Comments on: Settle Your Rankings With Consistent Link Building

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:21:25 +0000

Hi Simon,

Rankings are terrible to track at the minute, the constant switch between local search and real time links is making most ranking tools redundant. Exactly what Google wants.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:18:16 +0000

My website is currently jumping from Number 10 Number 40 in hours! Not sure if this is usual or not for a new domain / site. I have also noticed that it ranks differently on Firefox than IE?

By: cheap bathroom suites

cheap bathroom suites — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:52:42 +0000

I dont think the timescale has much to do with things but quality def is a big part it, great post!

By: SEOmarketing

SEOmarketing — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:19:54 +0000

Frequency is a big part of a link building strategy,I have noticed that steady link building activty helps a lot with Google especially. Thanks for the post.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:21:59 +0000

@notjusttaps,

Thanks for the comment

By: Notjusttaps

Notjusttaps — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:10:13 +0000

A nice article full of common sense.
Thanks for this post

By: SeoNext

SeoNext — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:57:37 +0000

What are you trying to do though? Understand the number of links means little. I have given one of my clients a PR5 site with 2,000 incoming links. One of my sites is a PR4 with under 400 links.If you’re trying to increase your status within the organic search results get rid of the idea you need 100k links and instead replace it with 100 high quality links. Even at 100 quality links you’ll do a lot better than with 100,000 spammy links.Really a nice & informative post.Thanks for sharing this post with us.Really a nice post.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:17:33 +0000

Hi Searchbrat,

Thanks for your detailed comment, much appreciated.

With regards to the ‘bulk links’, I don’t necessarily mean Google does not like them, I just feel from experience that Google favours a site more that has a continuing and even increasing flow of links coming to the page. I have had a few articles on here go viral, one was about bing SEO, it went to the top of Google for that keyword for the first few weeks of the Bing release, however as links started to slow down so did the rankings. I currently sit in 5th as it gradually drops. I also compete for the keyword ‘google seo’ I was one the first page for about 4 weeks in 7th, I am now at the top of the second page due to some viral articles about Google caffeine but I guarantee I’ll return to my position when links stop flowing to these viral articles. Google is on a search for fresh, relevant content, what better way to assess freshness by looking at how many links a page is continually generating.

One way Google can discern between buying link or spam and viral links is that the majority of viral links are targeted at a deep page of a site, not the TLD. Just my thought process.

By: searchbrat

searchbrat — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:28:13 +0000

This is defo a common thing. A lot of people go a little mental when Google does their little dance although I have seen a lot of other weird things going on. I had a particular site that ranked really well for a number of keywords. Suddenly one of the keywords was outed from the index and all other remained. I am pretty sure its google putting a dampener on that keyword because it had too many external links with that exact anchor text pointing at it.
The only thing I would disagree with slightly (and have done with other people in the industry) is that Google looks negatively on too many links being built in to quick a time. If you think of blogs or any site that has news worthy stories, they can get thousands of links in days for the right story. This may happen again and again, I am not sure Google will actively try to isolate these cases with a site who may be mass link building …

Anyhow, I have waffled enough !!

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:10:37 +0000

@Peter,

Thank you and thanks for reading and commenting