What is Link Building and Why is it Important?

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What is Link Building and Why is it Important?

To put it simply, link building is a process where you acquire hyperlinks from other relevant websites to your own website. It is when other websites add a hyperlink to your content on their own website. This is often done naturally, which means creating high quality, unique, and relevant content, securing links from authoritative websites that are relevant to yours.

Why is Link Building Important?

Link building is a crucial part of search engine optimisation (SEO). Studies have shown that link building is a major ranking factor for search engines, helping them determine where to rank your web pages in results. 

If you haven't taken advantage of link building yet, then now is the time to start. You can have the most user friendly website with the finest quality content, but you need to be able to reach your audience and search engines, this is where link building comes into play.

Link building is a complex process that takes a lot of time and effort. A good link building strategy can assist your SEO campaign, helping you improve the viability of your brand, while driving quality traffic to your website.  Remember, the more high quality websites link to your website, the higher your ranking will be in search engine results pages (SERPs).

What is Link Building and Why is it Important?
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Important Link Building Strategies

In order to acquire a link, you need to ensure you create something that is worth the other website linking to. The more high quality, unique, and relevant content you create, the higher your chances are of securing a link. In order to secure a link, you need to provide value. This is done by providing the valuable and unique content people are looking for.

The three link building strategies include:

Guest Blogging

Writing great quality blog posts for other websites is an excellent opportunity to boost visibility. It is also useful in building links back to your own blog or website. Using carefully selected guest blogs, link building can help you grow your brand online. 

Creating high quality content that is linked to your domain, you need to provide valuable information to the readers. Guest blogging can be done by any business, no matter the size or industry, as guest blogging does not cost anything, so you don't have to pay for advertising. It is also an excellent opportunity to help smaller businesses compete with large corporations in their industry.

Exchanging Links

Link exchanges are not uncommon. You will need to build a relationship with a website owner that has a website similar to yours, focusing on the same industry or niche. You can offer them a link and you receive one in return. There is a word of caution, when exchanging links with another website, try not to send the links directly to each others websites, as this appears spammy. You can offer to add the link in a guest blog you are publishing.

Broken Link Building

This is a great opportunity to build links and improve your SEO campaign. It does take time and effort, but you need to focus on finding broken links on relevant websites and then offer the website owner an updated version of the content with a link to your site. This improves their website, while providing you with the link that you need.

Conclusion

Link building should be an important part of any digital marketing campaign. It helps your SEO efforts, drives traffic to your website, and helps you catch the attention of search engines, ensuring that they crawl and index your pages. An effective link building campaign can help you improve your brand visibility, drive your audience to your website, giving you the opportunity to increase your conversion rate.

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