A backlink is an inward link to your site that may be (or not) paid with a link back from that page. If page X links to a page Y , than the link from the Y page to X page will be called “backlink”.
The Bad backlinks
- Backlinks from link farms, link exchanges, and similar groups (buying, swapping, and giving away links simply to generate links) In Google’s eyes, any types of link scheme not approved and can seriously decrease your rankings.
- Bad Neighborhoods(Backlinks from bad sites) – Porn,gambling or drug sites (banned by search engines and also your site if you link to it).
- “I’ll link to your blog if you link to my blog , so you get one link to your blog and I also receive a backlink” is called a Triangular Linking Scheme (can be penalized/banned).
- If the backlinks on that page have a rel=”nofollow” tag on them the search engines won’t give you credit for the link .
- The website takes forever to load (too many ad banners, etc.) and search engines won’t wait.The website is poorly designed and has broken code, etc. (it may not be indexed)
- Free for All Links -they allow anyone to post a link unreviewed which results in unrelated and spammy links (banned by search engines and also your site if you link to it)
- Sidebar or footer links. Search robots place very little importance on the links situated in Blogroll or in footer,those links may generate some new traffic but those links are not an effective way to increase your Page Rank. Backlinks within the site content are best.
The Good Backlinks
A good backlink is basically a link that comes from a good site that has a similar theme to the one it points to.
Some of the best ways to get quality links is:
- Listing your site to directories like DMOZ, Yahoo etc.
- Creating your own blogs or listing your website in blogs with high traffic and quality content that visitors love to read.You can find many dofollow blog lists ,there are many blogs with high page rank , if you have your blog there you might get some nice traffic.
- Forum posting with the use of targeted anchor text for your sites.You can also find some dofollow forums lists,using this kind of lists you can get some good backlinks posting on forums with high Page Rank.
- Link exchange or keywords as anchor tags with sites of your own domain avoiding link farms and irrelevant pagerank.
- An effective professional Press release that can provide something announcing to the visitors. Though difficult press releases do contribute in providing quality back links to your website .
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Paul
March 6th, 2012
My understanding of back linking and building back links was that Google was discounting forum and directory links. Based on what you have shared in this article, that is not correct? The one point that you have made in your article that in content links are good in Google’s eyes seems to be a concept agreed on by many. Considering that there is so much information on back linking that is conflicting, it is no wonder that so many website owners are having a hard time understanding. So really, who is one to really believe and put faith in!
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niceblogger
March 6th, 2012
I think that only person that you should belive is … YOU! Only you are able to create a strong backlinking campaing for your website..There are many competitors that may create for you bad backlinks that can hurt your website.
bbrian017
March 6th, 2012
Hi niceblogger, I know I should be focus on building backlinks but I just don’t have time. Even when I’m guest blogging I rarely links back but perhaps it’s something I should be using more. I mean I guest blog on a tons of sites I don’t even care of they are do follow or not. I guess the importance of a link quality only matters if you care… Cool article however I enjoyed it a lot! Thanks my friend!
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niceblogger
March 7th, 2012
The quality of a backlink is always important, becaus it can damage your website’s SERPs or it can boost your SERPs, so take care of your backlinks.
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Michael Belk
March 6th, 2012
Good post Niceblogger, we needed this reminder because bad backlinks are tempting.
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March 7th, 2012
Thank you ! I’m glad to see that you like my article…Waiting you to read my next articles here .
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Lennart Heleander
March 7th, 2012
Hi Mihai,
You can put videos to YouTube with back links, posting photos on different photo directories, (read more about it in a good article on hotblogtips) and get good back links.
Stacy
March 7th, 2012
Good list! I see some mistakes that I made in the beginning when I didn’t know any better. Now I mostly focus on other blogs, if I had more time I would spend more time on other methods.
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March 7th, 2012
Great for me to see that my article is usefull for you.Waiting you to read my next articles on blogengage.com.
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Dickie
March 7th, 2012
Thanks for the concise and easy to follow list. I’ve seen far too many that are super wordy and too in-depth. This is a great, quick referral for me to use when looking to build backlinks. Also, I just installed CommentLuv myself so feel free to leave a message on my blog; I’ve enable DoFollow, KeywordLuv, and 10 posts to everyone for the next week as a thank you for letting me comment on your post.
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Abhi Balani
March 11th, 2012
Hey, good comparison between Good and Bad back links. I never noticed this when I just started making back links. But I know what’s the difference, now.
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Shopping Bags
April 5th, 2012
Thanks for sharing this and especially for setting aside the good to the bad back links. And thanks for citing the importance of having a good back link. We really need to follow all the lists.
Ted
May 1st, 2013
Although it is not a good idea to build backlinks which are in your bad category, but any natural backlinks profile will have some bad links in it.
The main thing is to make sure that the majority of your backlinks are the types in your good category.