How Do You Identify a Good Link?

Good links rank you positively. It is not so easy to get good links. Your site benefits positively from getting links from sites with integrity and authority such as BBC, BusinessDay, Wall Street Journal, etc.

You can see that these are reputable sites and they’ll help boost the reputation of your site if you get a link from them.

Such esteemed backlinks are usually difficult to get. Backlinks that are so easy to get might not be worth it because it may not add the desired value to your site.

Before adding a backlink to your webpage, evaluate the features of the site from which you are obtaining the link. Make sure the content of the external webpage is relevant to your content.

Be sure that your topic and the topic of the linked site both have a lot of things in common, and that if your audience should follow that link, they are going to find useful content.

You can get links easily from forums when you reply to a thread. If the moderation on the forum is flexible, your link will remain.

Links from social media sites and SEOs do help to raise your ranking. Try to avoid spam sites as their links will not help your ranking at all.

If your link is not from a trustworthy site, whenever Google updates, you are likely to lose your ranking when the unreliable websites you linked from lose theirs.

It is better to earn links from trustworthy sites. This will show Google that your site has some useful content on it.

Contextual links: These are links that increase your rank more organically than links in the sidebars or footers.

Contextual links may be internal or external links. Contextual links are relevant because when search engines crawl web pages, they do consider the link alongside the context.

This means that the link is in relation to what the content is about.

Links that flow with the content: A good link shows significance to the context of the content. This shows that the link has some value that it adds to the content.

When there are links from pages with much content, they hold much more value than sites with shorter articles and less posting frequency.

Because Googlebot follows the behavior of users, and users have been observed to show a preference for long-form articles, the links in such longer and relevant articles are ranked higher.

Long-form, detailed content usually has more to say about a topic than short-form content. Of course, a topic with a word count of 1500 will delve more on a subject than the same topic of the 300-word count.

Your site should also contain "dofollow" and nofollow links. Both are important if they add some value to your content; however, "dofollow" links will improve your ranking more than nofollow links would do.

If you also get a link from a site that has a high Domain Authority, it is assumed that the link is relevant to the referring page. A good link follows the path Google wants.