Hi, this is only my second post but I’ve been reading this forum for over a year now.
I noticed every other post people suggest to build links to get better SERPs, and being the type of people that go to forums and desperately ask for help, it’s logical to assume many go on spastic periods of link buying.
But is this really required?
I have 9 websites on my network (no names will be mentioned, sorry) all of them were built from scratch without any backlink from anyone, just content, content, content, and of course server stability and ‘ageing’.
They all get good traffic in a very competitive niche now, with the smallest getting 27k people per day (and for those who still value the PageRank the highest of them is 3 and most are 0).
I know this won’t work for everyone, and every example as an anti example in the word of SEO, but seriously people get a grip and stop being obsessed with buying links and initiating in link exchanges, just focus on your website and your visitors (and Googlebot of course ) and the results will come.
I know many won’t believe this but I am speaking from years and years of trial and error (which translates to penalties, bans and all kinds of things you don’t wanna see) link building is really not that important as long as Googlebot can find your content just fine.
So go out there, submit your XMLs and update your site as much as possible, and you’ll do OK without backlinks.
Google Webmaster Tools shows I have a very small amount of backlinks even after years, because I admit my content isn’t the best around in the niche, but hey! at least Google likes it, so basically I’ve minimal amount of links but lots of sitemap submitting (Which will keep the bot at your pages 24/7).
So If you’re about to get involved in all type of link buying / trading etc.. read and think carefully before you do, I’e done it in the past in some of my older sites, and the it really didn’t to affect anything,. In fact, there’s an increased chance you will get penalized for it, and if not an even greater chance that your SEO success will be based on a ‘bubble’ of links instead of natural Goolgle ‘Love’…
Hope this helps someone save 200$.
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