LINK BUILDING HOW IMPORTANT ?? Site ranking in Google search results is partly based on analysis of those sites that link to you. The quantity, quality, and relevance of links count towards your rating. The sites that link to you can provide context about the subject matter of your site, and can indicate its quality and popularity. However, some webmasters engage in link exchange schemes and build partner pages exclusively for the sake of cross-linking, disregarding the quality of the links, the sources, and the long-term impact it will have on their sites. This is in violation of Google guidelines and can negatively impact your site's ranking in search results. Examples of link schemes can include: Links intended to manipulate PageRank Links to web spammers or bad neighborhoods on the web Excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging ("Link to me and I'll link to you.") NO harm with 3 way links. Buying or selling links that pass PageRank The best way to get other sites to create relevant links to yours is to create unique, relevant content that can quickly gain popularity in the Internet community. The more useful content you have, the greater the chances someone else will find that content valuable to their readers and link to it. I have a client ranked under 600 with having 800 link (create by website owner) I never used to link building Just trying to improve better quality and services on web. Ppl automatically open a way for you. I never go to submission in directories (except B2B, which helpful), it gives you nothing! Excessive directory submission etc just count as spamming in Google. it is enough to get submit in 100 B2b directories in 3-4 month span, and 10-20 Qualities links. to get good ranked. Paid links Paid Links are violate the Google Guidelines. Google can De-index the website. once the site is De-index you have to submit for re consideration. USE Social Bookmarking for Building and tagging! Hope this will help! Thanks and Regards Suhaana Khan
Some good points about quality over quantity and backlinking practices to avoid but I'd have to say the it's still a game of quantity not just quality. If you want to get top search spot results of google for any keyword worth a dime you need lots of links. Just do a simple backlink search in yahoo for any top ranked site for any niche and you never see a site with 20 or 30 backlinks. Its usually 100's if not 1000's. It's unfortunate but true
So many sites with low page rank linking to your site won't harm you? It's just counted as "that many links to you" ?
In my opinion link building is extremely important. Most people do not have the luxury of having a good enough website to attract quality links. It is not always easy to just go and build a better website than your competitors. Most SEOs are stuck marketing subpar websites that they often don't have full control of. So you have no choice but to convince the search engines your website is good via link building. Until more behavioral factors get added to search engine algorithms, you can even get crappy websites decent rankings.