How link building helps your SEO strategy
by Rumzz Bajwa Content MarketerIn this digital age,
merely having online presence either by creating social media accounts and
website or producing digital contents is not enough. For the business to widen
its scope and reach more audience, it has to utilize all the available
resources.
One of the uprising
online strategies is the Search Engine Optimization popularly known as SEO. It “is
the process of getting your business’s website ranked by major search engines
such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing.” This process helps your website to be easily
discover by being one of the highest or most recommended results by this search
engines. To achieve better outcome, you can use link buildings to help your SEO
strategy.
Link building in simplest term is the process of getting other sites to hyperlink to your website. Nowadays, the ranks of the results by the search engines are no longer based on webpage content. Ranks are now established by how many people are linked to that page. It is further effective by having high-quality links. Linking to popular and trusted links does it. Though it may sound difficult, getting assistance is worthwhile.
It is said that link
building is the most important tactic in your SEO
strategy. How so? Links are signal to any search engine that your site has
quality resources and worthy of citation. Thus, the site with more backlinks
gains higher search ranks.
For example, your
business is selling solar power generator and you have a website as one of the
ways of promoting it. You are now then competing with thousands of solar power
generator manufacturer. Link popularity is one of the determining factors in
ranking search results. If your site has higher link popularity, meaning,
getting backlinks from many sites, your site have the higher chance to land in
the first page of the search result. However, link popularity is not only about
the number of backlinks. It is also measured by how trusted the linking pages
are. It means that getting backlinks by trusted and popular sites are better
than numerous but less trusted sites.
Beside from boosting
SEO ranking, link building is also helpful in business in other ways.
1. Build relationship. Though the primary goal in reaching out to
other business is to build links, it also gives you the opportunity to
establish a mutually beneficial long-term relationship.
2. Referral business. If you are linked to strong sites, which are
frequently visited at, it improves the traffic in your site and ranking. More
importantly, it can increase your sales.
3. Brand building. By linking to sites that have an authority and
trusted, it can strengthen your brand. Getting backlinks mean that your brand
is good that’s why many people or sites are recommending you.
Link building takes
time and effort but is surely pays off.
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