Creating good backlinks to your website will help to generate traffic, increase rankings in the search engines for your site, and provide you with, what is the most important factor of them all, more subscriptions to your newsletters and mailing lists which in turn equate to many more sales. But, what exactly are backlinks and how do they actually work?
Backlinks are quite often described as votes for your site. If it helps, you can compare it as being similar to how American Idol works, the more votes a contestant gets, the better it is for them and the more they continue to get will meen that they eventually have the chance to win. The same applies to your websites, the more people that like your website, the more popular it becomes and the more beneficial to searchers it is deemed by the search engies who will rank your site higher because of this.
However, there is something that you need to know, not every link will get you the results that you want; therefore, it is crucial that you go about creating the best backlinks possible, these are generally from locations that are in the same niche as your site and that carry 'authority' in the eyes of the search engines.
If you create a link on a site that has nothing to do with your niche then you will not generate the levels of traffic that would be possible if it was on a topic related site; because it is very unlikely that a person visiting a fashion blog will not be interested in your mechanic site; therefore it is vital that you create backlinks where they are most beneficial.
Building good, quality backlinks does not happen overnight and there are no shortcuts when building links. When you start building backlinks, you need to know that it should be in the form of a campaign and that there are seven essential things that you should know when building good backlinks for your site.
Here are the Top 7 essential things to know that will eventually lead to owning a successful site:
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