The Importance of Backlinks
59I may be on the verge of figuring out some of the concepts regarding making money online. I have been working on this for five full months now since the last week of May 2009. I started over at Squidoo but learned about HubPages about the same time. I much preferred this site in terms of ease of use and business model. Not to mention, I found the community here much more friendly and helpful at the time. There are several experienced Hubbers who welcomed me and helped me along and for that I am forever grateful.
Now back to the article. It took me a while to figure out what a backlink is. For those who don’t know, it is a link from one web page back to another. It is what you click to move from here to another article. So why are these links important? These links can be used to help drive traffic to your articles or website in a couple ways.
- First, they help you get noticed on the web. The internet is an awfully big place and unless you are standing up and shouting, no one will notice you. That is why it is important to work on placing your own links out on the web.
- Links are used by the search engines as a way of tabulating votes for an article or site. I learned this through my SEO experiment. It is possible to create links yourself or have others link to your content. The more authority a site has, the more important its link in terms of helping your content in search engine ranking.
I have come to believe that backlinks are just as important, if not more so, than the actual content. If you take similar content, the one with the greater number of links will be exposed to the greatest number of readers who might just click on that link to read your stuff. Your stuff will probably also then rank higher in the search engines and get organic traffic leading to increased revenue.
I feel that I have done a poor job thus far of using links to their full potential. My goal for the month of November is to do a better job of linking to my articles, leaving relevant comments on blog posts, and leaving social bookmarks on sites such as Xomba. My plan is to have at least 2 or 3 links in each of my articles or blog posts and to place 2 or 3 links on the web each day for the month of November. In doing so, I hope to increase my traffic and see what the impact on earnings will be.
- My Online Income
Be sure to read my blog as I detail my journey from making nothing to $1000 per month writing content online.
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Lily,
I plan on putting links to my blog posts, links to other articles at my other sites. I will try not to share links as much as possible. The bottom line is that I think it will help in my SERPs.
Thanks for that clarification!
I had not realized that links help your visibility. I will pay more attention to this.
Pia,
I am pleased that you were able to learn something about the importance of backlinks from my article.
Thanks for sharing this important part of earning online...It may take a while for me to do this but I am sure this will give a good return in the future. thanks again.
It does take a while to create your own backlinks. I choose to use some of the sites that will also pay me for my time with AdSense revenue sharing.
Thanks for this important advice. I understand the importance of good backlinks but I am focusing only on the quality of my Hubs, forgetting the other important things like backlinks and SEO.
There is a lot to be said for focusing on quality. I myself tend to focus more on writing plus now it is hard to say what may happen with the recent Google changes.
Yes, I just started with Hubs and I put my blog site and some of my links and it said I was over promoting. It was my first hub and I was new at it. I have done 3 now and it is getting easier but still a lot to learn. There is so much information out there. So everyone sharing their experiences is great!
Thank you!
There is a lot of information out there and it takes a while to get the hang of it. I still don't fully understand all aspects. But if you are willing to learn and put in the time, you can do well.
Lily Rose Level 2 Commenter 2 years ago
Good article. I do understand the importance of backlinks but have done a poor job focusing on it as well. I would like to focus more on it just as you are. I'm wondering, however, what type of links are you going to put into your hubs? Links to blogs where you'll be backlinking from (shared links?)? I'm not sure I quite understand that part...