How Many Inbound Links Should You Build Each Month?

More than one site owner has asked me how many links they should build each month, or how many links they can expect my team to build for them as a full service SEO client. Since so much of SEO seems to follow "best practices" and "guidelines," with very few hard and fast rules (although they do exist and it's important you know what they are), many site owners are looking for a quantifiable way to measure and control their SEO campaign. Unfortunately, when it comes to link building it's hard to give an exact number of how many inbound links in a given time period is the "right" amount. Obviously 1,000 links overnight might catch the attention of the search engines, but what happens if a piece of content should go viral? You can't control how many people link to you and would you want to pull the plug on something that is doing a great job of building inbound links when it...

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