How much time do you spend building backlinks?

[Farmer77]

Do you spend a lot or a little bit of your time accumulating backlinks? Or do you stop building backlinks after you have reached a certain amount?

[James]

Never stop building backlinks. You should try to find whatever balance suits you best between backlink building and building content/improving your site--just remember that they're very important and the more and the more quality you can get, the better.

[polspoel]

I do it the first week, then never again. (I do make sure to have an automated directory script and stuff like that)

Ofcourse, social media is done all the time (digg, etc.)

[Mike]

I've just started and I'm trying to get about six backlinks a month for each site. It will mean a steady increase, so shouldn't trigger any penalties or anything (if there are any that is).

[Chris]

I do it a lot less now than when I first started out. Instead I focus more on trying to get them naturally.

[Todd W]

I do it a lot less now than when I first started out. Instead I focus more on trying to get them naturally.

Same here.

Quality content/unique will bring in bunches of backlinks.

I recently wrote a VERY small guide to save a few bucks and it was what I used to "launch" my new site, and it has given me 100 visits a day for almost a month now from that single article. It got me into the SERPs, etc.

Unique quality articles/write-ups are worth a lot. :)

[KelliShaver]

Since both of my main content sites right now are tutorial sites, I submit new content to the various tutorial directories. It takes about 10min per article. I only need to submit to the major directories. The smaller ones will pick them up from there (though it may take a bit longer than actually submitting them to all of them yourself, it's really not worth the effort to do so for the amount of traffic the smaller sites bring).

[Johnny Gulag]

I do not spend very much time on backlinks. I probably should, but I just wait until someone links to it on their own.

[GeorgeB]

I do it a lot less now than when I first started out. Instead I focus more on trying to get them naturally.What do you yourself do to gain natural backlinks?

[ozgression]

What do you yourself do to gain natural backlinks?

I'm guessing he'll say "write content that people want to link to". ;)

[fredarn]

yeah, "content is king".

[newdeveloper]

Considering that I am working on my first site right now, I do not have any sites of my own to link to. Right now I am spending lots of time building backlinks because nobody will every find my page unless I get a few and a dmoz listing.

[ZigE]

Lately, alot of time. If theres one thing I know is that my competitor outsources the management of his website, and seldom spends time on link building, so I'll just keep working at it, until I can outrank them :flare: :lol: