We have already discussed importance of SEO for Bloggers. Extending the series, Backlinks is one of the important aspect of SEO.
Backlink is a most talked about term in the World of blogging.Why everyone talk about this term. Is it really that much important for any blog?
The answer is Yes. The next question came in our mind is how and why?
Baclink is important in terms of SEO of the blog. More the backlinks more the credibility of the blog. But there are more and more factors involves in the deciding factors of
SEO.Lets discuss one by one. But before discussing this lets discuss what actually the backlink is.
What are Backlinks?
Backlinks are links that directed towards your website or a blog.Backlinks are also known as inbound links. Backlinks are important in terms of SEO because more the backlinks more the chance of your website to come on top of search engines. Many search engines include the backlinks factor in deciding feature of search engine algorithm.In easy words if your website has a more number of backlinks then your website is more credible in Google‘s eye. So would you satisfied with all the links coming from any sites?
You shouldn’t because when search engines manipulate the relevance of a site to any keyword, then number of Quality inbound links to that site is a deciding factor. Now the question is
What are Quality backlinks?
Backlinks can come from any site that is related to content of website or from any other niche website. Suppose Shoutmeloud is a blog which tell us about blogging,technology and web 2.0 but the backlinks of the blog comes from any finance website then it would not be considered as a Quality backlinks. So the link coming from more relevant website would be considered as more important. For example if link is coming from any technology website like Honeytechblog then it would me more relevant because it is also a blog filled with content related to technology and web 2.0.
Note: People often make more than two websites and try to link all the website by generating lots of backlinks. This is a nice practice but you shouldn’t do this if your both sites are on the same IP. You can’t hide yourself from Google eyes, it will catch you and fine you.
Many of us play a link exchange game via blogroll, giving link of any site in exchange of our link. We must take care before this habit.If you exchange the link with a popular and trustworthy website then it is OK but if you link with any bad website then it would be hazardous to your website too.
The best practice of Link exchange will be making a tripod. Like Website A give a link back to Website B, Website B give a link back to website C and Website C give a linkback to website A. This way you will not be falling into the scheme of link farm and you will be getting link back on all your websites.
Importance of Commenting
Commenting on a dofollow website is famous amongst bloggers because it gives backlinks to our website. Depending on the blog comment attributes, with one comment you might be lucky to get a quality backlink and traffic. Though you should Follow a strategy view to add comments on blog. For commenting I will suggest have a look at the following blog posts :
- List of wordpress blogs using top commentator plugin
- Use commenting strategy to get 1000+ Feed subscribers
- List of Dofollow forums
For easy and fast commenting, I will recommend use Mozilla along with Easy comment Firefox addon.
Article by Himanshu Yadav
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Good post
So I guess we shouldn’t bother commenting on the usual no-follow comment forms since it won’t give any backlinks? (apart from connecting to the blogger and get traffic from it, I mean)
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@Harsh Nice Article…
@Michael Nup! I don’t agree I’ve worked on a project and found that comments backlink work, but yes the are not worth the regular links.
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@Michael Commenting is also a very nice topic of discussion. Yes commenting habit is very good for getting a significant amount of traffic and connecting to other Blogger. But if we look in the ethical manner then commenting is a way to appreciate any writer’s work and also a medium to express the thing which slip from the writer’s mind while writing the article or expressing our dissatisfaction on article . Like we saw recently the article published by a social media giant Mashable while death of Micheal Jackson got very anger response from the fans on Facebook.
So its our perspective how we see the things, either looking in the way of making backlinks, making traffic, connecting to other blogger or expressing our views on an article.
the writer™s mind while writing the article or expressing our dissatisfaction on article .but The best practice of Link exchange will be making a tripod.
Suppose you want to dominate in certain niche. than we need to have more quality backlinks than our competitor???
How you know which backlink is more important for search engines?
@Rahul First thing, it is already mentioned in an article that link coming from website whose niche is same as of your website is more valuable than link coming from website with different content.
Suppose you write about iPhone and you have a backlink from a website which is filled with information of Windows 7 then the backlink is not important if we compare it from the backlink coming from any iPhone blog.
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Link exchange forming tripod:–tahts smthing really to follow
Very nice post I will bookmarked it & I carry your all suggestions hope so they all are good for my blog.Thanks a lot for sharing with us these tips.
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But question is how to SEO your blog.
Himanshu, is it true that the link should be hotlinked using the keyword or phrase that the page the link is going to helps get you a better result?
Hi that was a nice info but I would like to correct you that commenting only on dofollow blogs wont help but the process of back-linking should look very natural so that the search engines don’t penalize your blogs and that’s why a balance between the dofollow and nofollow should be maintained.
How we can find that a particular blog or website on which dofollow comments present?