Backlink is one of the most important factors for SEO. But, please keep in mind, there are the others as well.
Backlinks are important to search engine optimisation (SEO) since they point towards your website and can positively influence the chances of your website being seen by search engines. Search engines use these links to crawl your website and determine your website’s worth to search engine users. Link building is a strategy of attracting links to your website or blog from other relevant websites and blogs. While you can gain backlinks from guest blogging, creating content on your own blog, and developing a meaningful and helpful relationship with other bloggers, the most common method is to use link building software to automate the process. That’s because link building takes a lot of effort, and you can’t be expected to do all of that work by hand.
SEO Best Practices – Full Checklist
Backlinks
- Only high-quality backlinks
- Use tools to find backlink opportunities
- Directly contact websites and blogs that are relevant for your site and ask them for a backlink
Website Speed
- Your website shouldn’t take more than 4 seconds to load
- Use tools to check your website speed and to see what is slowing down your site
Mobile
- Use a responsive web design
- Make sure your page loads quickly on mobile, less than 3 seconds
Voice Search
- Use long-tail keywords
- Answer specific questions within your content
Video Content
- Create videos for your blog and website
- Informational / how-to videos are especially good to come up high on SERP
- Use keywords with a high search volume
Blog Content
- Produce easy to read content
- Make sure your content is of high-quality
- Produce longer content
- Your content need to be fresh and up-to date
Headings, Title Tag, Meta Description
- Unique title and meta descriptions
- Include keywords
- Title tag: up to 60 characters (spaces included)
- Meta Description: between 70 and 160 characters (spaces included)
Keywords
- Include keywords in title, meta description, headings, and main content
- Include LSI keywords and long-tail keywords
This content was taken with permission from Twinword’s article on SEO Best Practices
