How Many Backlinks Do You Need?
When it comes to link building there is no way to overemphasize the importance of backlinks. It is pretty much common knowledge that you need them. Different search engine optimization experts will put varying degrees of emphasis on them, but all SEOs pretty much agree that they are important. How important are they? Do you need thousands? Hundreds? How many is enough?
There’s no easy answer to the how much is enough question. It depends on a lot of factors, primarily the competitive nature of your niche. One keyword in a very competitive niche may require tens or hundreds of thousands of thousands of backlinks just to make a dent, and a small one at that, in the armor of your competition. Why bother beating your head against a stone wall?
Instead, go for the smaller, less competitive keywords first. The ones that won’t require an army of link builders to spread artillery all over kingdom come just to sound like the squeak of a mouse. If you target those less competitive key phrases and get respectable traffic from those, once you capture the top of the search engine rankings for the long tail phrases, you’ll start to see yourself climb for the more generic phrases within your niche. But it takes time. And patience.
How many backlinks does it take to succeed? One more than you had yesterday. Just keep plugging away, one link at a time, until you win.
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Well.. never will be enoght… so… let’s help other people to link to your web site without any thing… they just do it… I’m creating some widgets and banners… so… the just copy and past in their web site…
I agree with this without a question. To show how much I agree, i’m putting a link here to help with the backlinks to my site for identification badges and ID cards.
Thanks Allen for the comment and for reading!
The amount of backlinks needed to rank are completely dependant on how much content you have, where the backlinks lead back to, the quality of the backlinks (not quantity), and the amount of links on the page. I don’t see why so many people are making backlinks so they can get “high PR”, PR has no meaning. It’s useless.
Hi Anime,
Thanks for reading, this is very true…PR is not that good of a measurement these days…
The way I find out how many backlinks I need is this:
I do a Google search on the desired term and find out how many backlinks the number 10 website on the first page has. I figure that I’ll need at least that number to make the first page. Also, I try to get at least 3 backlinks a day. That comes up to nearly a hundred a month. Although it does get frustrating when I see that some of my competitors have millions of backlinks.
I didn’t know if it went through, just wanted to say Great Info on Backlinks!