Backlinks

You just launched your website and your are trying to figure out how to start building backlinks to your new website.

Some of the questions that strikes your mind are:

• How often should you link to your site? 
• How many links to build per day?
• What is the average number of links per month?

The link building process below will explain how you can build links to your website as you get the hype of social media across different social media sites. As you are building your online presence on social sites, you might want to take advantage of that phase and build your links as well.

The typical steps are as follows:

1. Your website is live

2. Social Profiles Created - Build up your presence on top social media websites. That's what real business will do.

3. Business Citations - Your next step is to add your business NAP (name, address and phone number) to directories like Yellow Pages, Google Business, Yelp etc.  Use the same NAP in all of the directories where you want to build your citations.

4. Social Signals Round 1- Now your business has come to people's eye and they are talking about it on social websites like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Linkedin etc.  You may want have more fans and followers and your content shared around.

5. Initial Link Building - Your social presences has taken the initial steps already and now you might want to focus on building backlinks to your websites that some of the people already know about.

6. Social Signal Round 2 - Your marketing campaign has been launched and now its time again to get people talk about your business around the social networking sites.

7. High Velocity Backlinks Mode - In the step 6 more people are talking about you and your business and the more of your business in on people's mouth. This is where you want to build more links and faster before the heat goes down.

8. Low Velocity Mode - Your marketing campaign has ended and the social heat is burning low. This is where you want to slow down your link building process and build links just 3-5 links a month.

9. Never Ending Cycle - This process goes on and on following the above from 4-8 until you hit your goals.