You might have often come across those articles which say that it is very important to have relevant backlinks than the number of backlinks. But how far is this true? Yes I agree that relevancy is important but the number of backlinks can also not be ignored.


It is important for an SEO company to obtain links from relevant sources but it should not forget the number of links. More links to a site will surely increase its popularity in some way or other. And also there are all possible chances that the links can increase in relevancy over a period of time.

Backlinks are very crucial for SEO and need to be obtained rightly and in the best way. These are links you receive from some other website when they link to you. There are many different ways of obtaining backlinks but the best way is of link baiting. Below is a good example of how link baiting works and why it is important to have more number of links whether relevant or irrelevant.

The news site Drudgereport.com suddenly saw increase in the ranking when it first published the news of President Clinton’s sexual
relations with Monica Lewinsky. This was of course the latest and the most interesting news of the year.

Millions of sites immediately linked to Drudgereport.com. Most of the sites that linked to it were not from the news or the press industry but still they helped rank its site number 1 for any keyword that had the name Clinton, Monica, Lewinsky, president or anything else related to the news.

This incident proves that though the backlinks are irrelevant the number of them surely matters. All the SEO services providers should understand this and try to increase the number of backlinks from whatever source they are able to, whatever source refers to legitimate sites.