I generally get quite a number of queries about inbound links from bloggers and how to increase their blog’s inbound links? I wonder why bloggers just think only about inbound links and ignore outbound links? Outbound links are equally important for your blog’s search engine optimization.
Outbound links are the links to other blogs from your blog. If your blog has relevant outbound links then the chances of good search engine ranking. Outbound links plays a vital role in blog’s SEO. There are few benefits of outbound links:
- Get targeted visitors.
- It gives clear idea about your blog to search engines because of relevant links.
- Best way to be in touch with bloggers having same niche.
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Though outbound links are good for SEO purpose but you must take care of few tips before building Outbound links for your blog.
link to relevant blogs
Getting outbound links for your blog never means that you must linkup to bad neighbors. Search engines keeps track of outbound links thus avoid linking to banned sites or bad blogs. Try to linkup with blogs having same niche as your blog. This will help you to attract targeted visitors to your blog.
No link Farms
There are many online services which will assure to give you plenty of outbound links, keep your hands off from these kinds of services. It would be tough for you to analysis where your blog is linked and is that blog relevant to your blog or not? There are chances that you might get banned from search engines because of linking to bad websites or blogs.
Avoid too many outbound links
It’s good to have outbound links but if you will have lots of outbound links, it might give negative impact about your blog to search engines. While linking to other blogs or internal pages of your blog you should never think of quantity, it should always be quality. Link to less blogs but only to relevant blogs.
Provide and ask for links
It’s always good to use give and take system in blogging. If you have any blog post where you can link to other’s blog post, you must provide link in your post. This will improve content of your post as well as you can ask for link exchange with other blogger. This link exchange will be helpful for getting targeted traffic to both the blogs.
Whom you must link too?
There might be questions about outbound links that whom you can target for linking your blog. Here are few suggestions for creating outbound links:
- Link to bloggers who are active on your blogs (comments, tweets), this will be kind of reward to them.
- Link to blogs having good PR or Successful blogs.
- Link to the bloggers in your networks or same niche, this will help you to create community with fellow bloggers.
I always found outbound links useful and I am sure it would provide you good results too. What are your strategies for outbound links?
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I always ingnored the importance of outbound links
Nice tips Ruchi. Will consider all these points you’ve mentioned from now onwards
Glad you found article useful Muhammad.
It’s all about taking and never giving out when its necessary lol.
This is the reason why bloggers fail to give out few valuable outbound links to others
I always give out credits and links on my blog wherever it is necessary
Great NpXp, That’s really good habit to give out credit.
whether it is good to allow Trakbacks ????
Allowing Trackbacks don’t have any problems Sudharsan but I would suggest not to approve in comments .
Never knew so much information about outbound links … thanks for the info..
Great tips Ruchi
thanks for sharing !!
@ Nitesh @ Dev, Glad you like the post
Nice tips. But huge amount of outbound links may results to spamming.
Agree with you Chendrashekhar, every blogger must remember that If you do anything too much in blogging ( Tweets, inbound links, outbound links) while results in spamming.
I read on problogger that. Out bound links is also very important as in bound links. It will increase the chances of higher seo and ranking. So, always give out bound links wisely.
Right All Is Well, We should keep track where we are linking to our blogs. It should be good blog not the banned one.
Nice tips Ruchi
will follow them from now onwards .
Glad you found it useful Shabnam
You Shared a Nice Article, Got a Clear Idea about Outbound Links, Will Do them on my Blog!
Glad you found the article useful, do share your feedback after using them
Really useful pointers on SEO, I am bookmarking this page for future reference. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Media Maven.
Great tips!
thanks
out bound links always good idea to stimulate search engines . “Ruchi” your correct , those out bound linking pages should need high page rank to get better results.great post and thanks for sharing
what I know is the outbound links must be very FEW.
if you have many you will give a bad impression for SEO