Wolfy

you could be a TINY bit more vague



Here's the thing, though.... This question is a hell of a lot more compplicated than a simple number.

Google doesn't re-index the entire internet every day. It's a process of crawling that takes into account a lot of factors.... like PR of the site it's crawling. You can tell google to crawl your site every day, but Google is only going to crawl your site as often as it sees fit.

I have PR1 sites that are meta tagged to be crawled daily, because they get updated daily, but they only get crawled bi-monthly or so. I also have sites that are PR6 that get crawled daily with no tags at all one way or another.

Which almost brings me to my point. Say you get 100 backlinks in one day, using whatever method you happen to be using. And let's say those backlinks are all on relevant sites, but they are all on less frequently crawled sites. Let's ALSO say that, since we understand google does not crawl the entire internet every minute/hour/day checking for new links... those 100 links are discovered by google on a staggered schedule, bi-weekly or so, across a few weeks. Here's what we end up with: You actually got 100 decent backlinks in one day, but google doesn't recognize it that way. Google discovers 4 today, 12 tomorrow, 3 the next day, none the following day, 20 the day after, etcetera, over the course of three weeks.

Now... how many links is it actually safe to get per week? The question is almost impossible to answer in less than a short book.


I would say that unless you are doing tactical link spamming, you probably don't have to worry about how fast you get backlinks. If you are, then you're not going to find the answer here or another message board. The people that could actually answer the question won't, and the people that will answer the question probably don't know what they are talking about.

GL