you planned out this experiment, really insightful stuff! Hope to see more.

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  79. amazing reach dude. really very impressive article. Your telling very straight point for backlinks building.

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  80. Thanks for your great post. As you mentioned above how many backlinks you have to create. But sir which sites you used to make back links. On which sites you submit your articles. Can you explain please.

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  81. Very nice experiment. The key factor is to put your LSI keywords in your content when creating you content, but use random anchor/text when link building. I think people get confused, and think they need to use those LSI keywords in their link building campaigns, and what they end up doing is really over-optimizing their anchor/text profile, and that is a big No, No with google. Google is not stupid folks, if your keywords are in your content, and your content is on que about your topic, then do not use those keywords when building backlinks; Google is looking for natural, random anchor/text for your profile. I assure you that google will know what you page is all about, and google will rank your page accordingly, and sometimes you may even get a surprise as you wanted to rank for ABC keyword, but you end up ranking for XZY keyword, but the last thing you want to do is try to fool google in any manner! Keep your nose clean, post high quality human readable content, obtain only high authority backlinks, and use random anchor/text. You will thank me later.

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  83. Appreciate the guide Servando. Looking to try it on my new website mamajunior.org. Pretty sure it will work wonders

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  84. With havin so much content and articles do you ever run into any issues of plagorism or copyright infringement?
    My blog has a lot of unique content I’ve either authored myself or outsourced but it looks like a lot of
    it is popping it up all over the internet without my authorization. Do you know any solutions to help
    stop content from being stolen? I’d definitely appreciate it.

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    • Hello.
      Yes, people and bots steal and copy my content every single day for the last 5 years.
      I just don’t care about it anymore.

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  87. Great article with deep details, I have bookmark you for feature reference.
    I really interesting in affiliate marketing.

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  90. Verry good and informative. SEO is a verry hard and time taking.

    i am going to bookmark this one and come back one a later moment!

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  91. Really awesome article.. For SEO backlink is very important.. you describe it well… thanks for sharing it.. keep writing bro

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  92. Thanks for very informative article.

    nice post bro. backlink is a power of post and i was taste the backlink a blog have higher pr to make lot of backlinks so i have just started to create backlink to guest posting on my niche sites oyur post is very nice so thankyou very much

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  94. I have outsourced creating backlinks to my site. But it very hard to get edu. and gov. links these days which arr key to site ranking. Any good tips on how to get edu. and gov. backlinks?

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    • I think in my whole life I just got a couple of .edu or .gov links, and they were organic so I really didn’t do anything to get them.

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    • It depends on the competition of the keyword. Also, don’t use all the backlinks with the same anchor text because it doesn’t look natural and that’s how many sites get penalized.

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  97. Very useful information.i read whole analysis and it really guided me well to increase my website google ranking.

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    • If the main purpose of commenting was getting a link, this happens all the time. There are many ways to build links and comments work either in unattended websites or by leaving some decent insights and leaving a link related to what you’re commenting in high quality websites.

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  99. Search engines remain as one of the most popular web services on the Internet. People are actively searching for different categories of information every day and some of the things they look for may relate to what your website is offering.

    Assuming that the keywords are present in the domain name, your site can appear in the list of search engine results because the search engine can see the link to your website. People can click on these results to see the page where the link is present and read any other information that is associated with the link.

    One can increase traffic on real estate website by se0.

    Thanks for being sharing such a valuable post.

    Regards
    Ronald K. Roy

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    • It’s an experiment I did some time ago, so many of the backlinks aren’t there anymore and a lot more form other sources have been added.
      Glad you liked it.

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  102. Great analysis, thanks, I just built 2 brand new websites for my friends, both are on 30-40 position on google for target keywords, I was wondering if it even make sense to create automatic backlinks, looks like they can hurt more then benefit my sites, will try to get some high quality links

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  106. good day Servando, exceptional publish! i’m curious however, I hear lots of humans speaking about back links and particularly “great” backlinks. i am fairly new to blogging and greater in an effort to seo and oneway links. How do you determine first-rate backlinks? How do you move approximately obtaining excellent one-way links? i lately came across a piece of writing that mentioned one way links and the approach they communicate about is developing numerous microblogs along with on blogger, wordpress.com, weebly and so on. They then hyperlink those blogs to their predominant weblog. They power a number of links to the microblogs which supposedly filters thru to their cash website. is this an amazing strategy? What reccomendations can you are making to someone new like me for building backlinks?

