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What is Link Building vs Backlinks?

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) relies on the assistance of link building and backlinking. Link building refers is when you make a serious effort to secure hyperlinks from a variety of high authority websites. The goal is to improve visibility. Backlinks are incoming links that come from other websites, linking to your content. 

Backlinks are a vote of confidence to search engines, telling them that your content is relevant and valuable.  Link building unlocks the potential of your website, boosting brand visibility and driving organic and quality visitors to your website. Backlinks, functions at a signal to search engines, telling them that your content is high quality and relevant.

How many websites you have linking to your content, along with the quality of the websites will impact how search engines see your web pages, increasing your ranking in search engine results pages (SERPs).

What is Link Building vs Backlinks?
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Link Building Campaigns

To create a successful link building campaign requires following steps with precise execution. This includes forging relationships with other content creators in your industry, creating high quality and valuable content that others want to link to, and using your knowledge to provide valuable blogs on other websites, known as guest blogging.

It important when acquiring links to always remember the SEO Best practices and ensure that you maintain a positive image on the internet.

Acquiring Links

Backlinks show your content as relevant and valuable to search engines. Remember you want high quality links, this means a link from a high quality website has more impact than a link from a new business that is considered low quality. This requires a strategy that is aimed at securing backlinks to boost brand visibility and drive more traffic to your website.

Natural Links

Natural link building is a preferred method, ensuring that the internet overflows with high quality, unique, and relevant content, that we desperately need. In order to enjoy the success of natural links, you need to create the best quality content that is brimming with valuable information that reputable and high quality websites want to link to. Remember links can be to your images, infographs, website content, blog, and more.

What is a High Quality Backlink?

High quality backlinks are those that come from a reliable website. Securing a link from a reliable website boosts your visibility, while showing search engines that you are a credible source of information. 

Link Source Authority

The authority of the website providing the backlink is exceptionally important to your link building campaign. Backlinks from reputable website provide the highest level a vote of confidence can get, showing your content is relevant and valuable. This helps to improve your website ranking, driving organic traffic to your website. 

Acquiring Backlinks – Your Link Building Strategy

There are a number of effective link building strategies you can use to acquire backlinks.

Be Proactive

In order to acquire a backlink from a high quality website, you may need to get proactive. You can reach out to other website owners, create high quality guest blogs, or collaborate on content that helps you both secure links. Being proactive and reaching out to other similar websites is a win-win for both websites, helping improve your ranking in SERPs. 

Note there is a word of caution when it comes to collaborating and exchanging links. Do not give them a link and they provide a backlink in return, that is too obvious, not to mention goes against SEO best practices. The best way to acquire a link is to create high quality guest blogs and offer to provide content in exchange for a link when you find a broken link on their website.

Conclusion

Its easy to assume link building and backlinks are the same thing. Well in a way they are. Link building is the process of acquiring backlinks that direct search engines and visitors to your website. The backlink is the link that is already in place from another high quality website to your own.

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