The speed of getting new backlinks

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Be careful with how fast you receive backlinks from other sites. If you have a fairly new web site getting a lot of backlinks all at once can look very unnatural and put your site right back into the sandbox.

It is best to usually get a smaller amount of links at a more persistent pace. The rate at which links are acquired should match or be close to that of what a quality site in the same category would have.

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by markbrown UR6 1 year 19 weeks ago

I know from experience that this is exactly what happened to one of my sites a while back. I got a lot of backlinks from directories and was placed in the sandbox for a few months.