What are Backlinks, What are advantages of Backlinks, How to get Backlinks
What are Backlinks?
Backlinks are the hyperlinks that point
towards your blog/ website from other domains all around the web. These are one of
the key factors when it comes to search engine optimization (SEO) and help
your site to achieve a higher rank on search engine result pages (SERP). Simply
the more high quality links pointing back to your blog/ website, the search
engines will consider your page more popular and also help your site rank
higher on Google, Bing, Yahoo and all other search engines.
The search engines treat backlinks as votes
for your site. Any link from "page 1" to "page 2" is considered
as a positive vote, by "page 1", for "page 2". Therefore in
the eyes of a search engine, the more links a site has pointing to it, the more
popular and valuable it must be to readers.
Search engine algorithms will also factor the
popularity, reliability and relevancy of the site providing the backlink. It is
important to have backlinks from quality sites, and those backlinks should be
contextual. For example, you site is about web development, and links from other
niche sites about news pointing to your site will be of no use for search
engines. Your goal should be to get backlinks from authoritative and most relevant blogs/ sites to get higher page
ranking.
Advantages of Backlinks in SEO:
Now
lets me highlight few advantages of backlinks:-
For faster Indexing
Backlinks help search engine bots
discover links to your site and crawl your site effectively.
Especially for a new website, it is very
important to get quality backlinks as they help in the more rapidly discovery
and indexing of your site by search engines.
To improve Organic Ranking
Backlinks help in getting better
search engine rankings. Any of your content getting organic links from other
sites, that content will get naturally higher rank with search engines. Your
goal should be to create links to individual pages/ posts along with those
leading to your homepage.
To Get Referral Traffic
The other major benefit to having backlink is
all the free referral traffic to your site. Your backlink will naturally be spread
all around the web across many domains and topics, resulting in a steady flow
of users coming to your site.
How to start to get backlinks:
Un-till now I have briefed term
Backlink and its importance for any blog/ website. You may get backlink by adopting the following methods. It is important to keep in mind about
backlink for SEO is that it is not the number
of backlinks , but rather the quality of Bcklinks.
Let’s now learn a few simple
techniques for generating backlinks to your blog/ site?
By Writing Awesome Posts
Although writing awesome post
requires knowledge, proper research and practical examples. But, this is the
best and simplest way to get backlinks for your blog. An awesome post, will
attract the people and they will share it with list of friends.
By Commenting on other Blogs or Sites
Comments are also an excellent,
easy, and free way to get backlinks. Start commenting on do-follow forums and
do-follow blogs especially related to your blog or site. Although, no-follow
links will not effect in SEO ranking, but start commenting on any blog, and you
will surely benefit from some good link juice.
Commenting helps you to get solid one-way backlinks as well
as more traffic and better search engine visibility. Give good comments
and avoid spamming!
By submitting blog / site to web directories
Submitting your blog/ site to web
directories is another easy way to get backlinks.
Although, this method is not famous these days because
finding a legal web directory is not easy. Avoid those web directories that ask
you to enterchange the backlink by createing a backlink to their website to get
your website into their directory.
Conclusion:-
I hope this post will help you to understand the basics of
backlink in SEO, and its advantages.
Now, it’s your time to start working
on getting backlink for your blog/ website.
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