How many backlinks will be enough to get success?



I started my first Niche Website 3 months ago and working on it slow and steady. One of my old friend asked me to make back links for your website to get good ranking in search results, my question is, "How many back links will be enough to get success in search results?

Also please guide me am I missing something which is preventing my site to be rank at the top at 1 position? My Searching Tag is, "Stuhrling Watch Review" and the domain name is also the same.

Keep doing the backlinks until you hit the 1st position in Google page one.

Do not stop the backlinks after your website are already at the 1st position because your competitor are doing the backlinks too. They will keep do the backlinks until their website hit the no.1. If you stop, that mean you give the chances to your competitor to take you down. If you have budget, you can outsource the backlinks process.

Do not forget about the Onpage optimize, it is also important to help you rank your website.

~kelvin
 
You have to have more quality and quantity backlinks than the #1 spot. There are several tools to gadge backlinks and quality, it's quite simple.

Here is a noob tool that is somewhat powerful:
http://seogadget.co.uk/anchor-text-tool/index.php

I suggest targeting 4x what the competition is doing. If they got 2000 quality, attempt to get 8000, some will be quality, some might be nofollow, etc. Remember, that they are #1 because they are most likely doing SEO or adding backlinks themselves, so use a tool gadge what they are doing and out do them.

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