Arranging Link Popularity Campaign before site launch

Is quantity more important than relevance

[JamaicanFood]

Hello,

I need to know something my website is being built I personally have hired an SEO company but have studied in depth and the concensus is apparently that link building is the most fundamental aspect of SEO.

The site goes live in May 2005 and I want to buy links to give my site the added edge of not actually submitting but allowing crawlers to locate the site during the first 90 Day period.

Then I would submit to the Yahoos and Inktomi etc and start the PPC campaign.

But is quantity more important than related links.

Little help here.

JamaicanFood

[edited by: martinibuster at 6:35 pm (utc) on Jan. 12, 2005]
[edit reason] Soliciting links is against the forum charter. Thanks for understanding. [/edit]

[martinibuster]

Hi,
Please let's not discuss specific companies, nor endorse or condemn websites by name. Discussion of techniques and the merits or negatives of link buying are perfectly fine, that's what this forum is all about.

Thanks.
:)

The importance of quantity versus quality is a debate without a satisfying answer. Some people even take the middle ground that it's a combination of quantity and quality.

Buying links can be as simple as buying a directory listing at Yahoo to bribing fifteen year old bloggers to consulting with a text link broker. Within those parameters there are differing levels of relevance.

How relevant is a directory link?
How relevant is a golf shopping site to a furniture shopping site?
Tough questions, imo.

[JamaicanFood]

Why does it sound like blogging is either illegal or unethical here I was told by an SEO that it was ok to blog, of course that is in my small island of JA.

So whats the deal doesn't blogging factor in?

[chrisnrae]

I don't think anyone is speaking of blogging itself in reference to links. What is being discussed when you hear blogging used in a linking conversation is likely blogspam, buying ROS links on a blog(s) and the like, not the actual process of blogging in and of itself.

As for quantity vs. relevance. I'm a believer in as much relevance as possible if you want the site to last the test of time - not because I think it matters to the current state of search, but because I think relevance could come into play in the future. For now, quantity is what I'm seeing work - regardless of relevance.

Though, exchanging links with anyone and everyone on a site you want to get and keep ranks for a long time probably isn't the smartest thing to do. And then again, as MB pointed out - no one can truly "define" relevance. It's easy to spot total irrelevance, but the vice versa has a lot of gray area.