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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...

Forget About Article Submission Sites

For a long time time bloggers and website owners would turn to article submission websites to help boost their search engine rankings. By adding articles to these websites, other bloggers were able to add that content to their own websites. This popular resource served a lot of people pretty well – for a while. However, that was “back in the day”, things are different now.

It used to be enough to pump out some content and no matter who wrote it, even if the quality wasn’t all that great and with a bit of on-page SEO, it would rank. Some people made a healthy profit just gathering up content, re-branding it and pumping it out on their blog. All that was needed to rank were a few backlinks. Then, they just had to slap on a few ads, rinse and repeat for a few different niches and voila: some great little cash cows were created. 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...

Optimal Content Length To Gain Higher Search Ranking

When you’re writing out your content, of course, one of the most important things you’re thinking about is the best way to get your message across, whatever message that may be. Perhaps you’re trying to sell something, educate someone, inspire someone, just chatting to your readers.

However, while the message is obviously important, have you ever considered about how the length of your content affects your content’s performance? Most notably, have you ever considered how it might affect your SEO ranking? Read more...