Do you think Google is stupid? Well, this may come as a surprise to anyone, and I mean ANYONE who’s building backlinks to their sites.
Let’s say you have a brand new site. You make a few post…3 to be exact.
Next you jump into your favorite article submission software like AMR and start shooting 100 backlinks to your site every day.
But uh… who’s linking to your site so much.. I mean.. if we look here at your traffic, you’re averaging 7 visitors per week, 3 of which are you. So… obviously you’re out there gaming the system right. There really is no other way around it.
So the question is, do you think search engines aren’t “smart enough” to pick up on this?
Well, the bad news is that they’re hip to the game.
That’s why a traffic building phase is always more important than a backlink phase when you first get a site started.
Sure you’ll be getting backlinks from article directories, video sites and bunch of others, but then when your site is brand new, instead of continuing to bombard your main page with backlinks…backlink your backlinks to make them stronger.
Never backlink a site with more links than it’s getting visitors. It throws up a huge easy to spot red flag.
Just start off slow, and focus on getting some traffic rolling in, and backlinking your backlinks. Your site will look like it’s getting natural backlinks, and be more likely to be put at the top than a site that is getting spammed hundreds or thousands of links per day.
4 Comments
Hey There,
I appreciate what you’re saying, but Google doesn’t know how many visitors you’re getting unless you have Google Analytics installed. Although this might be a moot point if you want to measure you’re website metrics, which is something you should be doing. For this you need Google Analytics, in which case your post may be valid.
Jack
Great point Jack. I use analytics on all my sites, and since I’ve started using this technique I’ve known my sites get ranked a little faster (1-2 months).
But if you don’t use analytics, it might not be as big of an issue.
Also, the sites that I just started off sending a lot of links to did get ranked as well. But in my experience, it’s been easier in the long run to start off slow, and focus first on building the quality of your backlinks.
SEO is so touchy though, because no one really knows 100% for sure… we just know what works for us. And even then there’s a method for every grain of sand on the east coast.
Hey, I saw your PDF on the warrior forum and decided to check your blog out. You have some good tips here so I will definitely be subscribing to your RSS. I am always looking for people who actually know what they are talking about and share NEW tips (not just rehashed info) I am guilty of posting a few articles and then smashing the site with links, haha. I get to impatient!It works half the time
yeah, backlinks should always come after the content, it is unwise to build hundreds of backlink when you have nothing in your website yet. Google is running by the persons and bots much intelligent than us, so it is not hard for them to recognize the unusual.