Keeping Track of Your Backlinks
Google Search Console is a completely free SEO tool that helps monitor your backlinks and adds free detailed reports for top linked pages, top linked sites, and top linked anchor text. You can navigate to the “Links” option through the Google Search Console (GSC) left menu.
Conclusion
While you’re building backlinks to improve page authority and the overall Google PageRank, keep in mind that Google frowns with implementing the black hat SEO practices like using shortcuts, paying to build your backlink portfolio and all of that.
In white hat SEO best practices, there’s nothing like using quick-fixes to build quality links and all of those sub-standard methods used in building backlinks result in severe penalty. Backlinks that create a positive impact on search engine rankings are such that are naturally built over time from a good number of genuine sources (White hat SEO practices).
It takes time to build natural backlinks, but the end result is great. As you generate more quality backlinks, you see more improvements in your PageRank. As you climb up the PageRank, you get more organic traffic to your site.
Thank you so much for this post. I have a question: can backlinks alone make a site get great ranking on Google or any other search engine?
I noticed a company from which I ordered a site several years back makes extensive use of backlinks. There was very limited relevant content on the site. When I checked the ranking I noticed the site was way at the "bottom of the ladder."
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Google thrives to improve its machine learning algorithms so that the top results actually present the correct answer to the question you type in the search field.
Backlinks can still improve your rankings but it's very important they are from relevant sites and don't have over-optimized anchor text. Many people succeed well without building any links when your site builds authority and becomes more popular people will link to it naturally.
Always informative posts from you. I enjoy reading them. I learn more each time. I notice you have several backlinks to the content here in WA sprinkled throughout each of your posts.
You practice what you teach my friend, and that is always a good sign of quality.
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