What is a Quality Backlink? 5
Before you run off and start plugging your link halfway across the internet on every semi-related website you come across, take some time and examine the internet real estate where you are going to be placing a gateway to your own website. Whenever I place a backlink, I always make sure to run through a series of criteria, first.
1. Quality Backlinks are RELEVANT Backlinks
Make sure the page where your backlink will be displayed is in the same niche as your website! Why link to your website selling car parts from a blog that reviews baby diapers? It makes no sense at all! The more relevant the link, the higher your position in the search engine results pages. Hopefully the page is keyword rich and highly ranked already, which brings me to my next criteria.
2. Quality Backlinks are from RESPECTED and RANKED websites.
If the website that is displaying your backlink ranks highly for the keywords or keyphrases you are after, chances are they are an authority website with some steady traffic. Backlinks from these authority figures will increase interest in your own website. I try to get build backlinks with websites that are in the top two hundred results for my search criteria.
3. Quality Backlinks contain your TARGETED KEYWORDS or KEYPHRASE
Last but not least, when submitting your link, don’t forget to target your anchor text! Do NOT have your link saying “Click here to go to ____________” … bury your anchor within a catchy, keyword rich paragraph or sentence. For example: “Internet marketing & seo techniques are a necessity in promoting your brand and increasing traffic.” That sentence gives opportunity to give myself three different relevant, keyword rich backlinks.
So, make sure to take a step back and examine the website your about to place your link before you do so. Just don’t take over my keywords!
Backlinks are the best way to improve traffic to your website and increase your search engine popularity.
Another way of determining how valuable or strong a backlink would be is by looking at the title of the page you want a link on.
if the title of the page you want a link on has keywords in it related to, or the same as, the keywords you are trying to target then it is a stronger link than one that is unrelated.
One main thing i want to mention is that – Getting 100 quality backlinks is better than non-quality 10000 backlinks.
People sometimes go for just the number, which is not of much importance for Google.
Another helpful post. I’m just really developing this sense of establishing quality backlinks. Now I make a concerted effort.
These are small idiosyncrasies that you just don’t know when you begin blogging, thereby elongating your rise in search engines.
I totally agree. If you get to build your backlinks, no matter what strategy you would use and no matter what master Google would have to say about it, you should always go for quality.