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Birthed a site - how long until backlinking?

by Big Squid
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Let's say I gave birth today to a new born site...

How long should I wait until I start adding backlinks (maybe 5-10 a day)?
#backlinking #birthed #long #site
  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    If you're in one of the same niches as me I recommend waiting at least a month, maybe two, and only getting 1 or 2 links a week. That way you'll be 'safe'.

    But seriously, as long as you aren't doing massive link spamming, get as many as you can as fast as you can with a preference toward getting higher value links.
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    • Profile picture of the author Azfi
      You can start immediately. Just make sure you do natural growth of backlinks
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      • Profile picture of the author Big Squid
        Originally Posted by Azfi View Post

        You can start immediately. Just make sure you do natural growth of backlinks

        What would you consider "natural"?

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    • Profile picture of the author Big Squid
      Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

      If you're in one of the same niches as me I recommend waiting at least a month, maybe two, and only getting 1 or 2 links a week. That way you'll be 'safe'.

      But seriously, as long as you aren't doing massive link spamming, get as many as you can as fast as you can with a preference toward getting higher value links.
      Yeah, maybe I should just wait and see if my site build skills are so grand, that links just want to attach themselves to me???


      Thanks for the reply...!
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  • Profile picture of the author TrafficMystic
    wait 4 weeks before starting any aggressive back linking.. 20-30 a day for the first 4 weeks then start to increase it.
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Hi Avid,

      I'm with bgmacaw, the longer you wait the better it is for us. I recommend that you wait at least 2 years, you just can't be too safe you know.

      Seriously, the only way you can do it too soon is to start building links to pages that don't yet exist. And the only reason you would ever want to moderate your link building is if you are doing nothing but spam and you are trying to keep a low profile to avoid detection. Your spamming will almost always get detected and devalued eventually, so going slow doesn't benefit you all that much.

      Alternatively you can build meritorious links and there would never be a reason to moderate that type of link building. Meritorious link building is simply following the principal of "attribution in exchange for contribution" (© Don Burk - All Rights Reserved).
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    • Profile picture of the author Big Squid
      Originally Posted by TrafficMystic View Post

      wait 4 weeks before starting any aggressive back linking.. 20-30 a day for the first 4 weeks then start to increase it.


      Okay, so for clarification (because I'm a green-horn here) 20-30 is considered non-aggressive?
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      • Profile picture of the author TrafficMystic
        Originally Posted by Avid Reader View Post

        Okay, so for clarification (because I'm a green-horn here) 20-30 is considered non-aggressive?
        yes. This is the strategy I use for my own and clients new sites.

        If you don't feel comfortable with that you can do less with around 10-15 a day.

        regards

        Steve
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        • Profile picture of the author netmatrix
          Also, make sure to diversify your link building.
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          • Profile picture of the author paulgl
            Natural? Aggressive? Diversify?

            Who makes this stuff up????

            You need to build as many quality backlinks as quickly
            as you can. Period.

            There is no maximum or wait time. The only people who talk
            about such things are people who like linkfarms, etc., then
            complain about getting de-indexed or something.

            You cannot build enough quality backlinks quick enough.

            Paul
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            • Profile picture of the author Big Squid
              I'd like to thank everyone for their input.

              It seems I'm in need of a big education when it comes to backlinks. I'm searching this forum, but since you all seem like knowledgeable people, would you all be willing to recommend any basic resources?

              Thanks in advance...
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  • Profile picture of the author maverick8
    get as many as you can of high valued links. Links with good authority: such as High PR and a lot of links linking to the site your getting links from etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    Start it slow and build it up. Women like it that way as well.... ;-)
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    • Profile picture of the author Big Squid
      Originally Posted by jazbo View Post

      Start it slow and build it up. Women like it that way as well.... ;-)

      Slow huh? That may explain some things...
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    Originally Posted by Avid Reader View Post

    Let's say I gave birth today to a new born site...

    How long should I wait until I start adding backlinks (maybe 5-10 a day)?
    I'm surprised no one said this before but the answer depends entirely on what niche you are in. If you have located some low competition keywords you may never have to do "agressive backlinking". Seriously some sites rank with relatively few backlinks for certain keywords. I had one two months back that took just 40 high quality backlinks to get on the front page. There are plenty of sites that rank for low competition keywords with a few hundred backlinks. If you are new then PLEASE - skip all the backlinking advice and get some good keyword research done first.
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