Does building backlinks help improve Google rankings? If so which links work nowadays?
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Hi Guys,
Please only reply of you have real experience....
So as the title implies does building backlinks work in improving the rankings in Google? I know they are not on the same level as some are spammy, in blog networks etc but how about other backlinks that are of higher quality? If yes, what sorts of backlinks work nowadays in boosting rankings but not risking getting penalized?
So should you build backlinks ongoing? If so how many per month? I have a real struggle trying to get backlinks on really high quality sites. Any advice?
Cheers
John
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So as the title implies does building backlinks work in improving the rankings in Google? At the end of the day, Google is just a crawler who follow and classify links/ web pages. Links still matter, what has been changed is the way Google evaluate those links but still are one of the primaries sources to Google.
But how about other backlinks that are of higher quality? Well build backlinks is one of the most time-consuming tasks these days on the SEO world, is not something that you make after ending the On-page optimization. In fact, in my case, it is a Full time tasks with its own budget, tools, schedules, providers, and calendar. So a simple example for that if I want to build a backlink for a page a do not just send an email for outreach ( that is for newbies) I have been built my own database with categories, tags, niche, topic, requirements ( every webmaster/blogger has its own requirements)
Tools and services that strongly recommend you
- Buzzstream or Ninjaoutreach
- The Hoth **** -----------> (Link Building Services)
- Authority Builders ** --> **(Link Building Services)
- Gotch SEO ** ----------> (Link Building Services)**
So if you have the budget and the resource the best way to do it is create the content lets take an example. You want to launch an article about "how to make money online". The first thing that you need to do is create an outstanding article ( minimum 3000 words ) and then create an outreach campaign about that specific topic this can be
- _How to make money with Upwork _
- How to make money with affiliate marketing
- _How to make money with Google Adsense _
So basically you need to publish that content on third party websites pointing to your target page "How to make money online" also to keep you safe you need to invest on social signals ( shares and so on) to give credibility to your site (trust). If you keep in mind all the budget required to do that, you will realize that is not cheap or a secondary tasks
These are some basic numbers
- Buzzstream payment --> $99
- Content Broker or Constant Content --> 20 to 50 per article (in the best scenario)
- Infographics or Media Assets --> 20 to 50
- VA for permanently or part-time outreach ----> Depending on the experience can be from 600 to 1500
As you will notice is not cheap or easy and if you want to make it like a pro you really have to start to see it as a project, not as a task.
If you don't have the money, the time or the resources you can use some of the services that I mentioned above such as The Hoth.
Another factor that you need to keep in mind is the competition level of the topic that you want to rank for. A local website for a plumber it's far easy to rank if you compared with an Affiliate website ( in weight loss) or a dropshipping website or even worst a Shopping website
Hope this info will help you
Regards
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I've always had this question in the back of my mind as well. I'm still new to SEO but here's what I do.
For link building, I usually start with business listings and directories (about 5-10 month), after a few months of those being indexed in Google and Bing. I start with low tier backlinks from WordPress blogs that I created and link to those business links (about x1 500 word article a week). You can try to reach out to people's blogs to post on, but I've never been successful with that.
This may not be the best method, but is this what I do to see keywords more up a few ranks or even pages (depending on how difficult the keyword is).
Hope this helps.
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