A Vote of Confidence in your Website
Backlinks are inbound links to a web page. A backlink is a link from a web page to another webpage. Links used to be a fundamental metric in ranking web pages.
Backlinks are crucial because they provide a “vote of confidence” between sites.
Backlinks to your website signal search engines that other sites recognize your content. Search engines can see if multiple websites link to the same web page and consider it essential to add content. These backlinks can improve the visibility and ranking of your site.
These are the terms you need to know about backlinks:
Anchor text:
This is the text that links to other websites. Anchor text backlinks are most effective when trying to rank for specific keywords.
Link juice
Link juice is when a website links to your blog post or your homepage. This link improves domain authority and helps rank legitimate posts. You can use the nofollow tag to block link juice as a blogger.
Thank you for this info. I would like to ask you two questions If I link to a website, but it is not affiliate link, shall I use no-follow or not? In one if the trainings here it said yes. And the affiliate links should be no- follow or sponsored?
My second question. When I look at my website in google, uber suggest tells me I have 23 backlinks. However, when I check them, most of them look the same or similar by name (yamen women) and if I want to open the site, it says the site cant be reached. Would you know what it is and why there are those backlinks?
Thank you
Regards
Nat
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If you put in a link to another website (not an affiliate) it will be considered as a backlink from your website to theirs. I do this all the time to authority websites and it's getting me some great backlinks when they reciprocate. I usually put a link in to their similar post to mine, so I don't make it a no-follow so that people can go and read their post.
Your affiliate links should be sponsored, although I often just click on open in a new page, it's up to you.
It is concerning that you can't reach that backlink. Are they connected to the type of niche that you have? It looks like Yemen women are about women's rights. If you can't see them doing your website image harm I wouldn't worry about these backlinks for now. You can always remove them later.
Have a great week Nat.
Lily
