White Hat SEO Link Building Tips
Link Building MUSTs
White Hat SEO Link Building Tips – Developing a well optimized website is only half of the SEO battle. The next step is to implement an ongoing link building campaign to establish trust with the search engines and target audience members over time.
In order to build a quality link portfolio, you must:
Have a Diverse Approach
There are plenty of sources of links out there, and it’s important to incorporate as many relevant sites into the mix as possible. Use link building tactics like blogging, blog commenting, guest blog posting, article marketing, press release distribution, directory submission, social networking, and video marketing. Relying too heavily on one or two strategies leaves a website vulnerable to search engine algorithm updates. It also limits visibility.
Create Great Content
Links aren’t going to build naturally unless you create content that is worth linking to. In order for content to be “King” as it is frequently referenced, it needs to be good! Content should provide target audience members with some kind of value and can be for informational or educational purposes. If writing and developing content isn’t your strength, hire someone to create it for you or outsource the work to a trusted content writer.
Get Social
An active social media presence can do more than help build a brand. The search engines pay attention to “social signals” and links that are shared via social media sites play a role in search engine ranking.
Link to Internal Pages
When building links, it’s important to think beyond the homepage. Of course, the homepage is important, but the search engines rank individual web pages, and an internal services or product page can also rank well as long as it establishes trust with links.
Use Proper Anchor Text
The search engine spiders “read” links to determine what a webpage is all about. If the inbound link is hyperlinked to the phrase “red dancing shoes”, the spider understands that the page contains information about red dancing shoes. Using anchor text like “click here” tells the spider absolutely nothing.
Network
Establishing and maintaining relationships with other industry professionals can lead to new business opportunities but it can also lead to linking opportunities. Don’t be afraid to reach out and ask your connections if you can contribute content to their site that will improve visibility and establish a quality inbound link.
4 Benefits of Running a Link Audit
Every site owner should run a link audit on their site at least once a year. When conducting a full link audit, it’s important to visit each and every link in your link portfolio no matter how many links there may be!
For some site owners, this may mean you have thousands of links to check out. Instead of losing a week’s worth of time, visit a set number of links each day and complete the link audit over time. No matter how you decide to conduct your link audit, it’s imperative that you do so.
Here are four benefits you’ll get from your efforts:
Identify any harmful links.
Website owners should try to minimize the amount of “bad” inbound links their site has (pornography sites, gambling sites, link farms, etc.) in order to help maintain the integrity of their link portfolio.
Many of these “bad” links are going to try to hide themselves and you may not be able to find them without running a full link audit on your site and visiting each and every link.
Categorize inbound links and pinpoint holes in link portfolio.
By running a link audit on your site you’ll be able to get a very clear outline of your link portfolio. What link building activities are missing from your strategy? Which ones are you relying too heavily on? Remember, the search engines like to see a diverse approach to link building and the more unique sources of links your site has the stronger your SEO campaign will be.
Having too many links coming from one source (i.e blog comments) puts your site in a vulnerable position. If that source of links was to vanish overnight or the search engines decided that tactic was black hat, where would that leave you and your link building?
See what link building activities have been successful. Hopefully you have been keeping some kind of monthly link building report that tracks your link building activities. When you compare those reports against your link audit, you’ll be able to pinpoint what links have gone live and which ones have not.
This will help you better focus your link building activities on the ones that are most likely to produce value for your SEO campaign. For instance, if you’ve been commenting on a particular blog every month but not a single comment has gone through, it might be time to look for a new place to comment and not waste your time.
Uncover new link building opportunities.
Site owners should also consider running link audits on their competitors. This will not only give you a better idea of how well your site measures up against the competition, it will also help you uncover new link building activities.
What industry associations are they a part of that you can join? What forums and messages boards are they active on? What blogs are they writing guest posts for? You can dig through their activities to find new places to build inbound links to your own site and level the playing field.
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