What is link building?

Level: Intermediate
Online Marketing

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What is link building?

Link building helps you build high-quality backlinks to your website or key pages on your website. The goal of link building is not only to attract visitors but also to increase your website’s domain authority.

Link building on your website

In addition to acquiring external links to your site, link building also involves properly linking to your internal pages. It is important that the link building on your own website is in order. Of course, you don’t want a page that ends abruptly, or worse yet, a page without any incoming links—a so-called “orphan page.”

That is why it is important to place links on your pages that refer to other pages on your site or to other websites. Link building is a key component in improving website authority to ensure good visibility in various search engines such as Google.

SEO link building

A link can be easily incorporated into your website’s text. By conducting keyword research beforehand, you ensure that your text also ranks at the top of search engines. It’s a very simple application with high value. Often, the text of a hyperlink looks slightly different; it is usually bolded or a different color. These hyperlinks are important for search engines because they help them discover new pages.

In addition, search engines use these links to determine how high a particular page ranks on the relevant search engines, such as Google. Search engines determine how high a page is ranked based on the content on that page. This is also referred to as “indexing.”

Backlinks in link building

In addition to the content, backlinks also play an important role in indexing. The more pages from other websites that have a backlink to your page, the higher that page will be indexed. If these links come from pages with high domain authority—that is, highly reputable websites—this will have a very positive impact on indexing.

Link-building tips

You can easily make a few adjustments yourself to help your website get indexed better. Here are a few tips:

  1. Good content: it’s important to write good content that is reliable and valued. You want to encourage people to link to your website, which is why it’s important that your content is of high quality.
  2. Backlinks: make sure you get backlinks from various types of websites. An example of a good website is our own SEO project, Startup 24. Such pages are focused on making websites discoverable and have strong domain authority.
  3. Broad visibility: ensure your services are visible in as many places on the internet as possible. The more people promote your product, the more people will link to your website.
  4. Link-building packages: with a link-building package, you generate high-quality links to your website from relevant websites with strong authority.
  5. Link-building platform: A link-building platform offers a wide range of reliable and valuable websites where you can purchase backlinks for link-building. A link-building platform typically has a good selection of websites that are well-suited to your industry.

Link-building strategy

It’s important that you also engage in link building within your website. You should place links within your website to pages on your own site. This helps the pages on your website get indexed better and also allows your visitors to see multiple pages.

For example, it’s a good idea to include a link to an internal page about SEO if both topics are related to SEO. As you can see, it can be pretty simple. 😉

You can also include links to other websites. Keep in mind that, in principle, you should only link to websites that are reputable and provide reliable information. After all, you wouldn’t recommend a bad restaurant to someone—only good restaurants with a strong reputation where you’ve had a positive experience.

Nofollow

If, for some reason, you still need to link to a website whose reliability you question, you can include“nofollow”in the link’s code. This way, the link won’t be indexed by search engines and won’t have any other negative effects.

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