Backlinks & Google Ranking

partha · 2024-07-29T13:57:54Z

As promised, I wanted to "quickly" cover a few things about backlinks, so wanted to do it bullet point style (I seem to have killed bullet points on Google Docs atm, so just PRETEND that these are in bullet point format 🤣🤣🤣) There is a LOT more to backlinks than this, but I just wanted to get some basic stuff down for you, plus, I've left it open-ended, as I can guess that this may produce more questions than answers. So, if unsure about anything, just ask below and I'll answer (as quickly as possible... promise... I've asked my wife to stop making me go on weekend "holidays" because the weather is lovely 🤣🤣🤣 just in case any of you are wondering where I've been for the last few days, and I KNOW, many of you are waiting to hear from me... I'm coming... promise) Anyway, here's some "thoughts" that I've just put down for you: Backlink Bullet Points (without proper bullet points because I broke them 🤣🤣🤣) Backlinks are basically another website linking to your website, look upon it as a “vote of confidence” for your article/website. EVERYTHING online is a website, so even the Google Search page is a website, Wikipedia is a website, Facebook is a website, Wealthy Affiliate is a website, OpenAI is a website, etc. The only two types of backlinks you need to really know about are called “Foundational” and “Editorial” Foundational are typically backlinks that YOU create yourself, e.g. social and forum profiles, RSS feed platforms, web directories, social media platforms, web 2.0 properties, blog comments, etc. Editorial are backlinks that you can’t create yourself, but will require another website to add them for you, this is generally done via “outreach” (emailing the website owner and asking, and in some cases, paying for backlinks), e.g. guest posts, niche edits, broken link edits. Editorial backlinks usually carry more weight than foundational backlinks (as you CAN’T create them yourself) Backlinks can occur “naturally”, but only if your articles are getting traffic. Therefore, anyone who says “backlinks occur naturally” doesn’t fully understand the process. If an article is NOT getting any traffic, this means people aren’t visiting it, which in turn means that a website owner can’t link to you because they don’t know your article exists. Therefore, “writing quality articles” doesn’t guarantee backlinks, as if you’re not ranking in Google or getting traffic to that article, from say social media, then NO-ONE will find it (it doesn’t matter how much “quality” that article is, simple common sense, if people can’t find your articles they aren’t going to link to them). Foundational backlinks also form part of your websites “branding”. Your “online branding” simply involves putting your website name in the Google Search Bar and seeing how many different platforms “mention” (or link to) your website name. “Branding” is easiest achieved through creating one paragraph bios and adding this to numerous online platforms that allow you to create a profile, e.g. Facebook, YouTube, Twiiter/X, TikTok, Pinterest, Reddit, Quora, Linkedin, Medium, SubStack, Instagram, Amazon, Spotify, Forums in your niche, etc. Your bio should look something like: Partha Banerjee is the founder, owner, and main author at mybodyweightexercises.com. Partha is a qualified Personal Trainer and Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist. He shares his knowledge of everything related to health and fitness, mainly focused on strength training, cardio, and nutrition. You would then put your bio through ChatGPT , ask for 25-50 variations that are original and unique, but must include your name and your website address (your “branding” is based on your name and your website name). One of the main ways to create foundational backlinks is to to use web 2.0 properties, such as WordPress.com, Weebly.com, Wix.com, Blogger.com, LiveJournal.com, Tumblr.com, TypedPad.com, WikiDot.com, Xing.com (i can give you a list of 20+) These web 2.0 properties are basically blogging platforms, so you are essentially creating new websites and new blogs and then linking back to your own website. For quick and easy use of web 2.0 properties, choose 5-10 platforms. Create a “free website” on each platform. Treat each website as a “real website”, so write articles regularly, add internal and external links to your articles, bookmark/share your articles. Aim to add one article a week to EACH web 2.0 property, link to external niche-relevant websites, and link each article internally to each other. Add ONE external link to your own website from 5 articles published to that specific web 2.0 property. So, if you have created 20 web 2.0 websites, you will have 100 articles total (5 articles over 5 weeks x 20 websites), and 20 backlinks to your website (1 article out of the 5 articles links to your website x 20). For more in-depth and potentially more aut...

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I think it makes sense. I've been reading all day ... so I'll reread tomorrow to be certain:)

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Posted by: @partha

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However, if you want to go "big", and this was when I was thinking of Andy and his team of writers, you can actually create web 2.0 properties solely for backinks, but this would involve treating it like building a real website, so 100s of articles, having specific social media accounts JUST for that ONE web 2.0 property, so treat it in exactly the same way as you do your "real" websites.

Thinking 'big' ... we could even develop a piece of software to build out these web 2.0's for us. Not dissimilar to the SEO software I was dreaming about after a beer or two ... lol

https://digitalmatrixcafe.com/community/postid/2001494/

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