Sign up for PayPal and start accepting credit card payments instantly.



Tuesday, August 7, 2007

The Importance of Backlinks

Useful Informations


I read somewhere recently about the importance of and the one way link concept. I'm still blur about it all. I did leave a comment on a paricular blog asking the goodness of the said BlogMaster to tell me more about backlinks and one way link, but till now I haven't receive any reply. Maybe she/he thought that she/he got no time to waste on me explaining what's backlinks is all about! After all she/he is an A-list blogger now!

After much , I found these article. This article will explain to you what a backlink is, why they are important, and what you can do to help gain them while avoiding getting into trouble with the Search Engines. And now I would like to share it with you these

If you've read anything about or studied Search Engine Optimization, you've come across the term "backlink" at least once. For those of you new to SEO, you may be wondering what a backlink is, and why they are important. Backlinks have become so important to the scope of Search Engine Optimization, that they have become some of the main building blocks to good SEO. In this article, we will explain to you what a backlink is, why they are important, and what you can do to help gain them while avoiding getting into trouble with the Search Engines.

What are "backlinks"? Backlinks are links that are directed towards your website. Also knows as Inbound links (IBL's). The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website. Backlinks are important for SEO because some search engines, especially Google, will give more credit to websites that have a good number of quality backlinks, and consider those websites more relevant than others in their results pages for a search query.

When search engines calculate the relevance of a site to a keyword, they consider the number of QUALITY inbound links to that site. So we should not be satisfied with merely getting inbound links, it is the quality of the inbound link that matters.
A search engine considers the content of the sites to determine the QUALITY of a link. When inbound links to your site come from other sites, and those sites have content related to your site, these inbound links are considered more relevant to your site. If inbound links are found on sites with unrelated content, they are considered less relevant. The higher the relevance of inbound links, the greater their quality.

For example, if a webmaster has a website about how to rescue orphaned kittens, and received a backlink from another website about kittens, then that would be more relevant in a search engine's assessment than say a link from a site about car racing. The more relevant the site is that is linking back to your website, the better the quality of the backlink.

Search engines want websites to have a level playing field, and look for natural links built slowly over time. While it is fairly easy to manipulate links on a web page to try to achieve a higher ranking, it is a lot harder to influence a search engine with external backlinks from other websites. This is also a reason why backlinks factor in so highly into a search engine's algorithm. Lately, however, a search engine's criteria for quality inbound links has gotten even tougher, thanks to unscrupulous webmasters trying to achieve these inbound links by deceptive or sneaky techniques, such as with hidden links, or automatically generated pages whose sole purpose is to provide inbound links to websites. These pages are called link farms, and they are not only disregarded by search engines, but linking to a link farm could get your site banned entirely.

Another reason to achieve quality backlinks is to entice visitors to come to your website. You can't build a website, and then expect that people will find your website without pointing the way. You will probably have to get the word out there about your site. One way webmasters got the word out used to be through reciprocal linking. Let's talk about reciprocal linking for a moment.

There is much discussion in these last few months about reciprocal linking. In the last Google update, reciprocal links were one of the targets of the search engine's latest filter. Many webmasters had agreed upon reciprocal link exchanges, in order to boost their site's rankings with the sheer number of inbound links. In a link exchange, one webmaster places a link on his website that points to another webmasters website, and vice versa. Many of these links were simply not relevant, and were just discounted. So while the irrelevant inbound link was ignored, the outbound links still got counted, diluting the relevancy score of many websites. This caused a great many websites to drop off the Google map.

We must be careful with our reciprocal links. There is a Google patent in the works that will deal with not only the popularity of the sites being linked to, but also how trustworthy a site is that you link to from your own website. This will mean that you could get into trouble with the search engine just for linking to a bad apple. We could begin preparing for this future change in the search engine algorithm by being choosier with which we exchange links right now. By choosing only relevant sites to link with, and sites that don't have tons of outbound links on a page, or sites that don't practice black-hat SEO techniques, we will have a better chance that our reciprocal links won't be discounted.

Many webmasters have more than one website. Sometimes these websites are related, sometimes they are not. You have to also be careful about interlinking multiple websites on the same IP. If you own seven related websites, then a link to each of those websites on a page could hurt you, as it may look like to a search engine that you are trying to do something fishy. Many webmasters have tried to manipulate backlinks in this way; and too many links to sites with the same IP address is referred to as backlink bombing.

One thing is certain: interlinking sites doesn't help you from a search engine standpoint. The only reason you may want to interlink your sites in the first place might be to provide your visitors with extra resources to visit. In this case, it would probably be okay to provide visitors with a link to another of your websites, but try to keep many instances of linking to the same IP address to a bare minimum. One or two links on a page here and there probably won't hurt you.

