Every businessman wants his or her website to be in the top searches of Google. But this is a herculean task. Only well structured and well-written content for the readers cannot make it to the top searches. Several other unknown processes are involved for a better position in Search Engine Result Pages.
Different tasks work like pieces of a puzzle. One of these important tasks is getting good backlinks. A backlink plays an important in building a website’s authority.
What are backlinks?
In a layman’s language, these are the links on someone else’s website that direct the user to your website. It is more like how many websites recommend your website. It is an indication of the importance and popularity of your website.
Understand how a link is created.
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Starting of the link tag
The first “a” mentioned in the link above stands for the anchor tag.
The referral location
“href” stands for “hyperlink referral”. The domain name of the linked website is mentioned after “href”.
The anchor text
It is the visible text on the page that is hyperlinked. When you will click on this text, you will be directed to a different website.
The link tag closure
The “” in the end depicts the closure of the link tag.
Backlinks are very important for Authority building
If your website has a large number of backlinks, it means that a large number of websites rely on your contnet. There are many news websites that mentions other websites as their source and give them a backlink. BBC is an authority domain because a lot of news websites use BBC’s news stories and give them credit.
If you write content that is real, which is trusted and proven, different websites will refer to it and you will get backlinks without even approaching some other websites.
Improves traffic to your website
Getting backlinks not only helps in improving the rankings of your website, but it also helps you get more and more traffic. Think about it. What if you get a backlink to a website with a huge amount of traffic? There are a lot of chances of diversion of the traffic to your website.
However, here also, relevancy plays a major role. Not only of the website but also the content of the page where the link to your website is appearing. Will a person reading about mental health immediately switch to something about food processing? Probably yes, but the chances are very low.
Relationship building
When you indulge in link building, you get to know about different websites that are related to your industry. You approach them for a link exchange or a guest post. After that, you provide them with the content they had asked for and in return, your website gets a backlink.
Sometimes, websites agree on mutual promotions that cater to the purpose of both websites. You benefit their business and vice-versa.
SEO purpose is one aspect but the link building process can actually help you build good relations with the influencers of your industry. These relations can help you immensely in your business.
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