Can I beat this competition with manual link building?

Thanks for anybody that can help a total newbie!!! :baby09:

Competition is
3600 exact local searches
4Million results, although everything is a cr*p below 5th page

competition #1:
yahoo SE links: 84
Market Samurai: Backlinks 5274; Referring domains 63

competition #2:
yahoo SE links: 605
Market Samurai: Backlinks 4640; Referring domains 220


competition #3:
yahoo SE links: 107
Market Samurai: Backlinks 3644; Referring domains 209

Why there is so huge difference between Yahoo SE and market samurai backlinks?


Its in local google with local language
I'm on the third page with a new optimized site, with like 20 backlinks through 301 redirect
domain is 1 year old
I thought to start manual link building and backlink indexing

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I have a couple of questions

If I only build a few hundred backlinks manually, can I index those backlinks immediately by

pinging them or is it still a danger for sandbox?

I thought to use a list of high PR backlinks only or should I diversify the backlink PR also?

I have 1 primary and about 10 secondary keywords, I thought to diversify my backlink anchor


texts by
50% primary keyword
40% secondary keywords
5% domain name
5% of random texts

is it diverse enough?

I cannot really create articles as artile directories only approve articles in english, but I

do this SEo in small local language, does anyone know some directories that would approve

foreign languages?

also interested to see the answers

Manual backlinks will never get your site sandboxed! Unless you hire like 100 people and build sites faster than automation can. However, more than manual or automated, I would always recommend using diverse methods to get backlinks. All web 2.0 backlinks can seem spammy, all AD submissions can seem spammy etc.

I guess moving a keyword up in local SE's should not be a hassle at all. However, do you feel the need to rank on google.com? As your business seems pretty local focused.

You can submit to several thousand article directories which are auto approved. Msot of them are crappy, but some juice is better than none at all. Goarticles.com approves instantly and has PR4.

Thanks, seoguru13

But I'd still would like to get an experienced opinion to my main concern,
is this competition beatable with manual link building?

Not sure if you have scrapebox but I would use SB to take a look at the links of your competitors. SB has other uses other than generating spammy posts. By looking at their links you will have an idea how your competitors are building their links and that could decide a direction for your campaign especially if you have to use more proactive SEO techniques. You don't get bonus points for manual links by the way from Googliath.