There are a few things to consider when beginning your backlink building campaign. It is helpful to keep track of your backlinks, to know which sites are linking back to you, and how the anchor text of the backlink incorporates keywords relating to your site. A tool to help you keep track of your backlinks is the Domain Stats Tool. This tool displays the backlinks of a domain in Google, Yahoo, and MSN. It will also tell you a few other details about your website, like your listings in the Open Directory, or DMOZ, from which Google regards backlinks highly important; Alexa traffic rank, and how many pages from your site that have been indexed, to name just a few.

Another tool to help you with your link building campaign is the Backlink Builder Tool. It is not enough just to have a large number of inbound links pointing to your site. Rather, you need to have a large number of QUALITY inbound links. This tool searches for websites that have a related theme to your website which are likely to add your link to their website. You specify a particular keyword or keyword phrase, and then the tool seeks out related sites for you. This helps to simplify your backlink building efforts by helping you create quality, relevant backlinks to your site, and making the job easier in the process.

There is another way to gain quality backlinks to your site, in addition to related site themes: anchor text. When a link incorporates a keyword into the text of the hyperlink, we call this quality anchor text. A link's anchor text may be one of the under-estimated resources a webmaster has. Instead of using words like "click here" which probably won't relate in any way to your website, using the words "Please visit our tips page for how to nurse an orphaned kitten" is a far better way to utilize a hyperlink. A good tool for helping you find your backlinks and what text is being used to link to your site is the Backlink Anchor Text Analysis Tool. If you find that your site is being linked to from another website, but the anchor text is not being utilized properly, you should request that the website change the anchor text to something incorporating relevant keywords. This will also help boost your quality backlinks score.

Building quality backlinks is extremely important to Search Engine Optimization, and because of their importance, it should be very high on your priority list in your SEO efforts. We hope you have a better understanding of why you need good quality inbound links to your site, and have a handle on a few helpful tools to gain those links.

These was copied and pasted from WebConfs.

------------------------------------------------------------

Here are the latest news brought to you by The News Room. You don't need no newspaper no more. Click on the news to know what's happening in USA. More news will be posted next. For now, ENJOY!



Subscribe to My Journey To Recovery

A candle loses nothing by sharing its flame.

2 Responses to "The Importance of Backlinks"

cheap yeezys said...

When individuals start to experience gains varies. At his clinic, Norton typically sees patients improve the most from the 5th to 7th session of their 12 week program. However, there's no universal standard for staying in therapy. Op Ed: I an immigrant doctor treating COVID 19 patients. Death isn my only fear right nowI am a kidney doctor in rural Pennsylvania, caring for COVID 19 patients and trying my best to survive despite limited supplies of personal protective equipment. I am also one of some 300,000 Indians in the United States on a H 1B work visa, waiting in line for a green card that would give me legal permanent residency.

"Cheap Air Force Ones", "Measure for Measure" will be on view this Thursday through October 22. Admission is free. But that doesn't mean you can't feast your eyes on a greased up six pack every now and then as long as you're doing it in Michael Kors Outlet Online the right place. First time around, it was my dark period. I retired the next year (2016, after two months in the Chicago White Sox minor system). I didn feel it anymore.

"Cheap Jordan Shoes Sale", I think you have to seize onto these Coach Outlet Clearance Sale moments to just remind us that our humanity is still there. Instead of a traditional chocolate bunny, maybe see if there is cocoa and sugar in the cupboard to make something different. Perhaps Mom or Dad can come up with a new Easter morning surprise and get just as big a pop from the kiddies..

"Yeezy Boost 350 Cheap", There are roles, and if your team chemistry doesn include the proper mix, you likely get squashed by the enemy team. This means that not everyone can be straight up damage dealers and go for kills, but, instead, you have to choose other roles like tanks and healers to create a team composition that works.Sure, it has its problems (like a terrible matchmaking system for competitive matches and some balance issues), but at its Ray Ban Sunglasses Near Me core,is great game. If you love teaming up with friends to take on other teams, it a great choice for scratching that competitive itch.Now,has blown up even more with 2018 introduction of the officialLeague, and Blizzard just introduced a brand new map, Blizzard World, and over 100 cosmetic additions.

yanmaneee said...

off white nike
lebron 16 shoes
supreme shirt
stone island
bape hoodie
supreme hoodie
curry 6
stephen curry shoes
kd13
goyard bags

Post a Comment

I loves to receive comments from everybody and I tried to make everything easier for my readers to comments. So please, be nice even though you totally disagree with me. No comment moderation and whatnot here. So, please respect the privileges given.

God's willing, all comments will be followed and replied.

p/s Please leave your URL so that I can follow it and leave comments on yours. No URL = No Comments. It is as simple as that. Thank you in advance.


~ ArahMan7

PS - Word verification has been enable. Sorry about that [Sept 3rd, 2013].



Back To Top

BlogMalaysia.com