Building SEO backlinks is one of the most important things you can do as a new blogger and it’s the first thing you should be doing after you design your site and publish your first 10 posts. But building backlinks isn’t just for new bloggers. A healthy backlink profile is vital to good SEO practice and it can be the difference between success and failure in this industry.
Even bloggers who have been blogging for 10+ years should still be building backlinks to their site. The scary thing is that it’s so easy to go about this practice the wrong way. There are websites that have had hundreds of thousands of organic visitors one month, and nearly zero the next, simply because they built their backlinks the wrong way and got penalized by Google.
In this article, I’m going to show you the best, white-hat and ethical ways to build SEO backlinks in 2022 and beyond.
What are SEO Backlinks?
A backlink is simply a hyperlink from one article to another. As Moz puts it in this article:
“Backlinks, also called “inbound links” or “incoming links,” are created when one website links to another. The link to an external website is called a backlink.”
Backlinks are one of the supreme ranking factors that search engines use in order to rank websites. The more backlinks you have to your site, the higher your Domain Authority (DA) will be. This means that you’ll have a much better chance of ranking in Google and thus, gaining the highly sought after “organic traffic” that you’ll need to grow a massive audience.
A backlink is basically a vote in the eyes of Google. The more SEO backlinks your website has, the more votes it has from other websites, meaning you’ll likely appear higher in search results. But unlike a democracy, in the SEO world, not all links are created equal. A backlink from a high Domain Authority website is far more valuable than one from a lower DA site.
Similarly, there are some backlinks that can actually hurt your website. If you get a link back from a site with a very high Spam Score, this may diminish Google’s trust in your own site. The key is to have a healthy backlink profile that includes a mix of high and low DA backlinks, and very few spammy backlinks.
SEO Backlink vs. Internal Link
A lot of bloggers and website owners focus solely on building backlinks, but they forget about the importance of building internal links. An internal link is when you link from one of your own blog posts or pages to another post or page on your own site.
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