SEO and backlinks

[kingdombunniez]

I agree a part of what you said. Yes a high quality and great site will always work. But that doesn't mean you can't start building high quality links. It takes more than great content to get your site ranked. I do agree that you should go for the long term

 

[fisicx]

IIt takes more than great content to get your site ranked.

Ray's excellent course will tell you how to rank without links: https://www.freshbananas.co.uk/

Building high quality links isn't easy or cheap and you can lose the lot in an instant if Google tweaks the algo the wrong way.

 

[webgeek]

I agree a part of what you said. Yes a high quality and great site will always work. But that doesn't mean you can't start building high quality links. It takes more than great content to get your site ranked. I do agree that you should go for the long term

For most SME's, it does NOT take more than a great site with great content to rank well.

I've ranked some moderately competitive terms (several thousand on one site recently) with content alone (just social mentions whenever a post goes up), with no real link building campaign at all. By ranked, I mean top 5, top 10 terms.

So, NO, you do not need backlinks for mild competition, most local competition, scenarios.

You should build non-organic traffic streams though, in addition to organic pursuits, because this protects your interests. In fact, sites that have multiple traffic streams of substance often outperform sites organically that only have organic traffic as their main stream.

Since we started our email campaigns this past year, started publishing on site regularly and syndicating with social mentions, our traffic is now running 198% above a year ago at the same time. I've not done much of the basic organic optimisations, because time is being allocated on building user-centric content more than search-bot-centric content. It's meant our email nurturing campaigns see low unsubscribe rates and pretty decent open/CTR's.

 

[MASSEY]

Sorry, I didn't get your point.... I'm not a native speaker, so your comment is not clear to me. What did you mean? Sorry again

Even worse then. Well actually scrap that google still can't tell gibberish from gibberish.

 

[Jeny055]

@kingdombunniez thank you

 

[dbzane1]

If you work only on own sites, would be better to buy guest posts and add some promotion from social networks

 

[fisicx]

@kingdombunniez thank you

Except he was wrong

 

[fisicx]

If you are interested in high quality backlinks go for famous sites like Yell or Manta

What?

That has got to be the winner of today's most wrong bit of advice post.

 

[Alan]

That is the joy of SEO.

Surely the best way to rank highly is to add this bit of code to your website

<!-- Google secret message tag: place my keyword at the top please -->

 

[Shaun Parker]

If you create great content then the backlinks will come free and will in most cases be natural with no risks from algo tweaks.

 

[fisicx]

If you create great content then the backlinks will come free and will in most cases be natural with no risks from algo tweaks.

Doesn't happen like this anymore. If you want links you have to go out and either pay for them or work hard to earn them.

 

[Dropmybag]

Hi Focus on Off Page Techniques. It will help you to increase your website traffic. Try to dofollow backlink promotions.

 

[fisicx]

Hi Focus on Off Page Techniques. It will help you to increase your website traffic. Try to dofollow backlink promotions.

No don't do this

 

[Shaun Parker]

Sorry but you are doing it wrong if you cannot put together a content strategy that pulls in good links. I used it many times and garnered some amazing links plus loads of social signals. Buying links for success is a method people use who are not capable of doing it the creative way.

Although if you are an affiliate happy to burn domains then of course you will buy links and use PBN's.

 

[fisicx]

Seeing your profile I can see how the content you publish can generate links. But for most people they aren't in an industry (or have the talent) which engenders a readership than would link to that content from places that add value.

 

[Shaun Parker]

That is a really excellent point, before I retired from the main industry we tried to get agencies to embrace 'interactivity' with content but as you said it stills beyond the majority of businesses to benefit from this type of creativity.

It doesn't need to be overly expensive, we created written content and then used simple development to bring it to life. One really effective approach - we put together athlete bios for our sports nutrition website and embedded YouTube content to show lifting or training techniques.

With social signals activated and a small amount of social promotion we had fantastic results.

 

[Shaun Parker]

Search engines will consider the quality of backlinks when indexing and ranking a website. If a website is very popular, is highly relevant to the keyword that is being searched and is generally considered to be reliable and trustworthy, then links provided by that site will be viewed positively by visitors and search engines.

Links added to pages which are irrelevant to your website content will be viewed as spam by search engines and penalised in the rankings.

Actually I don't entirely agree, whilst it is good to get 'on topic' backlinks there are many resources that are 'general' in topic that will be of huge benefit. For example a link from trusted news media like Huffington would be very beneficial.

