Everyone wants to know how to get to the top of Google’s search results. The issue is that there is too much SEO material on the internet that is contradictory. Finding effective backlink tactics can feel like a losing battle.
Because backlinks are one of the most essential components of SEO, this blog will attempt to address the question of how many backlinks are required to achieve the top ranking.
There is no secret formula that can tell us how many backlinks your website requires in order to rank first. Instead, there are a number of changeable variables that might assist businesses in determining what it takes to succeed.
Significance of backlinks
Using branded anchors, build consistent backlinks to your homepage. When it comes to major companies (or websites that dominate the SERPs), there is a similar thread that runs through them all.
They all have a lot of links pointing to their homepage, and the anchor text for 85 percent to 95 percent of those links is either their brand name, their URL, or their URL written as “Website.com.”
by pressing on one or more of the following items: brand trust, content, and backlinks on the homepage.
Build a trustworthy homepage
The heart of your site is the homepage, and implementing homepage SEO correctly is the key to laying a solid foundation that might position you on page one on SERP
If you don’t establish sufficient brand trust on your homepage, the rest of your SEO efforts will be frustrating and disappointing.
Consistently pointing valuable backlinks signals google that you are a relevant brand that is legitimate to the users.
Hence, try fetching good amount of worthy backlinks to the homepage of your website
Understand the niche of your website
Some niches have a higher level of competition than others. For example, the SEO sector is overflowing with experts who all know how to rank at the top of Google. As a result, the SEO niche is one of the most tough (if not the most difficult) to rank in.
Other categories, such as hairdressers or pet supplies, are less competitive. As a result, the quantity of backlinks required for such websites will range significantly from what is required to be at the top of the SEO specialty.
If a company genuinely understands its niche and how competitive it is in terms of SEO, it should be able to estimate how many backlinks are required. More backlinks are required in highly competitive niches and vice versa.
Check for ‘Niche specific’ accuracy of the website
Building a website that is particularly niche-specific is one technique to gain ranks with 70% less links than competitors. This is a website that focuses on a single topic in great detail.
For reference, there is a difference between a general home improvement website and one that focuses on interiors.
If the interiors website provides excellent material in that sector, it will be able to rank for interior-related key phrases with far less connections than a broad home improvement website.
Google prefers niche-specific websites that cover all aspects of a single subject. Keep in mind that the more niche your audience is, the more dense it will be.
Monitor whether your page is a power page or sub page
A power page is a non-promotional page on your site that is content-heavy (2,000+ words) and usually goes into great detail to solve an issue for your target audience. It’s your finest work.
It wouldn’t appear natural if your interior designing services page has 100 hyperlinks. Google will immediately recognise it as a forgery. Don’t forget that they’re looking for trustworthy information.
In this circumstance, businesses can still strive to rank their sub-pages by first developing backlinks to the homepage and power pages, and then linking to services pages from the power pages. This is a natural method of passing SEO juice.
Check how natural is your backlink profile
Almost all of your homepage links should have branded anchors, and all of your links should come from legitimate sources.
What about your power pages, though? Some organisations are so desperate to rank for a specific key phrase that they can’t help but construct a large number of exact match anchor backlinks. However, this is a tremendous blunder.
Google expects less than 10% of backlinks in a top-ranking backlink profile to be exact match anchors. So, how should the backlinks be structured? Natural anchors, blended anchors, and exact match anchors should all be used in your backlinks.
Looking for backlinks for homepage and beyond
Searching Google for the key keyword you want to rank for is the most efficient technique to find this information immediately. Then you look at everyone in the top 10 and assess how strong their brand authority is by looking at their homepage backlinks, as well as the backlinks to the specific page that is ranking.
The outliers in the top 10 should be examined.
Does Google rank websites with highest backlinks?
The answer is No. Now, suppose among the top ten ranked sites, there is a significant discrepancy, one of them has a significantly higher number of backlinks than the rest of the list. From Google’s standpoint, this is unnatural, and they would expect each page to have the same number of links. As a result, the site will not rank number one
High quality backlinks with high quality content
When it comes to competing with the Top 10, businesses must be realistic. They may not be able to afford to build more homepage backlinks or publish more content than the competition.
They can outrank them by building high-quality backlinks to the page they wish to rank.
Here’s an example of a website in its niche that doesn’t have the finest homepage brand trust. The website made the decision to generate decent content that matched its competitors’ and to increase the number of backlinks to their money page.
HOW MANY BACKLINKS PER DAY IS SAFE?
One of the most common link-building myths is that businesses will be fined if they develop too many backlinks in a single day. This simply isn’t the case. You can build as many links as you want each day as long as they are from high-quality sites and your anchor text profile appears natural.
Let’s pretend you just wrote the most popular floral arrangement blog article ever, and everyone in the floral world decided to link to it. Isn’t that strange? Obviously not. However, if this happened naturally, Google would expect the anchor text profile to look significantly different.
Another thing to think about is what we just mentioned: you can’t establish a lot of backlinks to pages that shouldn’t have a lot of backlinks. Remember how we talked about this with the interior designing website example earlier?
It’s not the same as building backlinks to a homepage or a power page. As long as the anchor profile looks decent, you can be more aggressive.
Concluding words
Backlinks are the backbone of the SEO process and essential for any web page or website. There isn’t any defined number to describe the amount of backlinks that a website should necessarily have in order to rank higher. To say the least a website must have a large and varied backlink profile. And a decent amount of backlinks should come from reputable websites. Having said that, the number of backlinks should be somewhat consistent for all pages of a website and should fall in the same bracket of backlinks with their competitors to be able to stay legitimate to the Google.
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