What you need to know about link building
We all know link building is a vital part of your search engine optimization strategy. But unfortunately, there are a lot of marketers out there who believe their strategy is just are not working. The most common problem out there is the earned links is not giving the site enough authority.
First of all, let’s define what link building is. It is the process of getting links from other websites pointing back to your own. It is a way for readers to navigate through the pages online. In addition, search engines crawl the web and it even crawls links between entire websites. Marketers working in this area know there are many ways to build links. Not all techniques are created equal therefore some are harder to accomplish than others. Link building is the task that is the hardest to accomplish in search engine optimization. The key to doing this better than competitors is to understand how to build high quality links.
Before diving into trying to build high authority links, it is vital to understand just how a link is created. Links start out with an “a” to tell search engines that a link to something else is about to follow. It is then followed by an “href” followed by the URL the link is pointing to. When you click on a link, it has generally compelled you to click on it since it is content that would interest you. This is the part of the link that readers will see such as the title of the article. The link then ends with another “a”.
The reasons there are two essential ways search engines use links. They are to discover new web pages and to help figure out which position a page should rank. Search engines crawl the webpages frequently to look at the content place on the webpages and add it to the their indexes. It is how they decide whether it is good enough to rank higher in the search results or not.
Another aspect search engines look at are the number of links pointing back to the site. The general idea is the more high quality and high domain sites link back to a site, the better it will rank. This is one of the key differentiators between Google and the other search engines back in the day. If you think about it, when a site links back to another, it is giving it a vote of confidence that it is something to be looked at as a great resource.
