Originally Posted by chrishirst

Anywhere between 1 and 20 will be fine

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BTW If you are concerned about the IPs when you are building links they are hardly going to be "quality" links

Hey thanks for the info mister mod...:-)
My only concern with the number of IPs is that I was assuming that if I have 20 backlinks from one very good relevant IP/Domain, then it won't be as good as 5 different relevant IPs distributed over 20 links. I don't understand how quality is hurt?
All the links would be from relevant and legit.

All the links would be from relevant and legit.

Then why do you care about the IPs?

Then ONLY people who need to be even slightly concerned about IPs are the people getting junk links and trying to "fool" the SEs.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Then why do you care about the IPs?

Then ONLY people who need to be even slightly concerned about IPs are the people getting junk links and trying to "fool" the SEs.

Alright so now I get it. If I want to have quality backlinks then I should not care about the IPs, but I should care about the sites' relevancy. Is that so?

Not even the "relevancy".

"Quality" links are ones that send your site real visitors, with credit cards poised just waiting to buy something.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Not even the "relevancy".

"Quality" links are ones that send your site real visitors, with credit cards poised just waiting to buy something.

What is the definition of quality here then?

Originally Posted by digitalposter

What is the definition of quality here then?

Everything that came after the word "quality"

Can you cite any example of such site?
Does it mean that quality websites refer to only the sites where users buy something?

?? ??

You seem to be confusing links with sites.

Try re-reading Chris' post

Originally Posted by digitalposter

Can you cite any example of such site?
Does it mean that quality websites refer to only the sites where users buy something?

It all depends what you are selling.

If you sell gardening tools a quality link may come from a garden designers website or a seed merchant site.

If you sell yellow plastic ducks, a bathroom fittings site might be good.

When you are building links the best thing you could ever do for your site is to forget that search engines even exist. You may actually get links for the right reasons then.

I am sorry for being such a noob..
But thanks a lot for making it clear.

So it all depends on your niche...am I right now?
You just have to go out there and look for sites which are related to your site and look for reasons or ways that site may benefit you in any manner and links may be one of them. I hope I am quite near now..

Getting closer

"Related" is a broad sword.

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/the-go...tml#post233085

Well that thread was some kinda pro-talk for a noob like me. If somebody cud explain all that in a gist so that it could be easily understood and followed. Thanks for the help mister mod. You're wonderful!

Originally Posted by digitalposter

So it all depends on your niche...am I right now?
You just have to go out there and look for sites which are related to your site and look for reasons or ways that site may benefit you in any manner and links may be one of them. I hope I am quite near now..

Much closer.
There are no effective generic promotion techniques. Each site is different, each offering is different, the visitors will be different too.

Forget about the web for a second. Look at TV commercials. They're all different. You don't see the same commercials with ["insert brand here"]. Some say come "visit our store", others say "call for delivery", etc...

Your promotion should absolutely be based upon your target audience and your offering.
Try writing a marketing plan.
The act of writing it will help you to organize all of your ideas on marketing your offering. It should be part of your business plan.

A marketing plan can be used to help you measure the effectiveness of whatever techniques you use. This will help prevent wasting time.

Notice the folks who say they "think" directory posting works. Why don't they know? Why burn away hours and hours of your life without knowing the effectiveness of your effort?

My opinion, it doesn't matter whether the links come from different domains, what does matter is the link quality,the pr of the page which placed a link to you,the outbound links,the relevance.

Is it related to your niche ?
is the page where your site link is placed having Pagerank ?
is the page where your site link is placed having less outgoing links ?

and yes you should try getting links from diff sites rather then getting bulk links like 20 or 30 links from one site. try to get few links from many sites which are relevant with quality assured.

If you develop links from different IP's, they are more valuable then many links from the same IP for getting high PR.

Originally Posted by Online Degree

Is it related to your niche ?
is the page where your site link is placed having Pagerank ?
is the page where your site link is placed having less outgoing links ?

and yes you should try getting links from diff sites rather then getting bulk links like 20 or 30 links from one site. try to get few links from many sites which are relevant with quality assured.

I did not do it intentionally!
I had and have no intention of spamming or stuff like that.
I started posting in one forum, and went on posting. It was fun.

But then, one day, I thought of adding signatures when I came to know that it's a dofollow forum and it is of my niche>gaming.

But when I added the signature, I accidentally landed upon a thread that was started by me and to my shock, I could see the signature over there. And then I found that my signature was added to every previous post of mine. And they were around 93 posts!

This wasn't happening while working on Vbulletin or any other forums, the sig gets appended to the post only after we add it. It doesn't append to the previous posts.

Originally Posted by Dave@Hivelociy

if you have all well established sites on different server then yes you can back link them together. If you do them all in the same range then you'll most likely get popped for link triangulation...

I agree each link should be on a separate IP
if you don't want to end up on the last page of your serps

Originally Posted by willcode4beer

Notice the folks who say they "think" directory posting works. Why don't they know? Why burn away hours and hours of your life without knowing the effectiveness of your effort?

Good point you all should have a separate site for testing strategies.
It should also be hosted separately from your main site. Hosting is cheap
This will enable you to learn what works best and help you become much faster at SEO because you will waste much less time

I know for a fact IP addresses can get you sent to the last page of the serps
I have done it to myself a few times removing the offending links sent me back to where I was

I am currently testing forum posting and yes it does work when you post in relevant forums I moved my seo book site back to page 1 form #12 just by posting in SEO forums. When testing forum posting test each forum separately! Just added SEO book to sig on webmaster-talk currently #9 watch it move up

retests sites and strategies at lest every 3 to 6 months