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BACKLINKS - WHAT ARE THEY AND WHY ARE THEY IMPORTANT

By: Bob Rauch


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A backlink is a link that points to your website from another domain. Think of it as a "link" pointing "back" to you. Backlinks are an important SEO tool. Links pointing to your website from various places around the internet are an essential means for people browsing around the internet to find your website. They are also an important means for search engines to find your website. Perhaps more importantly, they are one of the important methods that search engines use to rank your website for determine the relevance of your website for where it should be listed when people search on Google and other search engines using your key words or key terms.

BOTTOM LINE: The more backlinks you have pointing to your website, the better your site will perform on the search engines and the more people you will have visiting your website.

BACKLINK QUALITY - HOW YOU CAN MAKE THE BEST LINKS

Another important consideration is the quality of backlinks that point to your website. The relevance of the domain the link is hosted on to the subject of your website is significant. If your website is about cars, then it is good to find plenty of backlinks to your site that are hosted on website domains having to do with cars. Another quality measure is the construction of the link. The link should be an "anchor" link or "text" link using one of your key terms as the hyperlink. Additionally, the ranking of the website domain and the website page your link is hosted are important.

HOW DO YOU GET THE BEST BACKLINKS?

One effective but very time consuming method of creating backlinks is to visit hundreds or thousands of website directories and post an entry on each one for your website manually constructing the text or anchor link back to your site. This ensures your links are well constructed. However, this method requires a great deal of time and effort.

WHERE SHOULD BACKLINKS BE FOUND?

For best results, Backlinks should be constructed inside bona fide blog posts, not in the footer or blogroll, but in the very body of the real, unique blog post. This is the most safe way to build one way links, because this gives unique content to the visitors in the blog posts and search engines will always welcome it. Search engines were fashioned to help people find quality information in the Internet rather than short directory listings. Therefore, the better the content and the more relevant the content surrounding the backlink, the better your results will be.

BACKLINK BREAKTHROUGH - VIRAL BACKLINKS

Today there is a much better and easier method to create hundreds or even thousands of high quality backlinks to your website. Still, it is not without some effort. But, the effectiveness is profound. The term "viral" in "viral backlinks" means that you will receive some help to magnify your own efforts.

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Bob Rauch Jr. is contributing editor of Search-Engine-Submitter.com which provides resources to easily create an unlimited quantity of free backlinks to your website.

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