{"id":37234,"date":"2020-03-31T19:23:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T23:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andysowards.com\/blog\/?p=37234"},"modified":"2020-04-09T13:24:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T17:24:52","slug":"5-key-link-building-strategies-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andysowards.com\/blog\/2020\/5-key-link-building-strategies-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Key Link Building Strategies for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to have a successful website that features highly in search engine results for your niche or industry, you&#8217;ll need to take a closer look at backlinks. <\/p>\n<p>Backlinks are links that come to your site from another site. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.augiewildlife.com\/\">This link<\/a> (to Augiewildlife.com), for example, would be classed as a backlink to the Augiewildlife.com website. <\/p>\n<p>Backlinks are used by search engines to work out how \u201d\u02dcgood&#8217; the site is: how much information it gives to readers, whether it&#8217;s trustworthy, and if it provides entertaining\/informational\/useful content.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re also useful to help search engines find new pages.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of backlinks would suggest that a website is trustworthy and holds authority, making Google and other search engines believe that it is worth showing higher up in search results.<\/p>\n<p>But there are a few rules that you&#8217;ll need to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>1 &#8211; DON&#8217;T buy backlinks<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andysowards.com\/blog\/2017\/tips-for-a-great-link-building-campaign\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/andysowards.com\/blog\/assets\/5-Key-Link-Building-Strategies-for-2020-2.png\" alt=\"5 Key Link Building Strategies for 2020 2\" width=\"710\" height=\"434\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37240 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 710px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 710\/434;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Click Here: Tips For A Great Link Building Campaign<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Buying backlinks, either alone or as part of a \u201d\u02dcguest blogging&#8217; package, is behavior that Google will penalize you for. You will struggle to rank highly in search results, or could be blacklisted from results completely.<\/p>\n<p>Google specifically states:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBuying links or participating in link schemes in order to manipulate PageRank is a violation of Google&#8217;s Webmaster Guidelines.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Backlinks are more expensive than you&#8217;d think, too. Some websites\/blogs can charge upwards of $500 or $1,000 for the addition of a link, or for a guest post that links to you. Most will charge between $50 to $500.<\/p>\n<h3>2 &#8211; DO create amazing, LINK-WORTHY content that people would naturally want to link to<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andysowards.com\/blog\/2019\/link-building-incredibly-important-seo\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/andysowards.com\/blog\/assets\/5-Key-Link-Building-Strategies-for-2020-5-1024x353.jpg\" alt=\"5 Key Link Building Strategies for 2020 5\" width=\"1024\" height=\"353\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-37238 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/andysowards.com\/blog\/assets\/5-Key-Link-Building-Strategies-for-2020-5-1024x353.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andysowards.com\/blog\/assets\/5-Key-Link-Building-Strategies-for-2020-5-768x265.jpg 768w, https:\/\/andysowards.com\/blog\/assets\/5-Key-Link-Building-Strategies-for-2020-5.jpg 1500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/353;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Why Link Building Is Incredibly Important for SEO<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Amazing content is content that gives an audience exactly what it is looking for: it answers questions, provides useful information, and hasn&#8217;t just been copied from another source. Creating informational, easy-to-read, entertaining, and unique content is the fastest way to get more readers, and also to get more backlinks.<\/p>\n<p>Find a question that someone hasn&#8217;t answered yet, and then answer it.<\/p>\n<p>Offer a suggestion to resolve a problem that you haven&#8217;t seen anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Put together a full, in-depth guide that answers <u>EVERY<\/u> question a potential reader might have, but also add in a table of contents, plus bold sub-headings, so readers will have <u>all<\/u> of the answers in a format that makes each answer, individually, easy to find.<\/p>\n<h3>3 &#8211; DON&#8217;T ignore the importance of a blog <\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/infinigeek.com\/niche-seo-is-the-new-in\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/andysowards.com\/blog\/assets\/5-Key-Link-Building-Strategies-for-2020-4.jpg\" alt=\"Targeting, marketing, recruit.\" width=\"700\" height=\"420\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37237 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 700px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 700\/420;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Niche SEO Is The New \u201d\u02dcIN&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re on the subject of amazing content, you definitely shouldn&#8217;t ignore the importance of a blog. Posting on a blog consistently and regularly gives you a chance to create <em>multiple<\/em> amazing pieces of content, each of which could attract backlinks from other relevant sites.<\/p>\n<p>Posting consistently and regularly doesn&#8217;t need to mean every day: you could blog once a week and still see huge results. Consistency is key.<\/p>\n<h3>4 &#8211; DO work with the local community <\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/infinigeek.com\/find-local-link-building-opportunities\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/andysowards.com\/blog\/assets\/5-Key-Link-Building-Strategies-for-2020-3-1024x455.png\" alt=\"5 Key Link Building Strategies for 2020 3\" width=\"1024\" height=\"455\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-37239 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/andysowards.com\/blog\/assets\/5-Key-Link-Building-Strategies-for-2020-3-1024x455.png 1024w, https:\/\/andysowards.com\/blog\/assets\/5-Key-Link-Building-Strategies-for-2020-3-768x341.png 768w, https:\/\/andysowards.com\/blog\/assets\/5-Key-Link-Building-Strategies-for-2020-3.png 1588w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/455;\" \/><\/a><em>How to Find Local Link Building Opportunities<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This applies to both the local community online, and in \u201d\u02dcreal life&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a small, local business, your local community IS your job; the people around you are what keep you in business. Working with, and linking to\/from, businesses that are local to you is one of the best ways to build links within both the \u201d\u02dcreal life&#8217; and online community.<\/p>\n<p>If your community looks at you in a positive light, they will be more inclined to leave you with positive reviews online \u201d\u201d and this applies to \u201d\u02dcregular&#8217; customers as well as business customers. Those business customers probably have a website of their own, giving you the perfect opportunity to inter-link within your community.<\/p>\n<h3>5 &#8211; DON&#8217;T try to get as many backlinks as possible<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andysowards.com\/blog\/2019\/top-backlink-tips-law-firm-seo-know\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/andysowards.com\/blog\/assets\/5-Key-Link-Building-Strategies-for-2020-1.jpg\" alt=\"5 Key Link Building Strategies for 2020 1\" width=\"710\" height=\"434\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37236 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 710px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 710\/434;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Top Backlink Tips For Law Firm SEO: What To Know<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Having lots of backlinks to your site is, obviously, a very good thing \u201d\u201d and probably the target of your hard work; however, lots of backlinks only works in your favor when those links are high-quality and from relevant websites. If you get a high number of backlinks from domains that are considered undesirable by search engines, such as spam or blacklisted sites, you could find your site is penalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to have a successful website that features highly in search engine results for your niche or industry, you&#8217;ll need to take a closer look at backlinks. 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