Some people are spending money on link building services but they don’t know how to use them properly in many cases, and are wasting their time

Yes, that would be terrible, right?

Here’s some link building tips you don’t see mentioned too often:

SEO, link building, and content addition should be done slowly or just gradually.Creating a content-rich site with a lot of pages in a short amount of time is frowned upon.

And the same thing holds true for linkbuilding.Starting off too quickly could end up being a cause for your site, or sites, to get sandboxed, taken out of the SERPs for a while.

You have to build content and links at a reasonable pace.  The search engines know from indexed billions of pages how normal sites are built, so anything that differs from that will garner unwanted extra attention.

If you have an old websites and want to revive it with some new content and links, here’s how you should handle the link building aspect of your rebuilding, or revitalization process.

Research your total number of existing backlinks and use Yaho for this, not Google.Take this amount and divide it by the number of months your site has been active with content.The end results to this division will show you how many links you’ve obtained on average, and this is an important number.  Increase this pace as more pages get added, and the search engine spiders are coming more frequently to your sites.

If you build links too quickly, you will end up getting sandboxed for a while and all that effort and hard work that went into your link building campaigns would have been for naught.

Daniel McGonagle has more articles on linkbuilding and reviews the LinkVana and Backlink Solutions services at his link building services review site.