Linkbuilding to development site

[aarondicks]

We're creating a new website for a client, and we have already started link building to the pages, including some deep landing pages.

Currently the site is blocked from being indexed - we're just concerned that there may be issues when we launch the site as there will be a lot of links pointing towards the pages from day 1.

Are we ok to continue link building?

[Dan-Petrovic]

What type of link building did you do?

[aarondicks]

Essentially to this point only low-medium quality links. Forum, blog, 'designed by...' site wide links and a couple of articles.

[Dan-Petrovic]

If I think about this a bit, in a natural environment there could be websites that are set to noindex yet they still accumulate links. That won't be a problem. If you suddenly lift noindex and votes start counting for your position your site still start getting ranked, however I don't think it will absolutely shoot up. As far as too many links too quickly goes it's still a low risk, however, I would not waste time building links the way you do now. There are plenty of solid "should have" links anyway in each industry - so to stay safe I would focus on that before the site goes public.

[aarondicks]

Yeah we've got our real list of links at the ready for launch, just laying some ground work lower quality stuff to diversify the link profile.

Link bait's at the ready too!

Thanks Dejan SEO