Backlinks : second step to SEO ( Beginner’s Guide )

Whenever a new blogger set up its own blog, the first thing which comes into his mind is, how will my webpage hit the first page on Google search results? 

If you are a newbie and searching the answer of it then a one-liner answer would be to Improve On-page & Off-Page SEO where SEO stands for search engine optimization.  Building backlinks is Off-page search engine optimization

Linking, whether you’re linking to another site or your site is being linked to, is an important part of SEO (search engine optimization)

Backlinks referred as the second step to SEO is a technique to create links on other websites to your website webpages

A webpage with a lot of backlinks are tended to rank higher in all major search engines which leads to an increase in growth of user engagements on your webpage and also redirects traffic from another webpage to your blog page

Earlier a low-quality backlink to your webpage leads to increase in ranking of your webpage on all major search engines but due to the change of Google algorithm, now low-quality backlinks has become useless for a blogger

Generally now a blogger had to create only high-quality backlinks to get a higher rank in the search engine, high-quality backlinks generally refer to those external links which are on the same niche i.e. when you post your webpage links on external websites having the same topic related to your website then it is considered as a high quality backlinks

Now, Discussing the advantage of backlinks to your webpage, some basic advantage I am discussing here :

Improves organic Ranking :

Backlinks help in getting better search engine rankings. If any of your content is getting organic links from other sites, that content will naturally rank higher with search engines

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Your goal should be to create links to individual posts/pages along with those leading to your homepage on other websites webpages

Faster Indexing And Crawling :

Google Crawling and Indexing are the two terms upon which the entire web world depends

Crawling: When Google visits your website for tracking purposes. This process is done by Google’s Spider crawler.

Indexing: After crawling has been done, the results get put onto Google’s index (i.e. web search).

Backlinks help search engine bots discover links to your site and crawl your site effectively.Especially for a new website, it is important to get backlinks as they help in the faster discovery and indexing of your site

Increase Referral Traffic :

One of the major benefits of backlinks is that they help get referral traffic and thus there is an increase in referral traffic. Usually, referral traffic is targeted and has a low bounce rate

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There are various ways to get a quality backlink but the most common among them is commenting on another website on the same niche with your webpage link attached to it and thus as a beginner keep on commenting on a regular basis but the excess of everything is bad so post only 10-20 comments per day

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