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    • That would be called a private link network.
      It’s a pretty normal strategy a lot of SEOs do. I wouldn’t call it amazing, just standard and common.

      If you want the best backlinks you’re going to have to work your way up to huge authority sites. But you can start networking with people in the same niche you are to get some decent backlinks first.

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  107. Thanks for the post! Indeed I asked this question so many times to myself. And after appeared in the middle of nowhere… Your post makes a complete sense to me.

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  109. Great sharing. It is really an interesting thinking. We know how important the quality backlinks are? Without having a lot of quality backlinks no one can rank in google. This is really a new idea to me. Because I didn’t know about it before that how many backlinks do I need to rank in Google first page? thank you so much for your awesome sharing.

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  111. Learnt one more technique, which is worth an try and easy too, who says backlink won’t work anymore.
    After reading this article I have atleast started believing that things would work only when we do it the way it needs to be done, also understand what google algorithm is telling us with its results.
    good article, keep writing latest techniques also welcome you to read blog on new android phones just hosted on blogger.

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  112. I know some people make things harder then it needs to be. People tend to harp over (I cant get backlinks…) however, they tend up making mistakes long before trying to get backlinks they may not help their cause. 1: Niche research is very important. If you get this wrong, then you will fail, it is that simple. 2: keyword research can lead to disaster also if you do not target the right keywords in your niche. You need to target low/med comp keywords for your niche. Do not target keywords over that have metrics over 30. ie: if you target keywords that have metrics of 60, then your efforts will be just a waste of time, even if you target keywords with 30, you may still find some RESISTANCE,but you would be able to rank these keywords in your lifetime. target niche related keywords 30 or under. 3: bad/poor content; Over the past few years, google has been cleaning up the internet, bad links, spam, low quality content, etc. Your content needs to be shap, and provide high value to your visitors; If you can solve problems, then i can rest assured you will get backlinks as you would not have to build them, everyone else will be building links for you. There are other factors, however, I am out of time for today. here is a tip: build your house with solid stones, and your house will have will have far less risk of falling down. these basic skills are a must, they are not hard, however, seo is a time consuming process.

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  113. Hi Silva, Im a new blogger and As i came across with a lot of tutorials and advises of Pretending gurus online, I just sometimes came to the point that I became lost. Dont know exactly what to do and to follow. First was with launching a blog up to generating traffic. But As I came across here, I noticed something about backlinks, someone said that I should build a lot of that. But I will follow your advise here and see how this will work with mine. LooK, I failed with my first blog and my only goal is just to earn an income to sustain my daily needs as I dont have a job right now. Im thinking that this strategy will also worked with mine. thanks you for the great post any. Been following some of your post as well.

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  115. Great information. I have recently been quoted in a few bigger sites for my company and was curious what impact it may make. Thanks for the insights.

    Jess – President of the Marketing and Networking University

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  116. Hello,
    Got your email regarding “how many backlinks do I need”. It was the nice article. My question is if we need quality backlinks for boost ranking in keywords. But how we get quality back-links. In 2016 directory submissions is not good for backlinks.
    Answer is only social media marketing for backlinks ??
    How to get quality backlinks in 2016 ?

    Thanks.

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    • Doing guest posts, PBNs, social media, building many sites, etc.
      Directory submissions don’t work anymore, but all the rest are still pretty active.

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  117. Seems Innovative Idea Servando! Though there is no such critrea in order to determine number of backlinks for acheving top slots in search engine; still relevency is the key of the success for ranking of keywords.

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  118. Hello,
    Your article is on point this is how easy one can actually create backlinks. Aside from squidoo and hubpage can you recommend others.

