right so you've just figured out the backlinks are an important part of seo and now you just find
yourself asking the seo gods how many backlinks do i need to rank of course if you've not heard
anything back from the seo gods you're probably just thinking about how you can work things out
on your own so where to begin well the question of how many backlinks a website needs in order
to rank is something everyone ends up asking themselves once they figure out how important
backlinks actually are but like all things in seo it's not something that has a clear-cut answer
that's because the answer to this question often depends on a lot of different things now some of
these things you might be able to figure out on your own but later on in this video we'll explain
some of the factors that aren't so obvious to most people anyhow the fact that there isn't a
clear-cut answer that applies to all websites can often be quite frustrating to learn however if you
know how to analyze your niche you can actually come up with a pretty precise target and in this
video we're going over some of the most powerful methods that will help you formulate a clear-cut
target for your particular chosen website or keyword so make sure you stick around to the
end of this video to learn what these methods are and once you're done watching you should have no
issues when it comes to figuring out how many backlinks you'll need to rank your website okay
so how many backlinks do you need to rank well the main answer here is that it depends on your niche
and chosen keyword now later on in this video we're going to touch on how you can analyze the
competitiveness of your niche or chosen keyword to come up with a target here but before we do that
you need to understand that if you're in a highly competitive niche you will likely be up against
other websites that have a sizable backlink profile because of this you will probably
need a large number of backlinks if you want to compete with them okay well how many backlinks do
you actually need well luckily there are tools that will help you work that out and that's
another thing we'll touch on later but and this is a big part quality isn't the end-all be-all
here and that's because in many ways you could argue that battling quality is just as important
if not more important than backlink quantity after all one amazing backlink can often be worth 10 or
even 100 average backlinks for instance check out these results we delivered for one of our clients
as you can see we managed to raise our organic traffic by roughly 150 000 visitors per month
and one of the ways we did that was by building quality backlinks but we didn't build thousands
and thousands of them we only built 19 but these 19 links were really high quality links
and that allowed us to achieve some amazing results for our client by the way if you want more
videos about link building please remember to like and subscribe anyway if you've dabbled in seo you
probably have a similar story where just a handful of high quality links allowed you to achieve some
major improvements if you do have a story like this please share it in the comments i'd love
to hear it plus it also inspire the people that are new to seo ivoy with all of that being said
there is a major thing you need to be aware of here and that is this if you're in a really
competitive niche you're probably going to be up against websites that have a large number of high
quality backlinks so they will have both quantity and quality and if that's the case you too will
need to focus on both quantity and quality too and there's no real way around this if you just
focus on one side of the coin you're going to be left behind no matter how good of a job you do
so to sum it all up the level of competition you're dealing with will decide the numbers you
need to focus on in terms of link quality and link quantity so how do you analyze a competition at
this point you're probably wondering how can you work out where you stand and how you should move
forward after all if this issue mostly depends on what your competition is doing how do you analyze
the competition so that you can get to the bottom of this issue fortunately this isn't really that
hard to do as there are so many seo tools out there that will help you analyze the competition
for instance if you type a certain keyword into the seo tool ahrefs that's at ahas.com it will
provide you with a keyword difficulty score by the way this is just one approach you can use
for the challenge but if you have a better method or tool you use for this kind of stuff let me know
in the comment section below anyway the keyword difficulty score produced by address will let you
know how many backlinks you'll need if you want to have a good shot at ranking for the term in
question now the tool doesn't really tell you about the quality you need to aim for when it
comes to your backlinks so you can't rely on this figure 100 after all remember that one amazing
backlink can be worth many average ones because of this you might want to take a more hands-on
approach here when analyzing the competition which is what we're going to cover next okay so how
exactly do you take a more hands-on approach here well you basically just need to analyze the actual
backlink profiles of the websites you're going to be up against when targeting a particular keyword
if you do that you'll have a better sense of what the current benchmark is and what
you should actually be aiming for in terms of both quality and quantity of backlinks and like before
you can use seo tools such as ahrefs to help you conduct a deep analysis of the competition if you
provide this tool with a certain keyword it will analyze the website's ranking for that particular
term for instance if you check out this graphic you can see some of the top ranking websites for
the term women's clothing what's interesting here is that ahrefs will provide you with something
known as domain rating also known as dr this is essentially a rating that measures the strength
