How many back links required for PR

twalters84,

No i dont think your website will ever get hurt for having backlinks pointed to it. However i strongly suggest you keep a close watch on the kind of links you buy. You should only buy links from relevant websites with good content. Also avoid buying links from sites that use java script to show the links (i mean link brokers that use java script), this way google can easily tell if the links are paid ads.

If you look at it logically, everyone has the right to advertise their sites, why would any search engine want to take that right away from you if you are doing everything the right way?

It's not that bad at all, It depends on what your purpose when buying links

Read below

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/

Hey there,

That is exactly what matt cutt's blog is talking about... buying links for the sole purpose of manipulating page rank.

Jason, you may want to read some more about paid links. Google has been lowering the PR on sites that have bought links. I would consider that hurting your website. That money could have gone to better use with creating quality content.

You are right about everybody should be able to advertise on their websites. Although Google makes their money through advertising so you can be sure one of their agendas is to control a large share of the advertising market. I think they even bought a website called doubleclick awhile back.

Sincerely,
Travis Walters

twalters84,

Ok lets take it this way, if you have 2 sites, one is new and the other is old, and you put your new site's link on your old site to tell people your new site is great and they should visit it. Does that mean google will hurt your new site just because you have a backlink from another site ? Obviously not.

Or if you place a link on your site saying, hey look see this great site eBay.com and place a link to ebay auction. Do you think google will hurt ebay for this? how would google know if ebay has paid you for this link or you are happy with ebay and you have placed a link on your site so that you users can benefit from it?

Google or any other search engines can not tell if a link is purchased or its been placed there because its a great site? how can a bot tell the difference? just how? unless the linking site has a java script and your link is embedded in that same java script shows up on hundreds or possibly thousands of sites and all pointing a link " Place your link here" to a link broker's site.

There are millions of sites that exchange links, should google hurt them as well? we should think logically

So there is no issue with buying links whatsoever if you play it right.

Jason

Hey there,

Maybe you should read the following article, coming from the head of google's spam team

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/

Its very easy to report paid links - and they are investigated.

When truth be told, not everybody is caught. However, a lot of people are. Why take the risk when you can get backlinks for free? It is all about quality content my friend.

Sincerely,
Travis Walters

Well again, the thing i've been saying is buy links only from relevant and quality sites with no sponsored links as heading.. There is no way google can check if the links are paid or placed just because the webmaster thinks it a good site for its users to read.

Obviously you would'nt want to have links from or to to spammy, illegal, hate or viagra sites. Thats junk and will certainly hurt you.

If sites could get penalized this way then this is a door to heaven for you to get your competitors sites banned, you could simply buy links for your competitor and then report to google and that site will get banned its pretty amusing man.

Google is doing something theres no doubt about it, but still very hard to tell the difference in paid or non paid links lets see how things come up in 6 months or so down the road.

No one can predict that if you have 10, 20 .... backlinks you will get PR . it depends on sites where you go for submission. So always submitt to Good Directories.

Always go for proper relevant business sites, directories are ok but business sites are the way to go now.

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i think average backlink is only good for first time,

the most important is your content site quality... and add your visitor loyality

you can calculate online ( at http://www.check-rank.com ) to see how many backlinks you required

I think there is no extent formula which tell how many backlinks are required for PR6. It depends on the Google or any search engine algorithm.

Do not go for tools like this........tools like this can not do anything else than misguiding you.
If you check this tool you will find that many sites with same pagerank have different no of backlinks....

Counting for no of backlinks is just wait of time.....because quality always matter lot more and not quantity. You can have good PR with just few no of backlinks and can not get good pr having large no of low quality or normal backlinks.

Also focus on getting higher ranking on search engines first and then for anything else........

I'm curious........how many of you guys have top ten rankings anyway?!?! (Show of hands, please...) And if so, what have you done to maintain your ranking, seeing as the google algorithm changes every other month or three.......

I think you must focus more on having a quality backlinks that are related to your site. For me, PR is not that important, having quality backlinks help you gain more traffics because linking back to other sites is an automatic traffic.

You could also find-out what your high ranking competitors have as back links and get back links from the same places.