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  119. Very Nice Article sir.
    My question is that i have to use the anchor text to be the same with the keyword that is ranking high or that is searched more. like i want to rank website for android apps so i have to use the anchor Android Apps ?

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    • You should use it but only on a percentage of your links or you will get penalized. You can use it like 10-30% of the time and the rest you can use long tail or related keywords.

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  121. Hey there, really nice article. I just started techandroid.com and i’ve been struggling to fetch some traffic. Can you tell me, how long will it take for my website to rank in search engines? It is very hard to get links as the site is relatively new.

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  122. I love this article, I always focus on my quality article, Please give us some information about quality article. thank you

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  123. Very good article, There is a list I have created with over 1000 high quality backlinks that you can implement if you so want. let me know if you need it.

    Dani

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  124. I don’t build links manually. I just focus on quality article. Yes, I need time to gain backlinks. But it is free penalty…

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  125. Sir my website is real estate Qatar.my website category is classified how many back links need #1 rank in Qatar google search

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    • I have no idea. You can’t really ask someone like that and expect a complete answer without saying much. Have you done keyword research?

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  126. Hello, I would like to know if this technique still works? I’m doing a PBN and creating backlinks in sites like hubpages. Thank you very much!

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  127. really helpful for new learners who are trying to seo their sites..These backlink site lists are very effective… My alexa rank upgraded a lot trying these sites….

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  128. GREAT BLOG.GOOD TO CHECK WHAT EXCTLY BACKLINKS ARE GETTING CREATED AND WHAT MORE PROGRESS WE NEED .. GOOD TO HAVE THIS ARTICLE HELPFUL IN MANAGING BACKLINKS. THANKS .

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  129. Great article Boss, sincerely this post has been configured to assist bloggers like me. I have few quality articles on my blog that should be ranking well but due to lack of sufficient back links they are not getting the desires ranks from Google. Considering backlinks from commenting on authority blogs like you’rs. How do you get back link back to your blog, since specific links to your articles are not included in the comments?..,
    Secondly, should all my quality articles get relevant backlinks to boost ranking?

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    • Sometimes you can leave backlinks if it’s definitely useful in the comment. Otherwise there are ways to get backlinks by talking with the owners and doing outreach/guest posts, etc.

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  131. My website got ranked in the first page of Bing and Yahoo search engine at the very beginning stage. But still struggling to rank in google. A contradiction to thing which you have said “It usually takes a lot more to rank on Bing and Yahoo (a few months) while it takes me a pair of weeks to get into the first 100 results on Google.”

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  132. Nice information sir , actually i was confused about how many backlinks needed but finally i got right information, thank you.

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  133. Just reading this article, and just know about hubpages.

    Did write in a hubpages have a great impact to get a backlink?
    How many article should be write on a hubpages? I was write at least 2 article there.

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  134. Hello,

    I’ve been following your articles and I am impressed with your knowledge and the amount of work needed to rank higher on google.

    I’ve tried submitting some articles on hubpages but man they are strict. Anyways i’ve made a couple small niche websites and a personal blog that i’ve like to get ranked higher but i always have trouble building backlinks as they always seem to never get approved. At first I outsourced my backlinking but now i’m afraid as it’s possible to get deindexed by the spammy content on outsourcing it elsewhere.

    I’ll admit i’m new to SEO and spent all my time building the website/articles so I was wondering if there are any examples of you building backlinks.

    examples as in blog posting, or articles that you submit, any how you easily find sites to make backlinks on as I don’t even know where to start.

    Thanks!
    Alan

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  135. Dude you did this experiment in 2014 but is it still valid to do it in 2015 can you again do this experiment again and tell or update with results.

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  136. this post was exactly was i was looking for and your experience in creating backlinks and showing the example to us was awesome and encouraging. now i will start building 2-3 backlinks to my top posts and hope to improve my search traffic. Thanks 🙂

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  137. If I have two website – WEBSITE-1: Floweeroty & WEBSITE-2: Gameonlogy.

    And now I put Gameonlogy Link on Floweeroty, does it means that Floweeroty is a backlink for Gameonlogy?

