What is backlink? Things to consider before creating backlinks

In this article we will discuss about what is backlink and things to consider before creating backlinks.

What is backlink? Things to consider before creating backlinks

In simple terms Backlink is an incoming hyperlink from a website’s web page to another website’s web page.

More about Backlinks

Backlinks are also know as inward links, incoming links and inbound links that point to a website, blog or web directory’s page or Domain.

Anchor text in backlinks?

Anchor text is the text of a link that you actually click to get redirected to other website.
How to create Anchor Text.
<a title="dynamic website designing" href="http://getmeonlinemarketing.com/dynamic-website-design/">Dynamic website designing</a>

Example of backlink and Anchor Text

In this example I will take two websites names both have web pages. My 1st example website name is xyz.com and 2nd website name is abc.com. Author or admin of abc.com visited to xyz.com and he liked the information that was written in xyz.com so he decided to write a page related to that information in his website abc.com and he also gives the credit to xyz.com by mentioning its url in the text with anchor text on it.
Now the text on which the visitor of abc.com clicks which take him to xyz.com website is called as anchor text.
For example the topic of webpage was best ice-cream flavor in Sydney.
At last abc.com write in the end of his article that the information gathered was on the behalf on “best ice cream reviews” the best ice cream review is embedded with the link xyz.com. Now we can say “best ice cream review” is known as anchor text and embedded xyz.com is the backlink for the website xyz.com.

Why backlink is considered as a crucial step for SEO.

Google gives a vote for your per backlink, increase in the no of backlinks means increase in no of votes given by google and hence higher PageRank and better SERP results. Backlinks is the indication of popularity and importance of that webpage with the help of which Google determines PageRank of a webpage and index it accordingly in SERP results.


 

 

Things to consider before creating a backlink


Be periodic:
create your backlinks in periodic way. If you are creating links of your website on other websites than the numbers of links created per week should be periodic and consistent in nature. For eg. You are creating 10 links per week than your same strategy must follow other week.

Anchor Tags Optimization:

Optimization of anchor tags with specific keywords of same niche is a crucial step to follow. If you are not optimizing it accordingly than you backlink strategy will not give you the desired results.
For example you are creating anchor text for a web page which has text related to room service and you want that page to be optimized for a keyword “hotel room service in Sydney”
Than your anchor text must be “hotel room service in Sydney” and you can vary the text according to keywords.

Note: Do not over optimize your anchor text while creating backlinks . Here over optimization means you must not create and use the same keywords again and again in while creating backlinks instead you can use the synonyms of the keywords. 
Pointing your website on unique domains. 

Don’t create backlinks on same domain use unique domains. Here unique domains mean different domains.

Thing to consider: Your backlink must be created on the domain with same interest area. For example you have a website related to astrology and you must create the backlinks of your website on the forums, blogs, directories etc related to Astrology. If you create the backlink on sports website it might get your website penalized by Google and all your hard work will go in vain.
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About Rahul Rana

I am an experienced web designer and SEO expert. I am running my own online marketing company i.e "SEO To Web Design". Thanks for reading, keep sharing online marketing and web design knowledge.
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