Thursday, 9 February 2017

Best practices for back links

Back-links are important part of SEO-off page optimization.Content marketers right the content with the goal of providing back links to the site/page. Backlinks from good sites help in boosting the rank of the page however when the back links are not from the right site it can even negatively affect the ranking of the page.Content marketers needs to put effort to ensure that they are getting links from the right kind of site.
       Based on my experience will explain what are things to check for existing back links and new back links.


1.Check the relevancy:

How relevant is the site which providing you the backlinks. Do the site deals in the similar category in which your site deals with?If not then it is better to disavow the link.Below are example of good links and back links.Only exception are partner sites which can provide link to the partner sites

Your site
Back linked site
Link status
Car discussion forum
Car Review site
Good link
Real estate site
Mobile selling site
Bad link
Movie ticket selling site
Movie review site
Good link

2.Remove Directory links

Directories are basically sites which only has links such site are considered as SPAM sites. Backlinks from such site can negatively impact your site rankings as google considers links from such sites as low quality links

3.No follow Forum post

There are chances that  people may post on your site to build back links to their site.The post may be just spam which are done basically to promote their site links.In such cases ensure that your site page has "No follow" rel attributes which tells google not to pass any link  juice to the backlinked site.SPAM posts can negatively your site rankings .

4.Check Domain authority of site

Check the domain authority of the site which is providing the back links to your site.In case the domain authority is pretty low then it is necessary to check out how old the site is and the content of the site.In case if you feel that site is of low quality then disavow the links from that site

5.Avoid paid links

In the past it was practice to pay a site to get backlinks from them.Google now has become smart enough to identify such links and site.When backlinks are coming from paid site it is necessary to remove those links as google considers it as unnatural ways of getting links.

In order to know more about SEO check out SEO mistakes to be avoided
                                                                     
Also check out:Common SEO issues
                                                                   


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