Directories backlinks doubt, will Google trust my site more?

[serenoo]

My website is new. I created it on Dec 2014. I add about one or two pages every week. So no many pages. It has no backlinks. Now when I add a page it ranks from 10th to 20th for its main keyword. The kewyord (composed by several words) I chose is very rare with no competitors. My opinion is that Google does not 100% trust of me cause I am new and I have 0 backlinks.
If I add about 5 or 6 backlinks from directories, then Google could trust more of me?
I will rarely get natural backlinks cause I am working in a field where nobody add a link to you cause we are all competitors.
I know I do not have to think about backlinks and I have to create pages for users, but I am talking about a few links to say Google it can trust of me.
Should I do that?

[FranticFish]

I might not be the best to reply as my experience is in the field of SMEs.

More and more I think that Google applies niche-specific knowledge to a SERP.

In my experience the established and (perceived as) quality web directories provide a (sometimes significant) boost to a new site. How much yours will get will depend on how many of your competitors share that link profile.

[mrengine]

Quality web directories is the key, and there are not many of them and they typically cost $50 - $300 for a listing. If you intend on getting listed in some of the many free and low quality web directories, it may do more harm then good. It would be better to focus on expanding your content and building authority if your budget is tight.

[Hoople]

I'm going to guess you have a personal profile somewhere that you might want to link out to the new site. If Google knows of it and others are linked to it all the better :-)

Create a sitemap and upload it to Google and Bing. I know, old school but there is some value. If you are a brick and mortar (you sell stuff in a shop to the public) look local....town website, business associations, etc.

Think hard about where your site 'fits' in the web world. An idea will come to you for where to find a link source.

Search for your website with a keyword or two you consider great fits for your site. What else comes up? Don't rule out others personal profiles or fan groups of your widgets. With no links you have to 'join your leaf to some tree' so to speak.

[eek2121]

Don't worry about listing your site anywhere. Keep adding unique, quality content. Beyond that, the single most important thing you can do is add a sitemap. Do this and within a few months you will be doing great. I did exactly that and several years later I'm dominating my niche even though one of my competitors is an 800 lb gorilla. Never once did I reach out to any third party for links. To this day you can count my dofollow back links on 2 hands (most people use nofollow these days). I've built my site up into something amazing by writing awesome content on a regular basis. I make a decent amount of cash via adsense and I enjoy a wonderful community of users.

[serenoo]

Thank you for your help.
So to get my website stronger I need good quality directories and to penalize my opponents I need to submit their websites into low quality directories. :-)
I couldn't imagine that sitemaps could help a lot. Just studied a little the sitemaps that Google likes and I have a sitemap question:
Is important to have the last update date <lastmod> for the urls? Or can I skip it by creating a simple list of links?

I have a CMS where it is hard to create and manage on the fly a sitemap everytime there is an update (new page or a page update), so for only 2 pages a week I could manage a sitemap.xml manually by myself, but if the last update date <lastmod> for the urls is important, then I will have to find a solution.

[lucy24]

Is important to have the last update date <lastmod> for the urls?

In the short term, no, because the search engine is not going to take your unsupported word for it. Same goes for similar tags such as <changefreq> (or, er, whatever it's called). If they've been visiting your site on a regular basis for quite a while and have noticed that the information in your sitemap is accurate, then maybe.

<lastmod> specifically should not be that big a deal because the assorted Googlebots tend to send the If-Modified-Since header (where each UA sets its own date). So even if they don't crawl a page all that often, they'll request it plenty of times just to check.

(It is pure, unrelated coincidence that within the last week or so, I got curious about this header and took a closer look at some randomly selected days to figure out the pattern.)

[seoskunk]

For dynamic sites as most people have <lastmod> is irrelevent as the site is updated with each new post. I don't think <lastmod> is a factor anymore. I spent some time faking one for dynamic site only to find it was ignored anyway