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This is your regular content writer and active SEO enthusiast again. Allow me to take you back to the beginning phases of my entrepreneurial endeavors. Starting an effective internet business was the plan , as it did many others. But as time passed, I realized that creating a strong online presence required more than just a visually good website and catchy taglines; it also required careful backlinking. Today I’ll go deep into backlinks, an SEO practice that is ver crucial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although they may appear to be too technical, backlinks are quite easy. These are simply hyperlinks from other websites that point to your own. Consider them as virtual votes of confidence. The more high-quality backlinks your website has, the more search engines, including Google, will see it as a reputable and valuable resource. And believe me when I say that your firm will benefit immensely from this. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key Takeaways<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Image source<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n First, let’s go over the “what” of backlinks before we get into the “why” and “how”. Because we can all acknowledge that technical language can be confusing at times, assume you own a great neighborhood bakery that is well-known for its exquisite blueberry muffins. When a food blogger visits your bakery, she immediately falls in love with your egg muffins (naturally!) and posts a glowing review with a link to your bakery’s website on her blog. It is a backlink, that link! It’s the food blogger endorsing your bakery and directing their readers\u2014potential customers\u2014your way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just like, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin created Google in 1995, they recognized that while current search engines such as Yahoo could help customers locate relevant websites, they couldn’t discern which results were high quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Page and Brin, citations have long been considered a proxy for academic excellence. In other words, a citation suggests that the original work is credible and noteworthy enough to be referred. So, when scholars publish a study, its success is judged in part by how many times other researchers cite it in later work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As a result, Google developed its search engine using backlinks, which are the online version of citations and indicate higher quality websites with more of them. Other search engines adopted a similar strategy. Although the criteria used by search engines to evaluate sites have evolved since then, backlinks remain a vital component of high-quality websites and are essential to success in search engine optimization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, you should optimize your e-commerce website so that potential customers may find you, as search engines identify which websites are most relevant for people looking for specific keywords and then display the results in order of their relevancy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Image source<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to search engines, not all backlinks are equal. Although backlinks may not always contribute to your quality rating, they are similar to a vote of confidence from another website. Users who use spam or fraudulent ways to obtain backlinks in an attempt to manipulate the system are blocked by search engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To judge the quality of a website based on its link profile, search engines such as Google categorize links into the four following categories: I will briefly discuss each and its impact on your website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow links are common links that connect websites. They get their names from crawlers tracking them and reporting on their worth. A tennis blogger, for example, may link to another golf blog on their “Partners” page or to one of their favorite golf stores in a blog post. This means that search engines rely on links linking to a website to determine its reliability and authority, which is vital for SEO. (If HTML or crawlers do not indicate otherwise, a link is considered to be followed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Websites can add a nofollow HTML code to their external links. This code expressly informs the crawler that the website does not endorse the site to which it is linked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are several reasons why you might do this. Forums and social media sites cannot regulate what their users share, therefore they nofollow their connections. So, blogs implement nofollow links in their comment sections to prevent spam sites from commenting with links to improve Google relevance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There are numerous reasons why one website could pay another for a backlink, including sponsored editorial content, adverts, and paid endorsements. In these circumstances, search engines want you to include a sponsored tag with your links, similar to nofollow. This is because it informs search engines that there is a business relationship<\/a> involved in the link, thus urging them to dismiss it. Also, search engines penalize sites with untagged sponsored links by lowering their ranking places.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Guest post backlinks are backlinks that you get by authoring and publishing material on other websites, usually in your field or sector. They boost your website’s credibility and importance in your industry, providing SEO value while also delivering targeted traffic. So, select respectable websites for guest posting, and make sure your work is well-researched and adds value to the host site’s readership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An image backlink is a linkable image (credited) to a website or page. Why should I care about image backlinks? According to a Semrush analysis, webpages with graphics receive 555% more high-quality backlinks. Here are the most popular types of images that tend to receive backlinks passively: <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Understanding Backlinks: The Building Blocks of SEO<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Types of SEO Backlinks<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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#1. Follow links<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
#2. Nofollow Links<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
#3. Sponsored Links<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
#4. Guest Post Backlinks<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
#5: Image Backlinks<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n