1. Referral Traffic
Backlinks are a great way to get more referral traffic. A user reading a blog post can click the link to learn more about the topic.
Referral traffic is generally targeted and has a low bounce.
2. You Need to Improve Organic Rankings
Backlinks are a great way to improve search engine rankings.
When you type the search term “SEO backlinks” into the SEMrush SERP Analysis, you’ll see that high-ranking pages have many backlinks.
Your site will rank higher in SERPs if it receives links from relevant sites. They must link to your individual pages and homepage.
3. Quick Indexing
Search engine bots use backlinks from other websites to find new pages. They can only crawl your site if they see such links.
Backlinks are what search engine bots use to locate your website. They are essential, especially for new websites. They help them to find your site and list it faster.
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
