Why Bother with Link Development

When Competition has Massive Advantage?

[karnb]

was going to setup a website , which i think could do really well as the keywords generate a million searches per month according to overture

but thanks to this site i checked linkdomain and the top google sites have 15 - 20 k backlinks

how feasible is it for me to get on the first page, at 10 links per day, it will take over five years and presumably they wont stand still

anyone any advice

[greatclare]

Good point and question, I'm averaging less than 0.5 links a day.

[martinibuster]

Quantity of links are only part of the story. I (and my clients) regularly outrank older established sites that have far more backlinks.

Don't lose heart.
;)

[mack]

I think the "snowball effect" is a pretty good term for what can happen.

At the start most of not all of the links you get are requested. Through time you start to rank better. When this happens more people notice your site and many will link without being requested. As your rank increases more and more peopel will link to you.

Mack.

[pageoneresults]

5 high quality links may far outweigh 500 low quality links. Think about the quality in this instance, not the quantity.

[Event_King]

I had 25'000ish links pointing towards my site on an old domain. If I remember correctly things start to happen when you reach around the 5'000 links mark. People will link to you without your knowledge, it's not something you can control and you'll pick up some right dogs, but also some blinding links can come of it. I agree, it's a time thing - so don't sweat it.

Google pagerank has so much to do with the links you get.

Even when I had 20'000 + links, I never experienced the 'snowball' effect, so I can only assume 20'000 links weren't enough for this to happen.

One thing I'd advise is ensure you have a very, easy to remember domain name, and never, ever do what I did - and change domains. If you do, your backlinks will disappear so fast you won't know what hit you. And you'll have to quickly recontact everyone that linked to you, to restore what's lost.

Yikes that's no fun.

[sugarrae]

That's like giving up before you even get yourself in the ring. Wars nor women have ever been won with that stance. ;-)

Give yourself and edge and go after quality - make yourself different and make sure that you build a *fantastic* site or don't bother building one at all.

[karnb]

ok thanks for advice

[edited by: martinibuster at 9:14 pm (utc) on Nov. 23, 2005]
[edit reason] Off topic. Questions about Search Engine Promotion are best posted in SEP. Thanks. [/edit]

[wolfadeus]

As others said before, quality goes beyond quantity; and keep an eye on the content: if you have identified your key competitors, this can be the first step to finding your niche.

[incrediBILL]

A few really good links and better page optimization than the SERP incumbents can get you on the SERPS and I'm finding RSS feeds for any type of site is a killer way to get links all over the place with very little effort thanks to all the greedy aggregator sites out there.

Doesn't have to be a blog either to use this technique.

[amol_v_naik]

put more efforts for getting quality links, quantity dosen't matters.