    Help me little confused with backlinks.

    What exactly backlink term means?

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  139. I’m familiar with the concept of backlinks, but how do you get them to your site? Do you have to comment on other blogs and leave a link back to your website or what? I really don’t know how to do this.

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    • Great article – but this is exactly what comes to my mind – how to create back links ! Where to go and how to do it – hopefully he post something about that. Because knowing the importance of having the back links but not knowing how to build them is not so helpful.

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    • Alexa means nothing for backlinks. Try checking in other tools like AHrefs, majesticSEO, etc.
      Also, consider backlinks take time (sometimes days, sometimes weeks) to get indexed in those tools.

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  141. Hey, I’m looking like this article for a week. Thank for share this. Its help me to build a video website.

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    • No. Having 50 backlinks from the same website is almost like having just 1 or 2 backlinks from it.
      Having backlinks from different websites/domains counts a lot more.

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  144. Great article (although many spelling errors but that’s ok) it has a lot of technical information that is helpful to understanding what to do to rank a blog higher. I’m still not even sure though, if posting reviews on other websites that link back to your blog count as a backlink?

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    • Hi Valerie. Yeah, my spelling isn’t the best but it’s good to know you understood the article.
      As for your question, yes it counts.

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  146. This was very useful advice right now Im trying to build my painting contractor website up and working on a blog so I can create new content and attract more visitors.

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  147. so we will need backlink to page one google , so what i should to do to make it more powerfull? and how many time we can do it?
    thanks, please answer it

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  148. Dear Servando Silva,
    Thanks for Sharing Very Helpful informational, I was looking for Something about this

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  150. I was just searching this topic and got your huge valuable information, which will be very helpful for me as beginner in SEO.Thanks.

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  151. I know this is an old article…dose the backlinks still apply in the same way here 2015? I’m trying to get my site ranking on some pretty popular keywords.

    Thanks,
    T

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    • This article works better for long tail keywords with medium-low competition.
      If you’re trying to rank difficult keywords you’ll need more than this to make it work 🙂

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  154. I NEED HELP FOR MY BOO HELP! 🙁 I’m not a techie – where can I start? so many informations floating out there – very overwhelming. THANKS Servando, well first I don’t have a website yet. BUT my book is already on Amazon. How can I spread the word without robbing a bank?

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    • One thing is making a website and a totally different one is uploading a Book to Amazon. You need different strategies but social media could be your best initial choice.

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      • Hello Servando,
        I clicked the reply button but it led me here on the ask page again. Anyway just wanted to say thank you & I’m grateful for you answering my question. SUGGESTION: I hope you can find the time to create You Tube videos, for us non-techie people who are reading so much & can’t read anymore & watching You Tube is the most convenient time saving tool.

        WEBSITE: Yes I will create that & will go back to your website for some back links instructions.

        Looking forward to your other posts – thanks for adding value to the web community.

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  155. Great explanation! Im building for my website about classified ads how to narrow to local seo?
    Thanks for this great article Servando silva!

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  156. Great tips, I like how you always use statistics and your own experience to provide much needed tips for SEO. Thanks for another post that was worth reading.

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  158. Thanks Servando Silva for this interesting and informative blog now i am looking forward and waiting for your other informative blogs thank you again…

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  160. Wow, love this article so much. So, I learn something new here; Quality Comment! I will try this one. Thank you 🙂

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  161. Wow !! It helped me alot. Thanks for sharing. But I have some doubt. How to know that backlinks are DoFollow or NoFollow.

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    • You can download a plugin for your browser to check that automatically.
      Or there are online checkers too.

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  162. I haven’t done a back linking campaign as yet, however, after reading your article I think I’ll give your method and go and sees the results. Thanks for the tips.

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  165. Really very good ideas. i like this article this is very useful for us. i am very happy to read this article. you have solved my problem. i want to see my post on the 1st page of Google. thanks a lot for good information.

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  167. Innovative Idea! Love this post, I was really looking for something like this.
    Thanks Alot for Sharing.

