it's 4 links for your entire domain, but only 1 link for each one of the 4 pages.
And this is important because google doesn't rank entire sites, it ranks pages, so if you want to rank for the word "duck" and an expert recommends that you get 15 backlinks to rank for the word "duck" then you need to point all of those 15 backlinks to the page that targets the word "duck" (which, in your case, is mywebsite.com/product/duck)
Rankings, backlinks and anchor texts always work on a per-page basis.
Something else that I'd like to point out is that the 4 backlinks you got still come from only 1 domain, and this is important because google weighs RDs (Referring Domains, so Domains) more heavily than backlinks.
So, you could get...
- 4 links from blogger
- 1 link from tumblr
- 13 links from wordpress
- 5 links from pinterest
So, you would tend to be happy thinking "woohoo, I've got 23 backlinks from top sites", but in reality google doesn't view your backlinking profile as rosy as you do because when links are so easy (and free) to get google devalues them (removes their ranking power).
So, in reality, in google's eyes you still have 23 backlinks in total, but you only have 4 RDs (Referring Domains), because all of your backlinks come from 4 sites only (blogger, tumblr, wordpress, and pinterest).
If one of your competitors was to have, for example...
-1 link from blogger
-1 link from tumblr
-1 link from wordpress
-1 link from pinterest
-1 link from wix
... then - all things being equal - they would outrank you for your target keyword simply because they have more RDs than you. Google simply values RDs more than backlinks, which is why we all fight tooth and nails over getting more RDs instead of getting more backlinks
plenty of web 2.0s to put your backlinks on, just do a google search for 'best web 2.0s", or "list of backlink sites like blogger", or whatever. And if you look well enough I'm sure you will find plenty of web 2.0s on BHW, too (even I have shared several such lists in the last 2 years).
But web 2.0s are not very good because - remember - when a source of backlinks is easy and free to get google devalues it because everyone has access to it. So, even if you find 50-60 such web 2.0s that you can get backlinks from, in the end it's not worth the trouble for many reasons:
- google doesn't care about free and easy to get sources
- these platforms themselves do nasty tricks to your backlinks
I've build 41 backlinks on these platforms about 2 years ago and after 3 months only 9 of them were still live, or indexed in google. The rest of them have either been de-indexed by google, or they have been nofollow'd by the web 2.0 sites themeselves, or they've ghosted my content, or closed my account, or forced me to upgrade in order to keep my links alive, and so on... A lot of headaches with web 2.0 sites, and for what? Just so you can get 50 links that amount to nothing because one of the ultra rich marketers buys a backlink from Cosmopolitan for $30,000 and outranks you with 1 backlink? Nah, that's not efficient link building
