Lesson 31: Backlinks and Negative Backlink SEO Audits View the Video: https://app.tidyrank.com/ Step 1) First off, a backlink is just a link from another website to a URL on your website. The more backlinks you have from relevant, related and high-authority sources, the better your website will rank for keywords if you have already implemented all of our other SEO lessons on your website.
Step 2) There is not a predetermined number of backlinks to acquire that will just give you first page rankings for all of your keywords. In addition, Google has stated in their webmaster guidelines that you should not be building links to a website because they look at it as a black hat practice that attempts to manipulate their ranking positions. Step 3) To build backlinks using only white hat practices, you can find websites that have broken links and notify the webmaster of a resource on your website that would be a suitable replacement, or you can purchase blogs & websites that already have natural backlinks.
Step 4) The SEO best practice is just to be continuously publishing related, relevant, and highquality content on your website. The content that you are putting on your website should be so good that when you share it through your social channels the visitors reading it will also want to share it on their own social networks, blogs, forums and websites. Step 5) Before long, you can accumulate a lot of backlinks from producing high-quality content alone. Most websites are able to beat their competition with about 1,000 backlinks from relevant, related and high-authority sources.
Step 6) You only want backlinks from relevant, related and high-authority sources pointing to your website because anything else will need to be disavowed in a negative SEO audit. Step 7) To download the backlinks to start a negative SEO audit, visit Google webmaster s console, click on the website you are optimizing, click on search traffic, and then click on links to your site in the left menu. On the next page, click on the link more under who links the most.
Step 8) On the next page, you have two options. The first is to download every domain that is linking to your website via the download this table button. The other option is to click on the download latest links button. Step 9) If you choose to download the table, there will be a lot less data to look through than the list of links. You can then sort through the domains and easily find the ones that aren t relevant to your website and put them in a separate file to be disavowed.
Step 10) The file you should be creating is an ASCII text document with the following formatting: Step 11) If you choose to look at the individual links, there might be hundreds if not thousands of individual links to sort through. The formatting in your.txt file is similar for links:
Step 12) The choice is up to you to disavow the entire domain or just one link at a time. Just keep in mind that if you disavow the domain, you will be disavowing all the links from that domain. Step 13) Once you have gone through your links and put all the bad ones you would like to have removed from your backlink profile in a text document, visit this webpage: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main
Step 14) Select the domain you are optimizing, click the disavow links button, read the information box on the next page, then click the disavow links button. Step 15) In the popup, select the.txt file you created and click the submit button. The system will process your file and tell you know how many domains and links you have disavowed. After that you are finished with the negative SEO audit and can click the done button.
Final Note) If all of this sounds too complicated or you just do not have the time to build backlinks for your domain or perform a negative backlink SEO audit, then we do offer a service that will take care of this for you. Just click the buy this service button inside Tidyrank next to this SEO lesson and our team will get started right away. Service starts at $79. Copyright 2015 Tidyrank, INC. All rights reserved. https://www.tidyrank.com/keyword-rank-checker