How Many Backlinks Are Enough?
This blog entry was posted on July 14, 2010.
If you have read anything about search engine optimization (SEO), you have come across the term backlinks. These are incoming links from other web pages to your web pages. A good number of quality backlinks signals the search engines that your website is important enough to be rewarded with a top ranking. Backlinks are an important building block of the SEO process.
There are 5 facets to look at to determine if your website has enough backlinks.
- Quantity: You can measure the sheer number of backlinks using a tool like Yahoo Site Explorer. A larger number of backlinks in general is better for your website.
- Quality: How important is each of these backlinks? Look at the PageRank (PR) of each inbound link. You want at least some of these backlinks to be high PR backlinks.
- Relevance: How relevant is the page linking to your site to your topic? You links from other web pages that are closely related to your subject.
- Anchor Text: This is the clickable text in the hyperlink. It is sometimes called the link text. You would want keywords to be used in the anchor text rather than “click here.”
- Variety: You want your backlinks to come from as many different sources as possible. This would include blogs, web directories, articles, press releases, social book marks, etc.
SEOmoz has a free tool that allows you to measure the success of your backlinking called Open Site Explorer. Pay attention to both Page Authority and Domain Authority to see if your website has enough backlinks.
Hint: Compare the number one rated site for your target phrase against your website.
Click here for a free analysis of your website’s backlinking.
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These backlinks are really important in SEO and you should know how many backlinks are to be submitted to your site
Comment by Blog Directory — July 14, 2010 @ 2:47 am
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Comment by Conference Services — July 14, 2010 @ 3:56 am
Thanks for sharing! Am still trying to get more backlinks for my site.
Comment by Marilyn — July 14, 2010 @ 10:12 am
Marilyn,
I recommend getting as many different types of links as possible. Develop a well balanced portfolio of links as discussed in #5 above.
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Comment by Brian — July 16, 2010 @ 5:51 am
Keep a close eye on your Google Webmaster account to see which links Google files as linking to you.
Social networking does work on diferent levels, consider it as a form of site promotion (if you get it right!)
Comment by Dave B — July 30, 2010 @ 1:37 pm
It is very simple and great blog. I like it.
Comment by SEO Text For Web Pages — January 11, 2011 @ 2:30 am
The biggest SEO problem is the client; no matter how often you tell them, very few take notice of the fact that the only way up is a good backlinks strategy. Doesn’t matter if you’ve given them a beautiful site, if no-one sees it! Too many companies like to do it on the cheap!
Comment by Kieren — May 11, 2011 @ 12:53 am
Back links are a difficult task without publishing content
Comment by Web Designer — July 21, 2011 @ 7:11 pm