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An Advanced Guide to Link Building – 7 Must-Have Strategies

Guide to Link Building

During a March Q&A Session with WebPromo Expert, Andrey Lipattsev—a Search Quality Senior Strategist at Google—revealed Google’s top three ranking factors: links, content, and RankBrain. Marketers have since begun to improve their link building efforts and backlink strategies, thanks to companies like the rank way.

Some websites, as expected, went the way of the black hat. They scored higher rankings by manipulating the number of links leading to their page. A later update—codenamed Google Penguin—managed to successfully weed out those employing link schemes and similar black-hat SEO tactics and de-rank them.

With those issues addressed, the focus shifted entirely to link quality, not quantity.

Create Link-Worthy Content

We know that SEO is one of the most effective ways to drive high-quality traffic to our website. However, good quality backlinks continue to be the foundation of every successful SEO strategy. They help improve the rankings of your website as well as your content such as blog posts & infographics. One great backlink to your home page has the potential to boost the rankings of every page on your website.

So what is the simplest way to get backlinks?

Sure, you can slip into the shady corners of the internet looking for high-authority websites that will give you an easy backlink, or dive into the numerous black hat forums that let you buy hundreds of links for a pittance. However, as we’ve seen from the numerous horror stories of websites being penalized, you can’t game link building – you need to earn backlinks.

The simplest way to earn quality backlinks is to create link-worthy content. It may sound boring but trust me, it’s a lot easier and faster to earn backlinks this way than spam thousands of bloggers with your commenting or broken link outreach strategy.

Let’s go deeper and see how content earns links, and how you can engineer your content to do all the link building on its own.

If you want to boost your business, you should forget about acquiring customers with emails and phone calls. Today you will need to learn the principles of content marketing and how to market generations on social media. It is necessary to be sure that the brand you are representing or the products you are selling are going to attract all generations.

The task to market generations on social media isn’t easy. The simplest example is that Baby Boomers and Millennials are consuming content at different times of the day.

In terms of preferences, Baby Boomers cherish loyalty, being original and unique. Generation X has mastered online shopping enough to know everything about coupons and free samples of the product. Millennials tend to be focused on innovations and trust online reviews.

The youngsters from Generation Z are likely to be influenced by famous people and real life experiences. They have matured from traditional toys and have their own understanding of life.

In order to sell your brand and connect and build your audiences’ trust, you need to use the strategies of targeted marketing. Especially when you are marketing to a generation that is different from yours.

Surprisingly, even the Greatest Generation – the people who have seen war, also hang out online at times. They deserve to be treated well. That’s why they are targeted with respectful direct messages.

To find out more, please check the following infographic on how to market generations on social media: