Ok, We all know that the only real way to increase a site’s popularity is through link building.  Most of the time these links can be in the form of directory submissions, link exchange, blog commenting, or good old fashioned natural links that occur when people actually find enough value in their site to give you a link on theirs.

Obviously naturally built links the preferable method to get high quality links and traffic to your site, but let’s face it, every web idea you have isn’t going to go viral from the get go!  And most of the time you’ll have to give your site a little nudge to get things going.  If you can get some decent search engine rankings for a few keywords, that should help get the ball rolling, and hopefully, if you have a site that isn’t complete junk, and you offer your visitors a useful service, product or information, the natural link building will commence.

So the million dollar question…how many links do I need to get decent search engine rankings so I can get my site seen, and everyone will love it and we all live happily ever after?  The answer is, there is no answer.  I recommend getting links anywhere and everywhere you can at first, but MAKE SURE THEY’RE QUALITY LINKS.  Don’t go crazy with 5000 directory submissions a day, but if you build a few hundred links a week, and can keep that consistency, for a couple months, you’ll start to your SERP’s improve.

The whole idea here is to get your site out into the world, get it seen, and have people start giving you natural links so you don’t have to rely on search engine traffic.  If your site has some value to it, people will want to link to it naturally.  Strive to get traffic outside of organic search traffic and watch your traffic explode.