sound linking plan?

[shrek]

As I approach the launch of a large site I am tying to think to myself the best way to obtain backlinks that looks 100% natural and thus yields the most benefit in the eyes of SE's.
In the past I have primarily started sites with directory links only. However, I do not believe this is the proper approach.
I was planning on a split of:

50% directory links, 30-40% one way from related sites and around 10-20% reciprocal. What do you think?

I was planning on analyzing the number of links to competitors' sites against how long their sites have been up and work from there. Does this sound like a sound link building plan?

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[kaitlyn]

shrek
Hmm.. i'd say directory links are playing too large a role in your mix. i think 80/20 is just the right kind of mix.

80% non-directory, 20% directory
80% non-reciprocal, 20% reciprocal
80% on-topic, 20% off-topic
so on.......

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[shrek]

THANX BUDDY, please answer this
Say I have 50 solid directories that are on my list to submit to but my problem is that I am not trying to get my homepage to rank, but yet different subdirectories. I have about 10 subdirectories each of them needs their own unique IBL's with diff. anchor text.
How should I utilize these directories to link to my various subdirs? Obviously I don't want all 50 directories linking to all 10 subdirs right? Although if a directory naturally liked my site as a whole they might very well link to many of my interior pages. -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --

[kaitlyn]

shrek
You're usually going to be subject to the preferences of that directory's editors, and I don't see a lot of cases where directories are linking to pages other than a site's homepage. Still, a high ranking homepage can pass a lot of juice to its subpages.
One other approach would be to use article directories, <snip> coz they let you specify your own signature line, where you can link to any page you like using any anchor text you like.
The labourious part is that you have to write some articles.

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[007]

I think the percentage approach will not work because the actual mix may be a moving target. What i mean is that the search engines are supposedly looking at statistics of what passes for normal and what appears spammy. Obviously those stats may look different for different industries.
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