How many backlinks for what type of keyword difficulty?

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I've never done this properly before so I just want to know what I'm getting myself into and what my aim should be to start with?

So, how many backlinks would I need for a low difficulty 500 searches per month keyword? How many for low or medium difficulty 5000 searches per month? What about medium-higher difficulty 15 000 searches etc.? In other words, how much do I need to spend on backlinks?

I have a budget and I just want to plan things accordingly so I don't get myself in too deep trying to bite off more than I can chew. I want to know what to expect so I can plan for it.

I will try to get a domain with some DA/DR/TF and backlinks to start with.

Any responses will be immensely appreciated.

P.S. I know there are no magic numbers and everything is relative, but I just wish to expand my understanding of how things work. Thank you.
 
There is no hard set number. What you can do is research some of the top 10 competition and see if you find a pattern. Do some competitor analysis. But be warned there's tons of randomization in current algorithms, the site with most quality links doesn't necessarily rank higher. Some shitty sites with no links rank really well for some reason (remember the austin rhynoplasty guy).
 
It depends on a variety of factors such as the competitiveness of the keyword, the quality and quantity of your website's content, your domain age and how effectively you are able to execute your link building strategy. Generally speaking, the more competitive the keyword, the more backlinks you will need to achieve top rankings. However, it is important to note that simply having a large number of backlinks is not enough - the links must be high quality and come from authoritative websites.
 
As stated above, there’s no set number.

Backlinks are about quality, not quantity. You want foundational backlinks pointing to your money site to prop it up, so to speak.

What you’ll first want to do is competition analysis for the first page of websites ranking for the keywords you want to rank for.

Youll want to figure out how many backlinks, referring domains, DA/PA, DR (An ahrefs metric but still relevant), and sometimes the age of the competition.

You’ll aim to make your website, or the page you’re wanting to rank, have better metrics than the competition.
 
So what if I buy an aged domain with good metrics and good backlinks and I determine that said domain is better than all my competitors' domains, does that mean I'll automatically rank higher? Is that all?

That doesn't sound very expensive in a low competition, low search volume niche.

But let's say it's a keywords with 2-3 monthly searches, surely I will need to spend some money on additional backlinks? It can't be that easy.
 
So what if I buy an aged domain with good metrics and good backlinks and I determine that said domain is better than all my competitors' domains, does that mean I'll automatically rank higher? Is that all?

That doesn't sound very expensive in a low competition, low search volume niche.

But let's say it's a keywords with 2-3 monthly searches, surely I will need to spend some money on additional backlinks? It can't be that easy.

There was a time when you could do that and it’d take minimal work to rank. However, even if you did that, it’d still take your newly created content a couple months to reach page 1 for low to medium competition.

With really low search volume and very low competition, I’d confidently say you could rank that in roughly a month after creating the content on an expired domain with decent metrics. Maybe not position one, but definitely on the first or even second page for that term(s).

But just know that buying expired domains isn’t the ‘ace up your sleeve’ it once was.
 
There was a time when you could do that and it’d take minimal work to rank. However, even if you did that, it’d still take your newly created content a couple months to reach page 1 for low to medium competition.

With really low search volume and very low competition, I’d confidently say you could rank that in roughly a month after creating the content on an expired domain with decent metrics. Maybe not position one, but definitely on the first or even second page for that term(s).

But just know that buying expired domains isn’t the ‘ace up your sleeve’ it once was.

But as I understand it, domain metrics are purely based on its backlinks. So if backlinks are the most important ingredient in ranking, then surely domain metrics are still very relevant?

Also, one thing I don't understand is people seem to pay for links per month. Is that needed for low comp niches? To buy backlinks every month?
 
But as I understand it, domain metrics are purely based on its backlinks. So if backlinks are the most important ingredient in ranking, then surely domain metrics are still very relevant?

Also, one thing I don't understand is people seem to pay for links per month. Is that needed for low comp niches? To buy backlinks every month?

Well, it's not about the number of links on a monthly basis and weekly basis. You have to consistently build backlinks for your website, Even if it is a low competition niche or hard competition niche you have to stabilize the external links that will link to your website

Don't think like for low competitive niche you build only low quantity, even it's possible but you have to invest a lot for low quantity of backlinks but the quality you buy need more money

So it depends only on the quality links not on time frame and niche
 
It depends on the keyword difficulty. Generally, more difficult keywords require more backlinks.
 
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