phrail
Joined: Jan 09, 2008
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Posted: 01/31/2008 10:08 am
How many backlinks do you guys think is a lot? I mean, at what amount do you guys go "oh wow, I have a lot of backlinks!". I know when it comes to backlinks it's QUALITY over QUANTITY. I was just wondering what you guys think what a high amount is. 
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 01/31/2008 11:19 am
Tough one to nail down - it depends on the site and it's topic and age, really.
I start feeling happy when I'm into 4 figures, but that's just me on my own small sites - others will have varying opinions...
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kynduvme
Joined: Apr 18, 2001
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Posted: 01/31/2008 11:27 am
In my most competetive industry, top ranking sites have between 50 and 4,000 backlinks. It just reinforces that quality is more important that quantity when it comes to backlnking
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bhartzer
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Posted: 01/31/2008 12:25 pm
How many backlinks do you guys think is a lot?
More than your competitor.
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g1smd
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Posted: 01/31/2008 12:27 pm
I have beaten out most of the competion with 50 very high quality links in the past... when stuff with 10 000 very low quality links has been relegated to page 2.
It really depends. Quality beats quantity most of the time. Quantity can sometimes win, but if the quality isn't there, then long-term that strategy does fail in the end.
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phrail
Joined: Jan 09, 2008
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Posted: 01/31/2008 12:30 pm
I have beaten out most of the competion with 50 very high quality links in the past... when stuff with 10 000 very low quality links has been relegated to page 2.
It really depends. Quality beats quantity most of the time. Quantity can sometimes win, but if the quality isn't there, then long-term that strategy does fail in the end.
Yeah we are actually getting beat by a company in our niche and I believe they have around 65ish backlinks. Most of them are from directories. We have quite a bit of backlinks but they are all from our clients so we have a bit of fixing up to do.
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kynduvme
Joined: Apr 18, 2001
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Posted: 01/31/2008 12:52 pm
I have a couple guys beating me in rankings whos back links are obviously paid links numbering in the thousands and another one obviously used an auto blog commentor, Im hoping google will clean out that trash and show some respect to my legit links and SEO, but im not holding my breath
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beth_lk
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Posted: 01/31/2008 01:08 pm
Chiming in here - same subject - different question.
Do you list your links mostly on one page or one section? Such as link page click here...... etc. ?
I recently read that making a specific link page/section is frowned upon?
Verses scattering links through out your site?
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kynduvme
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Posted: 01/31/2008 01:24 pm
I have also heard murmers about that, but I have not substantiated it. A link or resource page is quite common, so long as you arent abusing it by haveing unrelated links numbering in the thousands.
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phrail
Joined: Jan 09, 2008
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Posted: 01/31/2008 02:09 pm
Well, since we are a web design firm, our clients allow us to post our link in their footer so it shows on pretty much every single page. However, I don't know how that is affecting us in terms of quality links.
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kynduvme
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Posted: 01/31/2008 02:12 pm
that would be fine i would imagine. I have seen other webdesign comapnys do that with no negetive reprecussions, if anything it has helped them.
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animated3d
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Posted: 01/31/2008 06:55 pm
yes quality beats quantity and it depends of the website, a 100 backlinks can be considereda lot for a small website with not much traffic.
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beth_lk
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Posted: 02/01/2008 11:42 am
I agree with the footer thought
As well as the quality verse quantity info.
I was asking more in terms of links on one page/section in general ?
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kynduvme
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Posted: 02/01/2008 02:02 pm
i wouldn't have more tahn 30 - 50 on one page.
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beth_lk
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Posted: 02/01/2008 05:24 pm
Thanks Kynduvme
I know there is a fine line between posting links and being a link farm - so I was looking for specifics, even with using quality sites the fine line remains.
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