What is Link Building in Digital Marketing?

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What is Link Building in Digital Marketing?

If you have taken a lot of time and effort in creating high quality content, you want it to rank well in search engine results pages (SERPs). Google's algorithm has to trust your website in order to make your website stand out on the first page of results.

Gaining Trust

Link building is the most effective way to gain trust with search engines. This is the process of building links from other relevant websites, directing visitors back to your website. These are known as backlinks.

Google's algorithm examines backlinks, along with the level of quality for each web page, when it comes to ranking you in SERPs. Writing unique, high quality, and relevant content that gains a lot of backlinks from high quality websites, will boost your ranking in SERPs, helping you reach your target audience.

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Link Building Statistics

Some of the interesting link building statistics to help you understand why link building is important to any successful digital marketing campaign, includes:

The organic results in number one place on the first page of SERPs has 3.8 times more backlinks than the second to tenth positions
Thanks to the first place organic position, that result will have the highest click through rate, meaning a higher percentage of users will click on the content.

The Importance of Link Building in Digital Marketing

There are so many experiments and studies that prove that link building is an effective way to improve your ranking in Google SERPs, though Google has not confirmed this about their ranking system. Google states that backlinks are not a top ranking factor, or they are not in the top three ranking factors. This means that they are there somewhere and they do play an important role.

There was a Google leak spilled, where a member of their team shared information on their ranking system, proving that backlinks are a major ranking factor. We do know that backlinks are credibility votes for the quality of content on your website. 

Referring Domains vs Backlinks

It is no surprise that many business owners interchange the terms backlinks and referring domains, though there is a significant difference. Backlinks are links directed to your website from another relevant and high quality website. A referring domain is a website that links back to your website at least once. 

Googles algorithm takes backlinks and referring domains into consideration. This means one website can backlink to all your web pages, but it is only taken as a referring domain, so only one counts in your favour. Studies have proven that the more referring domains you have, the higher your ranking in SERPs will be.

Why You Should Invest in a Link Building Strategy

Valuable and high quality backlinks will provide your business with numerous outstanding benefits when it comes to your digital marketing campaign. These benefits include:

Conclusion

Link building is a vital component of any successful digital marketing campaign, helping your business stand out front and centre to your audience. Link building helps your business gain credibility and trust, showing you as an authority in your industry, a source of valuable information. Link building not only improves ranking in SERPs, it also helps improve user experience (UX).

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