what's up guys julian goldie here and in today's video we're going to talk about how much is too
much when it comes to link building so for example a lot of website owners are worried
about receiving a penalty from google or even losing all of your traffic from google completely
for building too many backlinks now is that a risk should you be aware of this and how many backlinks
do you need to build your website to rank number one on google that's exactly what i'm going to
talk about in this video by the way if you haven't already subscribed please do if you want more seo
videos they're going to help you get more traffic more needs more sales to your website now mark
twain he once said that too much of anything is bad unless it's whiskey and for me i don't even
drink so that doesn't make sense right um i would say it's the same for link building right when it
comes to building backlinks your website one hard and fast rule isn't going to work for you the
same as other website owners i mean it depends on the industry it depends who you can beat him with
it depends on the rankings already for example if your competitors have hundreds of backlinks
then you're gonna need a similar amount to compete with them whereas if you're competing
with websites are very little backlinks to their website you haven't built many at all
then you don't need many to compete but so when it comes to how many backgrounds you need and
how much is too much this varies industry to industry there's no hard and fast rule
now at the same time is there such thing as too many when it comes to link building i would say
there isn't genuinely it doesn't matter how many backlinks you build as long as a high quality
so if you're looking at facebook or twitter for example these websites have an insane number of
backlinks pointing to their website but google is never going to turn around and say hey mark
zuckerberg what are you doing here you're building too many backlinks we're going to
ban you from google it's just never going to happen right because the types of backgrounds
that they're getting are organic they're natural people are linking to facebook twitter etc
simply because the content on there is very good because they like the platform and that just shows
that it really doesn't matter how many backlinks you get it's all about quality not quantity
so if you build a million backgrounds to your website but they're all high quality they're all
very organic they're all very natural looking and they're editorially added to your site then that's
good there's nothing wrong with that right but at the same time if you're jumping on fiverr.com
and you're building a thousand backlinks they're all low quality
they're all like the dregs of the internet when it comes to link building then that's only going to
harm your site and google is going to see that's suspicious it's going to look very unnatural and
you don't want that for your site so make sure that the types of backlinks you are building
are natural that they look organic that people are actually linking to your content not because
you've paid them 100 to do so but because your content is actually good for me personally i
would never say to a client that buying backlinks from fiverr is acceptable it just isn't the types
of links you get off there are very low quality it's not going to help your site and even though
you could buy 10 000 backlinks and even though i've said you can never have enough backlinks
if the types of links you're building are like quality forget it you're wasting your time
it's not going to help your rankings it could go against you google can pick that sort of activity
up with that algorithm and it will notice if you're building unnatural links so overall i
would just say avoid that type of movement just focus on high quality links now in terms of how
many backlinks you actually need to your website there's an easy way to do this right so what you
can do is research your competitors and you can see right what's joe blogs doing that i'm not
why are they out ranking me and all you need to do is go into a tool like an address
you type in the keyword you're trying to rank for on google so let's say you're trying to rank for
best dog food right for example you could go into ahrefs type that in and then you can see
all right who's ranking number one who am i competing with how many backgrounds do they
actually have to their page and not only that but you could take it a step further and see right
how can i get similar quality backlinks and what sort of backgrounds have they built so far
because if you look at their page and they've built 90 backlinks by actually 80 of those back
things are very low quality then you know actually you don't even need 80 backlinks to compete you
just need like 30 very high quality backwards and that will help your rankings even more so
it's easy to do the competitive research it's easy to find out how many backlinks are enough to rank
and you can use tools like ahrefs jump on there do the research and then you can figure out right for
this page i need 20 backlinks for this page i need 30 backlinks and you can just create like quite
a kind of accurate estimate of how many links you need to start ranking and i found this works very
well for our clients too having said that like i said you can build more background competitors
that doesn't matter if your competitors built 100 backlinks to their page but you build 120
and they're all natural they're all organic that's fine nothing wrong with that you're not going to
get penalized for building high quality backwards website no matter what sort of volume they're
at at the same time maybe sometimes you want to play it safe maybe you're worried about penalties
maybe you're very risk adverse as a website owner and this is your business after all
at that point then you could just see right my competitor has 30 backlinks to the page
so we're going to build 30 backwards too and if you build higher quality patterns versus them
then you're going to outrank them you're going to be able to hit that number one spot on google
that your competitors currently hold so i hope this video helps you you now know that you can
never have enough backgrounds as long as they're high quality as long as they're editorially added
and as long as those backgrounds look very natural at the same time never go
onto websites like fiverr.com and start building thousands of backwards so it's not going to help
and that's not the approach you want by the way i do run a link building agency
that's at juliangoli.com i'll leave the link in the description and if you want
more backlinks if you want more leads more traffic more sales to your website
then feel free to book in a call and we can talk about how we can help you give you a proven lean
building strategy that's going to help you rank higher your iq competitors get more traffic to
your site that's it juliangoldi.com feel free to book in a call now and thanks for watching