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  170. Google loves only fresh & unique content and high quality back links. So focus on your website content to lead your business on first page of Google.

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  171. Finally the right article for me to start link building. Can you please tell me backlinks from website reviews (though they are paid reviews) worthy and safe ?

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  172. I totally agree with the Author! Google doesnt respect crappy backlinks anymore. Quality over quantity. I did more bookmarking than backlinking and my website studyabroad365.com is faring very good!

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  173. Hey thanks for sharing this wealth of information regarding backlinks. Now I realized that always content is the king.

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  174. hi,
    Is it beneficial to buy backlinks??
    And Please give some information about building them. I will be very thankful to you. 🙂

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    • I gave a lot of info on how to build them in my email subscription. Go ahead and check it out 🙂

      Buying them… well… Google hates that.

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  176. That is an awesome post. You have really laid out your points in great detail. Very easy to follow with good content. We should take get hold of this post, read and implement the points outlined.

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  179. hi servando,
    Ranking better in google without backlinks is so interesting, to see such kind of innovation in ranking.
    Let me try and see.
    thanks for wonderful posting, Keep going.

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  180. Amazing thing about this post is, the whole thing ends up within the last paragraph that do not start buying thousands of backlinks rather keep your attention in creating high quality backlinks. The question in the heading is always asked by a lot of people and this post will help a lot of us.

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  182. Servando, Thanks for the complete guideline of Backlinks. But i have one question, if i want to do Post Backlinks, i mean, don’t the home page, i want to do Post backlinks to post ranking. Will it works ? Please let me know asap

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      • Thanks for your quick response. So, should i start with this method ? As well, i am newcomer ! What do you think ? What will better for me ? Do to Home page Backlinks or Do each post backlinks ?

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        • Do both to make them look organic as much as possible.
          If you can get a home backlink, it means your site is super relevant to the site that’s backlinking you.

          If you get post backlinks is mostly via news or guest posts. You need both.

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  185. hi silva
    Nice post, I really enjoyed the experiment and learnt a few things.
    Do you intend to update the post? 🙂

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  186. hey i have question for you guys so i did add my website url to about 8 website witch is related to my company site but when i check trough seoquake its shows me that i still have 0 backlinks , my question is why i have 0 ? and does it need more time to upgrade the info about my backlinks ?

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    • Hello Alex.
      Yes, backlinks take some weeks to appear on most backlinks checkers. Try again after a few days.

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  187. Interesting article, i have been asking this question to my self several times and finaly i found the answer here. Thumbs up

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  188. Thanks for putting together this wonderful piece of information.

    But what I am missing here, is an RSS feed. After reading the article, I searched for the same on whole page but did not find it.

    I think you should have one and let me know once you have it.

    PS: Just started to read Stream SEO Guide and I am loving it. 🙂

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      • Thanks for the message.

        Yes, I do use pocket but still I shall suggest you to have feeds. Believe me, you shall note a significant improvement in your readdership.

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        • Thanks for the suggestions man. I had feedburner but that’s it and it’s gone for a while. Any recommendation?

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  192. Hi Just one month back i enter into the SEO world. Presently I confused of Backlinks? Can you explane what are backlinks and how to use for websites these backlink and how to improve site to get more traffic…? These are all my Questions? Please reply …

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    • Hello Denis.
      Backlinks are a basic core of doing SEO. I won’t explain it here, but I’m sure a quick google search will help you understand how they work and what are they! 🙂

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  193. I have a question, it might be strange though because i have a website ready and i’m new to seo. The question is that what really are baclinks ?
    Is that i make a ad and post it on classifieds with a url link of my website or post a comment on blogs with a url link of my website ?
    or is there a special way to put my url in it to make a back link ?

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    • Hello James. Looks like you’re starting in this SEO world. I don’t have an article about the basics of backlinks, but I’m sure you’ll understand it better after a quick search on Google. Let me know if you’ve got more questions after that.

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  194. Its Brilliant, really extremely appreciated. you have cleared my concept and now i have answers for the questions i had in my mind !

