Backlinks FAQs - All about Backlinking

Finally, I am writing my 100th hub. I wanted this hub to be something special. Thus, I present this hub to my fellow hubbers especially the newbies as a help to them for understanding backlinks better. Here I am not going to brag about the importance of backlinks as most of you are already aware of their value and the ones who are unaware of this fact will soon find it. In HubPages forums and other forums, I continuously see people asking basic questions about backlinks, and I am writing this hub to answer the commonly arisen questions.

Now. the FAQs!!!

NOFOLLOW links are the hyperlinks that contain rel="nofollow" tag in them. This tag is for the search engine spiders telling them not to follow the given link and thus it is not counted as a backlink towards your website or webpage. But according to some bloggers with high reputation, a few thousand NOFOLLOW backlinks have helped them with their search engine rankings.

So, the bottom line is that getting a NOFOLLOW link is a waste of time, but if you can not get non-NOFOLLOW links, then get NOFOLLOWs.

As opposed to NOFOLLOW, the DOFOLLOW backlinks are crawled by search engine spiders and have a much higher SEO value.

SheToldMe.com is a site where you can easily get DOFOLLOW backlinks just by writing a 200 character short summery of your articles.

This is simple: 

1. View page source by right clicking on a page. 

2. See if the hyperlinks there contain rel="nofollow".

3. If hyperlinks have the above mentioned tag, then they are NOFOLLOW, otherwise they are DOFOLLOW.

As mentioned above, get NOFOLLOWs. Although very little, but they have some link value.

The ones from a page related to the content of your page. The ones from the pages that have same meta tags and keyword as your page.

To find out some ways of getting backlinks easily, read my article on getting backlinks here: How to get Backlinks.

The words you use for the backlink. 

For example: How to get traffic to my website

In the above example, the anchor text is: "How to get traffic to my website".

You must use the keywords you are trying to rank for in your anchor text. So, instead of using "my hub" or "my website" as an anchor text, use your keywords.

Yes, you should. Google don't have enough stall to analyze web pages manually and rank them. Thus they rely on their algorithm for this purpose. So having the same anchor text every time you get a backlink might trigger the spam filter because the search engines might think that the person is using an automated system to get backlinks.

No, you won't be penalized as you have no control over who links to your website, blog or hubs. I am sure Google won't give you the benefit of these backlinks.

The Ezine articles directory, which is commonly known as EZA, is a place where you submit articles for your promotion and getting backlinks. First I was reluctant to submit articles to EZA but then I tried doing this and it did help my search engine rankings. So, I will recommend it.

Generally link directories have lost their importance for backlinks as they do not add content to the web and are made solely for backlinks. However, a few quality link directories that include only the quality websites in their directory still have good amount of SEO value like Dmoz and yahoo directory.

These were the answers to some basic questions I thought would arise in your minds regarding backlinks. If you need to know anything else about the topic, please ask me by commenting below.

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