Back links – the sledge hammers of search engine optimisation

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There is no point in creating a website unless you have thought about how you are going to get visitors. It doesn’t matter what content you intend to put on your web pages there can only be one reason for a web pages existence and that is to get people to visit it. You should devote your energies to getting the search engines to direct as many visitors as possible to your web pages. The most economical and focused traffic is delivered by the search engines.

Search engine incomes are directly related to the number of relevant results they present to their users. The more relevant and precise the search results the better the user experience and therefore the greater the chance the user will user will return. User loyalty directly translates to a stronger brand and higher revenues for the search engines. The search engine objectives are very similar to the ones you should set for your web pages.Make your users experience your number one priority so they return to your web pages time and time again.

So what exactly must you do?. You have two choices but there is nothing to stop you doing both if you have money and time. You can write useful and relevant content or you can use the advertising methods offered by search engines and other properties.

Search engines have a simple philosophy that nothing exists on the web without a keyword or a key phrase . Searches always begin with the entry of a keyword or phrase into the ‘search box’. The keyword entered by the user causes the search engine to search its indexes for the most accurate and relevant web pages. Search engines use relevance and authority to decide what pages get returned and presented to the searcher.

Authority is determined in the main by search engines view of how many back links a web page has and relevance is related to the presence of keywords in the content of the web page(s). The profile in terms of authority and the volume of back links are used by the search engines in deciding the position or ranking of a web page in the list of search results.

Back links are the sledge hammers of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation).

Back links have two major functions – routing traffic to your web pages and helping the search engines determine the ranking of your web pages in the results returned by a user search. Browsers who discover and click on back links containing keywords associated with their interests will be directed to your web pages. The technical term for text associated with a back link is “anchor text” and this play a role in the value attributed to every back link discovered by the search engines. Back links can vary in value.

The search engines give authority to web pages which can be passed on to your web pages through the back links.Significantly authoritative web pages can pass some of their authority through the back links to your page.

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