Why you need backlinks?
Now- a-days link building is the hottest topic in SEO. Everyone seems so desperate for getting backlinks to their sites. Link building is a long, continuous and time consuming process. It takes lots of resources and effort to have the required number of quality backlinks. And if you outsource the whole link building campaign, it could be expensive as well.
But why it is so important to have backlinks? After all it’s site quality and service provided that matters to users. Is the entire link building process is merely for search engines or it has any other use as well? Read more
Number of backlinks you need for PR 7
Once you initiate the process of building backlinks for your new site, probably you want to know where it all ends. Like many webmasters, you must be looking for page rank 3, 4 or even more and some good amount of traffic. Right?
But do you know how many backlinks it takes to get a good page rank?
Ok, let me explain it you with an example. Let’s say you got two sites:
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The first step in Link Building
The most common question I am asked from people new to link building is-
What should be the first step to build links?
Today, when thousands of websites are popping ever day, search engines are the most important and natural way of getting traffic to your site. In fact the real motivation of executing link-building campaign is getting higher ranking and position in search engines.
At the time you launch your website, Google or any other search engine does not know about it. After all someone has to tell these search engines about your new website. You can start long and time-consuming link building process by simply adding your website’s URL in Google and Yahoo. Read more
Nofollow is a failure
Nofollow is a non-standard html tag, proposed by Google, back in 2005. The tag was supposed to stop spamming on search engines by not following spam links. But on the contrary nothing has changed. Spammers are still posting their links in blog comments, forums or social network sites. And this tag proved to be a failure.
How search engines treat nofollow?
Despite of having support for nofollow tag by almost all big search engines, the exact interpretation of the nofollow tag varies from search engine to search engine.
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Link building basics
In the early times of internet, search engines used to index website on the basis of their Meta content and keywords. At that time, it was so easy to get listed on the first page of search result. But after Google came into being, things become complex for webmasters.
Now-a-days, most of the search engines rely on complex mathematical algorithms to list websites against keywords. These algorithms also consider quantity and quality of backlinks to sites as an important factor for ranking them.
What are backlinks?
Backlinks are simple links to your website or page from some other website. Backlinks are also called as inbound links, inward links, incoming links and in-links. Read more