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The Truth About Backlinks: Why Quality Matters for SEO

Backlinks are links from other websites that lead directly to your own website. For example, if a blog post from another site linked to your page, that would be a backlink to your site. Backlinks are essential for SEO because they indicate to search engines how popular and relevant a website is. Search engines, including Google, crawl the internet looking for links and determine how much weight to apply to each one based on a mostly unknown criteria. A website with many backlinks shows that it is popular and relevant, which can lead to higher rankings in search engine results and therefore gain more organic traffic.

However, the truth about backlinks is that having the most number of links is not necessarily a good thing because all backlinks are not created equally. If a backlink is tagged as ‘nofollow’ then it provides no power to the linked website. Spammy links also won’t help as backlinks are given power based on the referring website, so it must be relevant to the linking site to have the best effect. Read more...

SEO Local Citation Building Guide

Using all the available tools online to assist with your local SEO efforts is essential to maximise your chances of appearing at the top of search results. Local citations form an important part of any local SEO strategy and can improve the chances for your business to rank in search engines. Citation listings form part of any link building strategy too because they get your business more external links from reputable sources (however these are generally not as powerful). The most popular business listing locations are across social media and on your Google Business profile. These sites are not usually referred to as citation sites and are generally universally used for all businesses to list their business.

What Are SEO Citations?

SEO citations are a local citation building strategy where your business can improve its presence in search engine rankings by creating business profiles to appear more on Google. This is done by creating a citation listing as a business profile on sites like Yellow Pages, True Local, Product Review, Trust Pilot, & Yelp. These are just some of the most popular and well-known sites, but there are many authoritative local business listing sites that can help with SEO efforts. Read more...

5 Reasons Why Your Backlinks Don’t Function Properly

SEO ain’t easy, we all know that. It’s commonly known to be the Internet’s “dark science,” hence so many people quitting trying to promote their websites and making it to the first page.

You can often find articles like “SEO isn’t relevant anymore” appearing here and there. However, this statement can’t be further from the truth. The truth is that SEO is doing very well and is a defining growth factor in many successful businesses over the world. Read more...

How to Use Images for Link Building?

Internet users share millions of illustrations, photos and memes to tell stories and present their ideas to the world every day. Images express a great deal of information without words and can provide more context than written content. Images provide a great opportunity to grab attention, reach diverse audiences, and ultimately, market your brand. That’s exactly why you should be using this invaluable form of content to get your site to the top of search results.

Images And The Sharing Economy

As a marketer, you’re always looking for ways to attract more site visitors. Most of your site content probably focuses on anticipating the needs of your audience, so you can provide information that answers the right questions. People who come to your site might stick around if they find what they’re looking for, but only a small fraction of those visitors will link to your content. Read more...