    Thank you so much !!

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  195. Great Article dealing with back links, I find myself having trouble with creating good links to my site keep up the good work.

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  196. Hey..Your article is awesome… I red ur article and i found that you have suggested a blog on seomoz.org but i recently discovered that the company has shifted its domain to moz.com
    So if can update the links and mention my blog url that will be grateful…
    nonetheless you wrote awesome article which helped me a lot..Keep writing…

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  198. Looks like the amount of back links you have to your website, is becoming less and less important. I did here Google removed back links as a ranking factor as a trail to see what happens but the results were just rubbish. So they are not there yet but i do feel one day they wont matter at all.

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  199. All you say it’s true man. Nevertheless I have experienced that I have hit # 1 on google.com for the key word “hair loss and obesity” which has 2,720,000 results, without backlinks: just with good original content, good seo on page, and a web site built with a silo structure.
    It’s really weird.
    I have a relevant (not mine) you tube video enbedded on the page, and a “how to” section within the article.
    You can look it up for yourself searching in google.com “hair loss and obesity” or similar LTKW.
    Clearly, if you let me, I will leave my link to this page, so you can recognize it (and some good old backlink building – if you let me :):

    I would like to have your opinion on this

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  201. Great article, this information you have shared in priceless. Do you have any more articles like this one, maybe more on were and how to find only the best follow links.

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  204. Hi Servando,
    very interesting experiments.
    I also wonder what tool do you use to track your position, the one you attached the screenshot from?
    thanks

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  207. Though i have already created more then 10k links for my new website, but your argument is logical. from now i will prefer quality too, Thanks for sharing!

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  208. Well.. Remarkable article and useful for us and we are waiting your another useful information about SEO and please provide about info Do follow link ..
    thak you!!

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  209. Thanks for sharing these tips on backlinks. I’m just now getting started in this area, and you provided alot of vital info.

    Thanks,

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  210. This is a good information for me as a beginner, still learn a lot of information like this. Thank you for sharing this Servando..

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  212. how to reduce are website loading time if images are very big or big resolution images we are using. because it will effect our bounce rate.my website having 70% to 80% bounce rate how i will control it.Gzip is important for SEO plz tell me the process for gzip how i will do gzip of my website.

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  213. This is one of the best I have seen on Backlink building strategy. Great minds are not made by age, but by wisdom. You’ve got the wisdom! Thanks for this. I hope I have known this for a couple of months back.

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  214. How can i create google and yahoo as a back link to my website?
    I have seen many websites in alexa directory with google, fb, yahoo as their links.. How can I implement the same? any ideas?

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    • Maybe you’re confused. You won’t get backlinks from google or yahoo pages unless you’re approved on google /yahoo news. From yahoo, you can also get backlinks from yahoo answers. FB links are no follow so they pass now Page Rank juice.

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  216. Hello
    I want to increase my website on the top of the Google first rank , i make more efforts but it does’t work.
    Can you suggest me a best technique for this.
    Thanks for sharing.
    For more details , please visit on this link.
    jonsonsglobal.com/
    Thanks.

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    • Hello. Have a look at the guide I have for my email subscribers. There’s good info there to start 🙂

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  217. Hi, Do you use your exact post link instead of using the homepage link while commenting? Is it good practice? What do you think?

    Thanks for the case study, it’s amazing!

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  218. Hello Servando ,
    Your Article Is realy Intersted. So Please tell me best way to get do follow backlinks.

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    • Hello Ajay. Your best bet for high value do follow backlinks at this point is to build PR backlinks. I have a complete guide on how to do it for my subscribers 🙂

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    • Yes.
      Yu can do guest blogging or build your own links as explained in the guide form y subscribers 🙂

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  220. One simple question! How did you create those backlinks via blog comments? Did you use your own name or the Keywords in place of the names?
    Great experiment. I’ll give it a try.

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    • No, I don’t like to look that SPAMMY.
      I used blogs that have commentluv or similar systems enabled back at the time (those allow you to put a link to your blog at the end of the comment).

