What Is Link Building All about?
Link
building is the process of building content relevant quality links to your
business site, both internally and externally so as to help your site gain
higher rankings on search engines and drive more customer traffic to generate
greater leads. Link building is one of the best and most commonly used SEOstrategies to market business Websites.
A few
attributes are must to be considered while you try to get links from a certain
Web page for your site. There are certain factors that matter in backlinking,
and every SEO must be aware of these factors:
v Page rank - Higher the
page rank, better is the result!
v Content relevance - The content
on the page from which you are trying to get the link must be relevant in order
to get the maximum value to your link
v Overall quality of the content - Greater the
number of quality backlinks, higher is the page rank on search engines!
Usefulness of the content, the time that readers spend on your site for
reading, and is the content able to engage people well are the three key
factors that decide the content's quality
v Anchor text and title - The
appropriate anchor text and title show what your link is about!
v Link placement - Where you
place your link matters a lot! Usually, it's better to put the link in headers
or upper body of the content on the Web page
v Outbound or external links - Too many
external links help the least!
v Good CTR - Higher the
click-through-rate, better the results!
v Ability to draw traffic - Make sure
that the Web page from which you are trying to get the link has the ability to
draw a lot of traffic because the same traffic would be able to visit your link
too
It is
advisable to make use of all these factors in a positive way while actually
building links to your site. You can either approach organic (natural) link
building or manipulative (artificial) link building.
Artificial link building gets you
more links without going through any human interaction. This one is an easier
approach that demands relatively lesser investment of time and money.
Let's see what artificial link building
involves:
ü Creating blogs in Web 2.0 and blogging
Websites
ü Article submission
ü Blog commenting
ü Directory listing
ü Forum posting
ü Paid links and advertising
ü Reciprocal linking or link exchange
On the
contrary, organic link building
involves dealing with human interactions and thus, getting links from this
method is quite a tougher task. It also demands more time and financial
investment.
Let's see what this organic link building
involves:
ü Broken link building - Broken outbound links
ü Link baiting - Best links in return to the
least efforts
ü Guest posting - The most common natural way
to build backlinks to your site
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