What is a good Amount of links going to your Pages?

[MidwestMerchant]

Hey Everyone..I have been alot of link exchanges and directory listings, as well as search engine submitting. I know that link popularity is a good step in getting higher rankings, and im curious what most people in here consider a good amount of links leading back to your site. I dont expect exact numbers but im curious, are we talking in the hundreds? in the thousands?..What does everyone consider a good amount of sites to have with your link on them? Thanks in advance

[Craig_F]

> good amount of sites to have with your link on them?

1 more than my competition :)

[Jack_Frost]

VERY dependent on the competitive nature of the term. We are, however, seeing that a few good links (high PR, on topic, one way links, from pages without an extensive number of outbounds) are worth more than dozens of crappy reciprocal links.

[MidwestMerchant]

thanks for the reply jack frost..i know to start looking for higher ranked, more on-topic sites to trade URLs with.

[neuron]

This is totally dependent on the competition, on how many links they have, the quality of their links, and how link adept they are.

I personally believe in overkill, in using overwhelming power to beat the competition.

If you are ranked #1, getting more links isn't going to get you ranked any higher, but it can discourage the competition and make them content to be #2.

This is actually how I got into doing SEO full-time. I had a site that I got a couple of hundred links for and was ranked #2 and #3 for my best keyterms. Then one day a site comes out of nowhere and goes to #1 for both. I was okay with that, the guy had more than 1000 links pointing at his site, and remembering the total headache it was to achieve just a couple of hundred links, I didn't want to compete with this guy, I was still getting good traffic, just not #1 traffic.

However, then the guy made a mistake. He started sending me emails telling me I could pay him to teach me how to be #1. Pure spam, out of the blue. You ever see those cartoons where there's steam coming out of a charater's ears? Well, that was me. One little email and my whole career path changes. The power of spam. Anyway, the rest is history, and so is he.

Moral of the story: get more links than the other guy, and never stop.

[t2dman]

I totally agree that number one is not enough. You need to cement your position in. No problems on my main terms, but ...

I am starting to see that for some of my pages with competitive terms that I used to be first for, I am now getting 2,3,4th on Google. I then do a sitewide footer for that specific page (same domain) and I seem to go lower, it certainly doesn't get me higher.

I have a forum where I have a signature link to a clients site (say 2000 links). I also have several pages on the forum seo'ed for his terms. His pages don't show on Google, my seo'ed pages are 1st/2nd page of Google for their competitive terms.

The clients site does not link back to my forum.

Google seems to be not only devaluing the power of multi links per site, but actually lowering those sites linked to.

Does anyone have any of their own evidence to support what I have observed. I have started to remove links, but before I totally remove them, I'm keen on some feedback

"What is a good amount of links going to my/my clients pages"

[bts111]

Do not stop.

I have one page that is ranked 1st for a very competitive search term.

The page pays my rent every month and I am not living in a caravan.

I will never be beaten on this key phrase.

Once again, do not stop ; )

[Mark_A]

Fully agree with the line of this thread ...

its not a question of how many is good

rather

its a question that this is an area of competition

[David Bruning]

What about those pages that are directories of related sites?

50+ linkes per page, PR0, looks like crap, BUT I get 5 or requests to link with them a day.....

I usually avoid them, but curious, others take those links?:

[Crush]

Moral of the story: get more links than the other guy, and never stop.

Yep

[twob2b]

my link exchange page listed 20 links per page.
What do you guys think about this?