John Hargrave: A 10,000% Increase in Backlinks is yours – By Doing Nothing

Everybody can use more links. Now John Hargrave, writing for Search Engine Journal, explains “How to Get 10,000% More Backlinks in Google, Without Doing Anything.” The secret, he says, is Google Caffeine, the search giant’s latest indexing system. Available since June, Google calls it the “largest collection of web content” it has ever offered. Caffeine exercises deeper and more frequent indexing in an effort to provide more up-to-date, real-time results. The backlink increases can be seen in the “Links to Your Site” section in Google Webmaster Tools.

Using his own clients as an example, Hargrave reports an average 10,000% increase in Google-reported backlinks. While this is an average, he provides a partial list of sites surveyed and the changes in backlinks recorded. Increases range from 394% to over 56,000%. This particular instance showed an increase from 5,900 backlinks to nearly 3.5 million backlinks, all in a little over a month.

The real secret here is that previously, Google admitted that it displayed only a fraction of indexed backlinks with Webmaster Tools. Now, with Caffeine, they are able to show a nearly complete list of backlinks. Not surprisingly, Hargrave says, Bing has increased the number of links it reveals to site owners to the 1,000 most high quality links leading to your site. This is a clear step above Google, which includes literally all sites (including spammers) that may be linking to you.

Article Describes Five Types of Link Building You Should Always Use

Walk into any link building company anywhere in the world and ask them what's the most important thing you can do to increase your ranking quickly. Chances are, you'll get different answers from everyone you ask. But a recent article on SearchEngineJournal.com highlights the 5 types of Link Building that you should have at your disposal from day one. Author Kristi Hines says that for starters, traffic-generating links are the most important. These may not even be links that raise your rankings, per se. Their purpose is to expose your website to pages with higher traffic. These links can include such things as embedded links, banner ads, forum posts, blogs, etc.


Links that elevate your SERPs do effect your rankings. So it's vital to get dofollow links on pages relevant to yours. Links that boost your page rank can also be beneficial. The more dofollow links you have on high PageRank sites, the higher your PageRank will eventually go. Links that help you build or reestablish your reputation – usually embedded links using the name of your business –are also an excellent link-building tool. Finally, backlink to your backlinks! The more links leading to your support links translates into more total links back to your site. Take it from any link building service you talk to – these five link-building guidelines are essential.