How many links do I need?

[KATTY]

Does anyone know how to find out how many links you need to get in Top of SERPs?
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[beamup]

Maybe around 1000 links to get top 10..

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[ericajoieake]

you have to provide more than the backlinks of the current rank no.1 website in your category.

[iceshards]

Don't get about just quantity links even you have small amount of links but it is a quality links surely you will be on SERPs. Try to focus to gather quality and relevant links.

[04USEO]

Yeah around 1000 Links you have to get in order to get your site in top 10.

[riza68]

As many as you can.. There are a lot of different ways to get backlinks to your website, including:

Articles - submit articles to the article directory and the resource box will contain a link to your website a free backlink!

Directory entries - every niche will have at least several hundred directories of sites that are relevant to that niche. Get yourself listed in all of these, and you have lots of free backlinks!

3 way link exchange - unlike traditional reciprocal link exchanges where two sites point to each other, this is a slightly more cunning way which is meant to fool the search engines. It does mean one of the link partners needs two websites though. Website A links to Website B which links to Website C. Person A owns Websites A and C and Person B owns Website B. To the search engines, these appear as one way links (at the moment! There is talk of the search engines wising up to this).

Forums - posting in forums is yet another method of getting your link seen. If you participate in the forum discussion then usually you can have a link to your site in your signature file. Remember though that you must add value and not just blatantly promote your website or post to get your signature file shown as this will result in bad will towards you and eventual blacklisting and banning.

Blogs - putting comments on blogs is another way to get backlinks. However, be aware that if you are not adding value with your comment it may well be considered spam and then deleted and blacklisted. So dont just post great entry, writing something that is useful and appropriate.

Backlinks are surprisingly easy for you to acquire with a little bit of work. If you don't want to do the work yourself then you can very easily hire someone who will do it on your behalf, though make sure they will be ethical about it!

With backlinks you can boost your search engine rankings and get yourself free traffic, which means free money when they buy your product!
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[alemcherry]

[quote=KATTY;4778]Does anyone know how to find out how many links you need to get in Top of SERPs?
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Silly question!

It depends on the keywodds you are targetting. Obviously you need more than your competition.

More than just the number, the quality of the link matters. So doesn other factors like the age of domain and on page factors.

[juliensimon]

Backlinks will not provide you with a position in the top 10 if it is the only part of your SEO strategy. You will need more than that (well, depending on how competitive is your niche). To me, Links and proper content is the key. Bots don't weight meta tags as much as they used to.

You should submit your site to the main search engines:
Google: you can't submit your site for google.
Yahoo: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/site/help/webmasters#crawl_site
MSN: http://beta.search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx

and also to some social bookmark like Digg or del.icio.us.

Local business listing is also a great way to generate quality traffic:
Google (you will need a gmail account): https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com% 2Flocal%2Fadd%2FbusinessCenter%3Fgl%3DUS%26hl%3Den -US&service=lbc&hl=en-US&gl=US
Look for more local directories depending on where you are.

hope this helps.

Julien
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[siegle42]

You can be on top of SERP's even if you don't many backlinks to your website. Search engine "crawlers"or "spiders" find the most relevant content and get listed on top.
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