You may have read this headline and thought to yourself, “Wait… A link is a link right? What’s the difference?”
Well, believe it or not, there actually is a huge difference between the type of links that can help your website with your search engine ranking and the type of links that can hurt your search engine ranking.
Links that help your website:
Good links are links to or from other high quality websites that have been deemed as valuable by the search engines. Links from authority websites help increase your search engine results, and help you get found more often. The same is true for industry-related websites that are updated frequently with fresh content.
For example, if you are a dog groomer, links from a pet store or veterinarian would been seen as more valuable than a link from a CPA’s website.
Examples of good links:
Links that hurt your website:
Bad links are links to or from other websites that search engines have deemed as low quality, been associated with spam, operate as link farms, or practice unethical search engine optimization practices. The same is true for websites that have zero relevancy to your business or your target market. These links actually hurt your search engine results.
Examples of bad links:
Do you know of other good or bad link information? If so, please share it with me!
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Great tips. I enjoyed your article below too on design. You included the perfect picture too.
Thanks Ryan! I appreciate you stopping by the blog and checking it out!
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I agree all links are not created equally. However, I question how much a “bad link” can hurt your website. If that were true wouldn’t it be easy for companies to sabotage your website by creating links from all the worst places?
Joe – Bad links can detract from your ranking and results. That is why it is just as important to monitor the inbound links to your site as it is to create them. Being a brand and website guardian is an important factor in search engine optimization. You’ve got to monitor what is going on and ask for links to be removed, indexed pages to be removed, and snippets that have been created to be removed when appropriate.