of a website's backing profile and the higher this number is the stronger the backlink profile is now
if we click on one of these websites we can get a closer look at their backlink profile what's also
interesting here is that backlinks that come from websites with a idr are essentially classified
as high quality links so if you're going to copy the link profile of your competitors
which is something we're going to cover later in this video you'll want to note down the high
dr websites that are linking to your betters and if you do this you can then go about getting some
of your own high quality links from these sites anyhow moving on ahrefs will also help you sort
links by type this is really helpful if you want to copy the link profile of a certain competitor
and if you use a tool like ahrefs you can also see how many backlinks a competitor is building on a
monthly or even daily basis now a lot of people don't really do this sort of research and they
tend to only focus on total backlinks at any given moment in time however new backlink data is really
helpful because if you know how many backlinks your competitors are building as time goes on you
can figure out a couple of really important things for one you can get a sense of how many backlinks
you'll need to keep on building to maintain and improve your position once you're neck and neck
with the competition also if you know how many backlinks the competition is building every day or
every month you can get a sense of how seriously they're taking seo for instance the competition
might have a lot of strong backlinks but they might not be building a lot of links at the moment
in fact the growth of the link profile over the past few months or even years could possibly
be a little flat if that's the case this could be a sign that it won't be too hard
to compete with other sites and maintain your position once your link profile is up to scratch
after all the number and quality of backlinks you need to build a secure position is often different
from the number and quality of links you'll need to build every month to maintain your position
and if you don't appreciate the difference you might lose your rankings not long after you gain
them so how do you come up with a backlink strategy that will beat the competition
right so at this point you might have a rough sense of the number of links you'll need
and what the quality of these links will need to be so what steps you actually need to take next
so that you can actually build these links and beat the competition well you might just want to
begin by building links that's similar to what the competition already has after all the competition
already has a backlink strategy that seems to be working so why not emulate what's already working
for instance after using the link sorting feature on ahrefs you might notice that the competition
has a lot of edu links edu links and these are links from educational institutions now if you
study these links you might be able to figure out how you can replicate them too and in some cases
you might not be able to build the same links as your competitors but that's okay you should still
try to make sure that your links have a similar or even higher domain rating as your competitors
in doing so you can ensure the links you're building are going to be good enough to rank of
course building backlinks is a whole other video in and of itself but as it happens i actually have
another video that covers this topic check out my video eight powerful seo link building strategies
for 2022 because this video teaches you about some of the best link building methods for 2022
and if you need some more advice check out that video also if you want some link building advices
tailored to your website and niche you can also book in a free consulting call with
us at juliangoldi.com and we'll be happy to help you out by the way if you actually have
some advice or tips when it comes to building links based on your competitors link profile
please share your thoughts on this topic in the comment section below i'd love to hear from you
and remember backlinks can only do so much you see backlinks are one of the major pillars of a good
seo strategy so it's important to remember that backlinks can only do so much for your rankings
after all there's a bunch of other stuff you need to focus on too and if you ignore these
other things you probably won't experience a ton of success with seo no matter how many amazing
backlinks you build so what are the other ranking factors when it comes to google well one of the
main things you need to focus on is actually satisfying the intent of the person performing
the search on google so for example suppose you're targeting the keyword how to train a doc if that's
the case your web page on this topic needs to be really really really helpful to the person
that's performing this search and looking for this information that means your web page should be one
of the best web pages that exists on this topic and there should be very little doubt on that
you also need to make sure that you take care of basic user experience issues too for instance your
website needs to load quickly and you also need to make sure that it works on a mobile device
so congratulations you made it to the end of this video hopefully now you have a clear sense
of how you should approach the question how many backlinks do i need to rank as you can see there's
not really a one-size-fits-all answer and it all really depends on the competition as well as the
quality of your backlinks plus you also need to account for the other ranking factors of seo 2.
of course you might still feel a little confused and uncertain of how you should move forward
that's perfectly understandable as we have covered a ton of information today and some of it wasn't
totally beginner level material anyhow thanks for watching and please remember to like and subscribe
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