Good Backlinks Improve Website Ranking
What are Backlinks?
Backlinks are links on other websites pointing at your website. Without adequate links pointing at your website it will likely never achieve higher keyword ranking.Good Backlinks Improve Website Ranking
Website ranking involves more than just putting your website online. The old addage, "Build it and they will come" is no longer true. In order to find good backlinks you need to not only have quality content on your website but also focus on getting good backlinks from relevant websites.Also see Search Engine Optimization TipsS for more linking ideas.
What are Quality Backlinks?
- Your link on a site with high PR (page rank)
- Your link on a page with few other links
- Your link within the content of the page (not the footer or sidebars)
- A link from a relevant site
An occasional, relevant link trade is ok and having to buy a link in Yahoo directory or another directory that is human reviewed where you have to pay for the review (and not the submission) is OK, but anything in exess can cause you problems with your ranking in Google because they can tell when link gathering is not normal as it keeps a record of your link profile which affects your trust ranking.
Google is having to do this due to too many finding some new trick that helps their keyword rank (like hidden text) and then everyone else follows suit and then Google has to clamp down on that practice — until next time someone comes up with a "bright idea" to boost their ranking.
So anything you do to try and manipulate your rank in Google can draw a red flag and your site could be banned, penalized or have your keyword rank filtered out, i.e., you won't be able to rank for anything no matter what you do.
Best Linking Practice
The best, and easiest, method to gather links is to provide something on your website that people will want to link to, i.e., if you build bridges offer free bridge building plans, if you sell dessert products offer free recipies, if you provide a service write up a FAQ about your service, etc. On LWD, I provide a lot of HTML tips, Css Tips, graphics tutorials and articles on keyword ranking and other topics.Finding Backlinks For Your Website
Google uses age of the site, backlinks, social networking as well as PR to rank sites (along with many other factors) so, unless you want to PayPerClick for the life of the site, you need to gather a lot of links and write a lot of content to get ranking as high as possible as it's doubtful that your competitors will be sitting still and doing nothing.- Find friends, businesses associates, individuals, or organizations
who are willing to link to your website as soon as it's online, then
you won't need to submit to search engines because the search engines
can find your link on a site they have indexed already. Some of them may
require a link trade but try to get mostly one-way links.
- Relevant Links: Look for websites focused on what your
site offers but have a different focus, i.e., submit to a gardening site
if you sell garden tools.
- Competitors Links: Check to see where your competitors are getting their links and try and submit your website there also.
- Find Directories in Your Own Niche Submit to directories
in your own niche, i.e., if you sell or offer information about
vitamins then look for directories focused on health products. However
Google has demoted directory links so don't put a lot of focus on these.
- Free Submission Directories If you aim for free
submissions from directories you may need to request about 10 times as
many backlinks as you actually need as very few free links are accepted
by directories claiming to accept free submissions. They do this so they
won't be penalized for only offering paid links. When submitting,
change your anchor text (title of your site) frequently so there is a
wide variety of keywords to rank for, however you will probably have to
pay for anything other than your official site name.
- Write Articles Write quality articles related to the
focus of your website and submit to other sites that accept guest
writers. Provide a link within the article to your site related to the
focus in the article -- not necessarily your home page. Do NOT post the
same article on your own website or you may be penalized for duplicate
content.
- Submit Press Releases Only submit press releases when
you have a valid reason for one--any new development on your site or an
original focus with your products that the customers on the press
release will be interested in.
- Blogging Post messages in blogs related to the topic of
your site with a link to your website within the post where appropriate.
Try to get links that are NOT "no followed" but even those will help
your rank a little bit due to your site being mentioned (it's called a
citation).
- Participate in Forums Find forums related to your
website's focus and post often so you will get noticed and build up
trust so people will click on the link in your profile or signature and
possibly link to your site from their own site or in other forums
showing where they found valuable information. Most forums now put a
rel="nofollow" on all outgoing links so this may not benefit you with
ranking but may bring some traffic.
How Many Backlinks is Enough?
That depends on your major keywords. Are they popular? If so, you will have a struggle to beat your competition and may have to resort to PayPerClick along with backlinks.If very few websites advertise what you offer then you may not need very many backlinks to rank high in the search engines but your traffic may still be minimal because of your site being so specialized. In that case diversify and add more information.
Your backlinks need to be replenished each year because some sites along with their backlinks go offline. Your competitors are probably eagerly seeking more backlinks to outrank you so unless you actively seek more backlinks each year your rank may drop.
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