Recieved this question today...
Does a backlink help your ranking and if so, what is it and how do you make them?
Backlinks are any incoming links from webpages that link to your webpage. (This includes home page or inter webpages) Backlinks are also called incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links. (some people call reciprocal links backlink also)
Backlinks are an indication of the popularity or importance of your website or webpage. Search engines use the number of backlinks for websites as one of the factors for determining your ranking.
To search Google for backlinks:
Go to http://goggle.com
In the search box type ... link:your website name
Example: link:www.reedcross.com/ which has 37 backlinks
To search Yahoo for backlinks
Go to http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
In the search box type ... your website name
Example: www.reedcross.com/ which has 544 backlinks
Second example: reedcross.com/ which has12 backlinks
Notice you recieve different results...
BIG HINT: Google no longer adds your backlink together. Example: url, url/default, url/index, www.url, www.url/default, www.url/index should all redirect to your home page. Google added all these backlinks as one group until the BigDaddy Dance in March '06. Now Goggle counts each url name as a seperate page. Be sure to use your primary url in your links (this website is using www.reedcross.com as it's primary url). If you are linking to an inter webpage, be sure to use your primary url plus the webpage name. Example: www.reedcross.com/half_dozen_roses.htm
To search MSN for backlinks
Go to http://msn.com
In the search box type ... link:your website name (be sure to include the http://)
Example: www.reedcross.com/ which has 465 backlinks
What does a backlink look like...
Example Good Link:
<a href="http://www.reedcross.com"> Eugene Oregon florist, Reed Cross Flower Shop</a>
AVERAGE mistake most people make...
<a href="http://www.reedcross.com">www.reedcross.com</a>
the green is your anchor text tag part of the backlink... besides the link itself, these keywords are the most important part of a backlink.
How do you make them?
When you create your website, your navigation to inter webpages create backlinks...
Let's go back to our example www.reedcross.com (this is their home page) Here are the backlinks the spiders read and follow from that home page:
http://www.reedcross.com/
http://reedcross.com/flowers.htm
http://reedcross.com/plants.htm
http://reedcross.com/gift_baskets.htm
http://reedcross.com/gifts.htm
http://reedcross.com/clothing.htm
http://www.goemerchant1.com/index.cgi?ST=buy&Merchant=reedandcr.. (this is his shopping cart)
http://reedcross.com/search_page.htm
http://reedcross.com/company_information.htm
http://reedcross.com/housewares.htm
http://www.bellospa.com/
http://reedcross.com/site_index.htm
http://www.reedcross.com/
BIG HINT: Notice they wasted two links that go back to their home page and you are already on the home page. Are they trying to create additional hits to the home page to increase their traffic count...OH, blackhat SEO or mistake?
All these backlinks from inter webpages in your website count in the pagerank, but not as muck as backlinks from other related websites. Example: www.reedcross.com/half_dozen_roses.htm linking back to the home page www.reedcross.com will add pagerank to the home page, but not as much as realflorists.flowerchat.com/ (FlowerChat Blog) linking to the home page www.reedcross.com.
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Does a backlink help your ranking and if so, what is it and how do you make them?
Backlinks are any incoming links from webpages that link to your webpage. (This includes home page or inter webpages) Backlinks are also called incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links. (some people call reciprocal links backlink also)
Backlinks are an indication of the popularity or importance of your website or webpage. Search engines use the number of backlinks for websites as one of the factors for determining your ranking.
To search Google for backlinks:
Go to http://goggle.com
In the search box type ... link:your website name
Example: link:www.reedcross.com/ which has 37 backlinks
To search Yahoo for backlinks
Go to http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
In the search box type ... your website name
Example: www.reedcross.com/ which has 544 backlinks
Second example: reedcross.com/ which has12 backlinks
Notice you recieve different results...
BIG HINT: Google no longer adds your backlink together. Example: url, url/default, url/index, www.url, www.url/default, www.url/index should all redirect to your home page. Google added all these backlinks as one group until the BigDaddy Dance in March '06. Now Goggle counts each url name as a seperate page. Be sure to use your primary url in your links (this website is using www.reedcross.com as it's primary url). If you are linking to an inter webpage, be sure to use your primary url plus the webpage name. Example: www.reedcross.com/half_dozen_roses.htm
To search MSN for backlinks
Go to http://msn.com
In the search box type ... link:your website name (be sure to include the http://)
Example: www.reedcross.com/ which has 465 backlinks
What does a backlink look like...
Example Good Link:
<a href="http://www.reedcross.com"> Eugene Oregon florist, Reed Cross Flower Shop</a>
AVERAGE mistake most people make...
<a href="http://www.reedcross.com">www.reedcross.com</a>
the green is your anchor text tag part of the backlink... besides the link itself, these keywords are the most important part of a backlink.
How do you make them?
When you create your website, your navigation to inter webpages create backlinks...
Let's go back to our example www.reedcross.com (this is their home page) Here are the backlinks the spiders read and follow from that home page:
http://www.reedcross.com/
http://reedcross.com/flowers.htm
http://reedcross.com/plants.htm
http://reedcross.com/gift_baskets.htm
http://reedcross.com/gifts.htm
http://reedcross.com/clothing.htm
http://www.goemerchant1.com/index.cgi?ST=buy&Merchant=reedandcr.. (this is his shopping cart)
http://reedcross.com/search_page.htm
http://reedcross.com/company_information.htm
http://reedcross.com/housewares.htm
http://www.bellospa.com/
http://reedcross.com/site_index.htm
http://www.reedcross.com/
BIG HINT: Notice they wasted two links that go back to their home page and you are already on the home page. Are they trying to create additional hits to the home page to increase their traffic count...OH, blackhat SEO or mistake?
All these backlinks from inter webpages in your website count in the pagerank, but not as muck as backlinks from other related websites. Example: www.reedcross.com/half_dozen_roses.htm linking back to the home page www.reedcross.com will add pagerank to the home page, but not as much as realflorists.flowerchat.com/ (FlowerChat Blog) linking to the home page www.reedcross.com.
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