Comments on: Link Building is Still a Numbers Game

By: Satrap

Satrap — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:34:05 +0000

Great post Brandon.

I have had similar experiences with my keywords as well. Being #1 is where the traffic is. Even in big niches like mine, the difference of traffic crazy.

I think I red somewhere that 1st position gets more than 40% or so of the traffic for the keyword.

By: Chandra

Chandra — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:44:18 +0000

After Google Panda update is this still valid now? Unique content is still the best.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:21:51 +0000

Like many others I also believe that unique content is the key to get huge traffic and high page rank.Your article is very informative and useful.Great job man.Keep it on.Thanks.

By: Boris

Boris — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:56:00 +0000

Nice to see those stats for pointing out the major difference in traffic you’ll get when ranking higher in the SE’s. Good websites usually have good content. But it seems now that you have to be in the top three to get the traffic.

By: Markus Jalmerot

Markus Jalmerot — Thu, 26 May 2011 10:39:39 +0000

No doubt that links is what matters the most. But the perfect seo strategy also need some decent content to link to.

By: dee oneal

dee oneal — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:19:31 +0000

Anyone who wants to succeed online with their site should strive hard and work really hard in order reach their goal. I know that it’s a continuous learning of the ins and outs of seo and you should be patient enough to actually compete with others.

By: SEO Pro Worldwide

SEO Pro Worldwide — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 04:37:40 +0000

The Farmer update certainly favors high quality content and high quality links. I think the future of link building will be quality verses quantity.

More quality and relevant links is the key.

By: Brandon Hopkins

Brandon Hopkins — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:39:39 +0000

@Florian – you’re right, for now. In the near future I believe G will start heavily devaluing bulk links from the same types of sites (comments/forums/profiles/etc). We’ll see. I’ve started focusing on maintaining a Diverse Link Profile.

By: Florian

Florian — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:59:28 +0000

True, Charles, although any number of quality links can be subtituted by masses of lower quality links. There are websites in extremely competitive fields completely relying on forum signature and profile spam, and shockingly 200-300k of these links seems to work pretty well.

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:47:07 +0000

Link building is a numbers game but that is only part of the story I guess because I’ve seen sites with a couple of 100 backlinks outrank sites with 10.000′s of backlinks. Quality of backlinks, content and activity are also major factors. But nice to see those stats for pointing out the major difference in traffic you’ll get when ranking higher in the SE’s.