How quickly to build links

Hi Everyone,

I have set about building links to my site but have been reading that it's not a good idea to build them to fast or make too many / day. Should I take my time and make a schedule on how many back links to create each day / week etc. The site I am trying to get position 1 is a long term project so I don't mind taking my time.

Cheers

Hi evilbiskits,

The rumour about "too many links too fast" is a myth based on misunderstanding.

There is no penalty for "building too many links too fast", the penalty comes when the links don't look natural.

Thus the potential danger in linkbuilding is only manifested if you make those links look fake... the easiest way to do that is to build tons of links quickly with identical anchors.

If you vary your anchors there's no reason why you should worry about building links too quickly.

Google representatives have said this - it's not me making it up (I've linked to the article in question from other threads here on the same subject... but I can't find the page right now)!

Ok great news, thanks for that. I do use a service that allows me to vary the anchor text and I do do this when I manually create the links.

Cheers for the advice.

ClickyB's advice is spot on. If site's got penalised for building links too quickly every time a site went viral it would incur a penalty by default. It therefore stands to reason that it is the pattern of the links which cause a problem and not the frequency.

It is almost certainly more than just 'the same anchor text' - if all your links come in a 'batch' at the bottom of a page along with 20 others, or if you have your link appearing on loads of 'blogroll' type links - but no 'editorial' links - surely that is as much of a pattern as anything?

If not... Google should employ me for ideas.

Something else worth thinking about is your competitors - IF you did start ranking well, a disgruntled competitor may look at your backlink profile... and report it.

Thanks all for great information. But I am wondering then what should be the best way to get quick links from relevant blogs?

Any ideas?

I also wanna add if could be regard as spamming if you would create too many links a day???

If you are creating links with different anchors and variety of links (no follow, dofollow, wiki) then I don't thank that google will think of spamming.

Also please note that all links are not immediately crawled, if I place 50 links in a day, it does not mean google will be aware of all 50 links on the same day. Google will take notice of the link when the page, on which the link is placed is crawled.

What do you think?

I think setting up a reasonable limit of 50 per day should keep you safe esp. given the above commenter's point about delayed crawling. But remember quantity isn't everything:

Google "my quality link may not be your quality link"

Sigh... Read my previous post

hmmmm...had the same questions and you all gave great explanations. Makes sense that changing the anchor text on your links would be the most dominant factor in being flagged as spam to search engines. makes sense to me.