Hi friends, I was just thinking if anyone could elaborate on the actual benefit of having backlinks, is it to : 1. trick the search engines so that they think that you have tons of quality backlinks, content and value ? 2. get leads clicking through and buying from your website ? Or something else
Backlinks = traffic You can get traffic from people visiting the links to your website. The holy grail is backlinks can help you increase your search engine rankings which will bring some traffic.
Yeah, what they said. And it's not a trick. It's just the way the system works. Backlinks are an essential piece to optimizing for better search results.
The better quailty your backlinks are and the more you have, the higher your placement will be in the organic listings. If you get good quality links that are within your niche like if you are in weight loss and you get links from other weight loss the higher your pr will move up.
i agreed that backlinks played an important role in determining the pagerank and website value in search engines, but in case of traffic, it won't do anything much. very less people are clicking on signature links, footer links of websites, rss backlinks, etc
I think placing an backlink on forum, blog comment and similar other places won't increase traffic in direct, but it's done to cheat google and get better search results.
The true benefit is getting traffic and true intension is to increase the link popularity and in return get the top position in google for the targetted keywords used as anchor text in backlinks
Having backlinks built is absolutely essential. You can easily build a presense around search engine traffic. Google will see a backlink especially a good pr one as a vote, so it is really important to build links.
this is one of the most important things that you can do to help your website with regard to internet marketing and search engine results
Backlinks are very important since Google ranks a site in its search results on the basis of its backlinks. Its a great way for Google to find the quality of a page, since users will only link to a page if it has useful content. That's why we try to keep our backlinks as natural as possible.
It's like you in the real world. Good contacts = Better Business = Better Grip in the Community. Backlinks is what you are to the Search engines !