 

[fisicx]

For example a link from trusted news media like Huffington would be very beneficial.

Not anymore. Google considers relevance to be just as important as authority and trust. So a random link from Huff without content or relevance will have little value. That being said, the chances are a link from Huff will be very relevant (they have to be or the authority huff has will be diminished).

 

[Wanda123]

Rather than buying the link go for blog posting, forum, listing and so on. As it will give you long term benefits.

 

[fisicx]

Rather than buying the link go for blog posting, forum, listing and so on. As it will give you long term benefits.

No, don't do this.

 

[Shaun Parker]

Not anymore. Google considers relevance to be just as important as authority and trust. So a random link from Huff without content or relevance will have little value. That being said, the chances are a link from Huff will be very relevant (they have to be or the authority huff has will be diminished).

So pretty much what I said.

 

[fisicx]

Maybe I missed something, I read that you think any link from an authoritive site is worth having - if that is the case I disagree. The link has to have relevance for Google to give it some value.

 

[Shaun Parker]

Actually I don't entirely agree, whilst it is good to get 'on topic' backlinks there are many resources that are 'general' in topic that will be of huge benefit. For example a link from trusted news media like Huffington would be very beneficial.

I never said any link - You are agreeing that a link from The Huff can be very beneficial, The Huff is a general resource like many that are on the internet. The page would be on topic and the link contextual and probably branded. Therefore I am right in what I said, this would be a beneficial link.

 

[webgeek]

I'll take a nice contextual link from Huffington Post, at this point in time, definitely.

 

[Ventraclothes]

You should focus on On Page & Off Page Techniques to increase your website traffic.

 

[StevePoster]

It seems that the OP is solely focuses on backlinks in which really deceives most of the people because of its influence. You overlooked one of the most important factor in your site's app development company. Is your App met the users needs and expectations?

 

[fisicx]

I'll take a nice contextual link from Huffington Post, at this point in time, definitely.

So would I

 

[webmto]

Useless discussion.

@fisicx give you the SEO essence "The skilled persons on this forum make their money doing SEO. They aren't going to give away all their secrets for free."

 

[webgeek]

If you can't contribute to the discussion how bout taking the 'useless discussion' editorials over to the moan and groan forum where people complain rather than contribute?

 

[webmto]

@webgeek, if my statement is hard to understand then I'll translate.
Want results with SEO? Hire someone to do this, do not try it yourself.

 

[webgeek]

I understand you just fine. I also have now managed to use the forum 'ignore' feature to mute you just fine. No time for trolls.

 

[HelenCope]

Hello check out SEMRush as this has a great backlink audit tool which allows you to track competitors backlinks and will give you a list of suggestions. What's even better is it will give you the PR ranking of websites which is very powerful for any winning SEO campaign.

 

[TomJ83]

SEMrush has impressive features. However it's not free. There is a 14 day trial so you can try it out before deciding whether it's worth to use or not. A free option is BackLinkWatch. But it's crammed with ads to the point it's annoying.

 

[fisicx]

What's even better is it will give you the PR ranking of websites which is very powerful for any winning SEO campaign.

Except of course, PR went out the window last year so it won't help win anything

 

[parkbogum]

Hello, everyone,

I am doing SEO for the site of app development company. Please share your opinions - How can I get proper backlinks? Is it better to buy backlinks or use other tools like blog posting, forums, listing, catalogs and so on? Do you know good platform for backlinks buying? And what is the best way/service for backlinks and sites analyzing?

Thank you!

Concentrate the websites related to your application. So many directory and bookmarking websites are available in internet. Please google it. And also focus on content marketing and social media activities.

 

[webmto]

Do not buy backlinks, because it will lower your site's rating. Develop your own blogs, videos (youtube) and build solid and long-term references.

 

[fisicx]

Do not buy backlinks, because it will lower your site's rating.

Not necessarily. You can buy some great links that generate quality traffic. As long as you don't attempt to use these links to improve your ranking buying links is fine.

 

[webmto]

When you buy bulk, it happen all the time. True, only if buy individual.

 

[Jeny055]

@Ventraclothes, @StevePoster @HelenCope @TomJ83 @parkbogum I want to thank you for your help and advice. I really appreciate your opinions.

 

[Jeny055]

@fisicx @webgeek you are my favorite
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