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  221. I noticed your blog today only. The topics are very useful especially this post help me a lot. Many of my doubts are cleared from this post. Thank you for sharing this great post.

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  222. This is a really great experiment i think i am going to try it because sometimes i build hundreds of back links with little success so maybe this will work for me.

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  223. great artical bro. backlink is powerbank of a blog.if don’t have a blog any backlink it’s not getting high rank on google.i will try to making new backlink for my new blog.thankyou very much for sharing valueable content

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  224. This is a fascinating, exhaustive and exhausting story. Thank you for sharing and for taking the trouble in writing it up in so much detail (most don’t bother publishing the winded path to success, which is one of the reasons many rookies come to think it must be easy). “All these backlinks appearing on my rank tracker are backlinks created by commenting 1 month ago or so on January/December.” – That one I don’t quite understand, though: Does backlinking via comments really benefit SEO? Mostly it leaves nofollow links in its wake. We’re told that nofollow links don’t increase PageRank. Most blogs only create nofollow links for comments. These would be useless as an SEO tool since the nofollow attribute avoids leaking PageRank. Wherever I look this mismatch between the proposed benefits of backlinking via comments and the downgrading of these backlinks by virtue of the nofollow attribute is never discussed. If there was an easy solution to the puzzle, everyone would talk about it. So I suspect that many authors are groping in the dark. In your case it seems to work astonishing well and I am wondering why.

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    • Both backlinks help. Do follow or no follow, but some of them will increase your page rank and some others only help to have a diverse anchor text link report.

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  225. Thanks for this.
    I liked it. I want to know some thing that Can i make comment on different articles of same blog for generating many backlinks to increase ranking. Will this trick will incease my ranking in google?

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    • It will help you get more backlinks and different anchor text, but it’s much better to get different backlinks from different blogs instead of the same blog within different pages.

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  226. I am new to the SEO world. I have sat around and thought about it and talked myself out of getting into blogs for years now. This year i finally decided to get into it. I really appreciate articles like yours and information that other people are providing for free on a website without spamming us.

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  227. Awesome article, you have applied wonderful tactics to rank your blog on Google.

    Please keep up updated with such type of SEO Tips, so that it can help us also

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  231. Thanks alot Servando, for a moment i thought backlinking is dead. Have to start working on quality backlinks now. Good job there.

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  233. Best this you have dicussed is that many people are not sure that backlink are not working but its not true. this is being observed in your art that it works many more for google ranking.

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  234. My forexsanity website is 6months old and I have 96 backlinks already. Many of these backlinks are coming from forex forum. Are forum links strong enough to give me page rank? How many more links do I need to get to page rank 9/10 or 2/10. Please share

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    • Forum links are good, but probably won’t pass enough link juice to rank you. Specially if they all come from the same forum.
      Since forex is a very difficult keyword, I’d say it will take a good SEO campaign for it.

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    • 3-4 backlinks from different indexes?
      Can you give me an example?

      Usually, 1 backlink from each domain should be enough. It’s better to have backlinks from more domains instead of multiple backlinks from the same domain.

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  236. Would it be safer to maybe make 5 links to different articles then to make them all go to your domain each day? I don’t want to get the boot by Google!

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  237. How many back links do i need?
    before reading this article this question is bomb in my head but now my headache is gone.Thank you for really awesome information. 🙂

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  238. Thanks for the article. This helped me a lot, and I especially agree on the dofollow backlinks. Hard to come by though.

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      • Hello grace.
        It depends on que competition and the quality backlinks.

        If you’re building low authority and totally unrelated backlinks, you might need hundreds or even thousands.
        But a few quality backlinks can do the trick as long as they’re relevant.

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  240. I agree acklinks should be from quality pages but does it matter that a backlink shoud be a dofollow one and nofollow links are of no help.

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    • My 6 months results have been updated and you cna find the link to the article at the beginning of this one 🙂

      Regards!

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  242. Hello Mr. Silva , Your Article was very nice. I am totally new to this SEO world , So I am going to ask you many questions only if you don’t mind.
    Here goes my questions.

