Just a quick post on backlinks. Backlinks are a very necessary part of getting your site ranked well with Google, and other search engines. However, don’t just try and make it an instantaneous operation. Just as Google doesn’t like seeing a new site going from no content to thousands of paging instantly, you also shouldn’t go from no links to hundreds in an hour.

There’s resources like SocialMarker.com that will help you to get a large number of backlinks very quickly, some of them ‘Do-Follow’, I would definitely take it slowly.

I had a site that I was wanting to do a test on by getting as many backlinks as I could, as fast as I could. I went from nearly zero backlinks to over a 150 in about an hour or so. Although I did see an increase in traffic very soon after having the additional links, I have no doubt that I would have realized much better results had I obtained the links in a more steady, natural flow.

I don’t have any specific data, but even if you use a tool such as SocialMarker, I wouldn’t be in a rush to get every link right now.

Remember, if you have a quality site with good content that people will want to come back to, the links will happen anyway.