Category: 3. Link Building for SEO

While it is technically possible to build links with just a bit of brain power and a Gmail account, there are a number of link building tools that will help make the process of acquiring links much easier. Here are some free ones:  And here are some premium ones: Let’s wrap this up This guide turned out…

In part two, I listed a few dozen link building tactics and strategies for you to explore. But which of them are the best and most effective ones? Here at Ahrefs, we’re big advocates of the following four: 1. Pursuing competitors’ links Competitor link research is one of the most fundamental activities in link building.…

What makes a good link? Nobody knows for sure how exactly Google measures the value of each link. But there are some general concepts of evaluating links that the SEO community believes to be true: 1. Authority As you already know, Google sees links as “votes” that a given page deserves to rank well. But a link…

Conceptually, most link building tactics and strategies fall into one of the following four buckets: 1. Adding links If you can go to a website that doesn’t belong to you and manually place your link there, that’s called “adding” a link. The most common tactics that fit into this category are: Building links via those…

What is link building? Link building is the process of getting other websites to link to pages on your website. Its purpose is to boost the “authority” of your pages in the eyes of Google so that these pages rank higher and bring more search traffic. Why is link building important? According to Goo0gle’s Andrey…