    1. How to get quality of Backlinks.
    2. How to increase the ranking for a particular keyword.

    These are the questions which are in my mind from a long time. Hope you will reply me and help me in getting a good knowledge of SEO.

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    • Hello there.
      1. Quality backlinks means they’re relevant baacklinks from old/stablished websites that have tons of articles, traffic and Page Rank/Domain Authority. So, there more you get of those, the better.
      2. You need to do a lot of things including backlinks, Social media signals, getting traffic and in page SEO.

      It’s kind of difficult to explain it here, but have a look at my SEO/Marketing guide to start right away!

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      • How many backlinks are safer to be made each day/week ? If I create 8-10 backlinks per day, would it be a safe job so that Google doesn’t consider it as spamming ? Thanks for the nice article.

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  243. Hey Servando,
    I was started health blog one year ago. But I have not received enough traffic for my blog. How to build back links for my health blog? Help me

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    • Hello Joseph.
      Have you tried creating articles in other places, guest posting, article submissions or even comments on other blogs?
      You should subscribe to my newsletter because it will help you with backlinking strategies 🙂

      Reply

  244. Great Article. Can you help me as to where can i make quality back-links? I would really appreciate the help.

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    • Hello Pawan.
      There’s a free guide for my subscribers on how to build high PR backlinks, if you’re interested on it 🙂

      Reply

  245. Hi,
    I must say your case study is quite an elaborate example for helping out new bloggers like me. When I started I had a very narrow view of backlinks. Looking at your weekly log, it really threw some insights on the relationship between the backlinks and the search engines. And finally the comments were helpful as well. Thanks for clearing things up about the backlinks.

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    • Hello Nitish.
      I’ve come to the idea that case studies are basically the most useful articles for starters and experts.
      I’m glad it helped you.

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  247. Hi, thanks for the informative post, I was wondering if you still use market samerai, and is it still an effective and accurate tool for niche and market research? Can you recommend me another tool if MS is no longer effective.

    I would want to eventually be able to research why sites rank on page one, why is that specific market so hot (i want to validate the hot trends), what tools besides market samerai will help me do the job?

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    • Hello Alex.
      Yes, I still use Market Samurai and it’s very effective even if it’s a little slow.
      I haven’t tried lots of good tools, but I do know that Longtail pro is good.

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  249. Hi Servando Silva, many thanks for your great article. Do you think paid backlinks will hurt our website? So many company offer us to buy backlinks and i think it is an easy way to get backlinks

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    • Paid backlinks are seen as manipulation for Google. Honestly, it all depends on if you leave a footprint or not.
      Cheap, bad quality backlinks are probably going to hurt your rank in the mid-long run. Quality backlinks are fine, but you need to check your anchor text ratio and make them natural.

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      • Paid backlinks are a bad idea. google will delist a site if they see this happening. Not a good idea for sure.

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        • Actually. All backlinks are a “bad idea” for Google at this moment.
          Or at least that’s what Google says.

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          • Really? See I thought backlinks were still important for SEO? There is conflicting data on this around the web though, you know?

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            • They are. Backlinks are still very important.
              That’s why Google doesn’t like how people get backlinks anymore. No matter if they are paid, guest posts or natural links. You can get penalized anyway.

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              • Hi, Servando,

                That makes sense. From what I am reading, Google is really paying a lot of attention to user experience and social mentions (i.e. someone mentioning you on Google+.

                I have found that Google+ is a HUGE way to help with getting traffic and SEO. The key is being interactive on the platform and doing so consistently.

                This is a great topic – so glad you brought all of this up!

  250. hi thank you for such an informative post. i love to read posts which are based on experience. i want to ask you which tool you used to check the position of your post on different search engines. I’ll be wating for your answer

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  252. Hi Servando,
    don’t u think creating direct backlinks to your main URL without any tiers downward will hurt in long run?

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    • Hello Emily.
      For low quality and high volume backlinks, yes, they could hurt.
      But high quality or PR backlinks shouldn’t be a problem. They are normally the minority.

      Reply

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