Online Marketing
All You Need To Know About Link Building
Link building in general is the process of building links for your website. It is considered to play a vital role in Search Engine Optimization purposes. Most website owners desiring to advertise their sites with SEO in their minds think that quality backlinks will lead to better traffic generation, thus, making their best effort in link building campaigns.
The overall task in link building requires a good amount of time and proper application of strategic moves that is why some webmasters wanting to accomplish more is a lesser span of time resort try their best to find shortcut alternatives that often lead to some deceitful methods such as cloaking or redirecting and combining hidden content in their client’s web pages. For this reason, search engines don’t put more value to the number of links directed to a website, but rather on the quality of links produced and cite their opinion if a website is truly relevant.
A blog site or any website is famous when they have adequate number of inbound links coming from relevant websites. You might ask who are relevant to your website in particular. Well, these sites are mostly rich in content, genuine and belong to the same concept like your site. So, be sure to weigh if those links coming from their site are indeed applicable to your site and can you really benefit from their links.
For you to fully understand the relevancy of link building motives, below are some of their awesome benefits.
- Increase online visibility to your blog or website when searched.
- If your site is linked with top quality links, then you will be categorized as an important or related resource. This can be achieved through the creation of quality or rich content.
- Link building plays a significant phase of SEO.
- Good source of traffic generation when linked to quality websites.
Now, that you have a clearer view of link building’s overall advantages to your site, here are some methods where you can apply link building:
- Directory submission
- Blog commenting
- Making templates
- Creating WordPress plugin
- Following social bookmarking sites
These are just some of the techniques that you can apply. Remember as well that having a particular niche website is already a plus factor and a step closer to creating quality link building. I do hope you learned some valuable insights from this topic.
As with other link building purposes, all you need is willingness to do hard work and patience to wait as you create your link building slowly, but surely to the right direction—getting relevant links in the end. Feel free to share your own strategies to link building. They might turn out to be very useful and productive to anybody’s intention of acquiring quality links back to their websites.
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TashWordMay 14, 2012 at 12:50 pm
You can actively work at getting links to your site of course (e.g. putting your site into directories) and you can attract links to your site (e.g. other blogs and sites citing you as a reference ). Both can be useful in helping people find you and making search engines rank you better, but i think the second category carries more weight and it can only come (legitimately) through quality content on your site in the first place.
I find guest blogging is good for bringing in links and you can do that quite strategically or aim at many links to suit your needs.
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WeeFiMay 16, 2012 at 6:00 pm
I find that commenting on blogs with similar content as your own blog is one of the best SEO methods there is.
I also use some other websites to post articles about my blog in order to gain some traffic, and help myself SEO.
Have you ever heard of the website Triond.com?
Its a website where you are paid to post articles. I do not really care about the small amount of money I make form the articles that were posted, but the articles are posted on PR3 or higher websites with relevant content which really helps to SEO.
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LinxMay 17, 2012 at 12:44 am
There are also companies and even individuals that will help you with building your linking system. I am not sure how valid and reliable these services are…I am actively looking into that now. It may be worth it, if done properly. I am concerned about them doing dodgy scamming.
I do think that there are legit services of this sort out there though. Just have to find them. I have not done enough link building at all. Not yet.
Thank you for another great and informative article. One that made me realize that I need to work on this aspect for sure.
akanbiJuly 10, 2012 at 4:54 pm
I have just attended a number of webinars on linkbuilding. I really want to take advantage of the things that they have pointed out in this article, such as seo optimization. My website is optimized but I do not have those inbound links from prestigious sites yet. I can totally see the payoff.
LauraJuly 17, 2012 at 1:41 am
I know that some bloggers I know use contests to make people link to their blog.
For example “if you write an article on your blog to talk about the contest on your blog and post a link to my blog, you will be able to participate to a draw to win X, Y or Z”
I am not sure I like that technique to be honest, but it does exist
BreakfreeJuly 17, 2012 at 5:59 am
I am really pleased with this article because I learnt a lot from it and now I have an idea on how to properly build links strategically , that can redirect to my posts.
pinklilyJuly 24, 2012 at 3:50 pm
This is helpful for novice writer or blogger like me. Since it is difficult to ask Google share its audience on your link, it is always necessary to write good quality articles with striking keywords. Directory submission is the most common method to earn exposure of your website. I know some people who use Facebook and Twitter accounts to post their links through their website. Although it doesn’t earn that much views, but it helps.
ARipenedPotatoJuly 25, 2012 at 5:19 am
I think this article provides some good basics for a young blogger. I don’t think most writers realize how many options they have for sharing their work, or ensuring that their work is seen by the most people; this article creates a plan to spread the word more easily.
youtubedominationJuly 25, 2012 at 2:36 pm
In the first paragraph, it would appear that you are questioning if link building and backlinks actually lead to better traffic generation. Can you elaborate on that?
Has anybody actually seen noticeable increases in traffic or leads.
DazAugust 30, 2012 at 9:24 am
There is certainly a correlation between the number and quality of inbound links and your search engine position for keywords, a lot of weight used to be on the href of your link to help with specific keywords but this seems to have faded with Google’s latest updates.
As for if this leads to an increase in traffic, again there have been a number of studies and reports produced on the % of traffic you get for each place on the google search top 10 and the higher up the rank you are the better share you get of the search engine traffic.
ladyjessicaAugust 6, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Thanks for the advice! I’m pretty new to blogging and I really need all of the help I can get. At the moment I’m just using Facebook. Twitter, Pinterest and we[heart]it, as well as trying to be really specific with my search keywords. I’m adding the odd link to reddit.com as well, which is incidentally where most of my traffic comes from. I think that Pinterest and the keywords are slowly helping to improve my SEO as I seem to be getting more and more hits from Google. Hopefully if I can do some link building as well, I will start to see a regular (albeit, small) income from my blog!
gerkmeisterSeptember 4, 2012 at 8:42 am
I’ve had some luck getting page one google ranking for less competative three word plus keyword phrases. Generally, when I make a post or put up a page, I’ll ping it, submit to Feedagg, Stumble it, Digg it, Reddit it, Delicious it, submit to SocialAdr to get 200 social bookmarking links over time (for free). I’ll make a couple videos and link back. Tweet it, Pin it and post link to Facebook. Then I’ll write some articles and submit to directories, all linking back to the site/post. I also create backlinks to the videos and articles that are linking back to the site. I’m not sure I know what I’m doing yet, but I am getting results, traffic and some sales.
KennyKSeptember 11, 2012 at 9:50 am
If you have a blog, one of the things that I would definitely recommend is submitting a few articles (free) on big sites, giving people something to read and get interested in. Then link to other articles on your blog/site. Guest writing can also work good, if you provide a quality article.
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johnthomas1433November 22, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Actually link building is not the process of building links. Its simply the process by which we can build quality links. Building too much crappy links to our website doesn’t bring much of a difference in the rankings, but it does make the link building process look like a natural process. That’s the only advantage.
TashWordNovember 27, 2012 at 10:20 pm
I agree with johnthomas1433 in that the ideal is quality links (which means relevant sites with creidbility not just junky sites about unrelated topics) to your site.
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