Link Building Mistakes are quite common, especially for newbies to the niche. However, the acquisition of low-quality links, or even spammy links can be avoided if you know the tips and tricks. So, in this video, we explain how you can avoid the most common link-building mistakes ensuring you save your website's credibility.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:52 1. Avoiding On-Page SEO & Search Intent
02:31 2. Not Creating Linkworthy Content
03:38 3. Building Many Backlinks via Shady Tactics
05:06 4. Ignoring Link Relevancy
06:07 5. Not Diversifying Anchor Text and Sources
07:42 6. Not Performing Outreach in the Right Way
09:01 7. Ignoring Local SEO and Geo-Targeted Link-Building
10:27 8. Building Only Do-Follow Links
12:02 9. Excessive Reciprocal Link-Building
13:39 Bonus Tip: How To Analyze Potential Link-Building Prospects
15:35 Bloopers
Link Building the correct way is often quite a challenge. People make errors like ignoring user intent, ignoring anchor text diversity, or even disregarding on-page SEO while prioritizing solely on outreaching. Well, sometimes What NOT to do also becomes a neat checklist to ensure mistakes are eliminated, or at least minimized. We hope these Link link-building don'ts we mention in this video help you and lead you to Do's that actually matter.
Statista Survey of Focus Areas of SEO:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1402871/focus-areas-seo-worldwide/
John Mueller Answering Questions on Google Webmaster Central Office-Hours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNXSqRM7Xfs&ab_channel=GoogleSearchCentral&t=24m39s
Google's Post on Anchor Text:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/links-crawlable
Google's Post on Link Attributes:
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/09/evolving-nofollow-new-ways-to-identify#:~:text=For%20crawling%20and%20indexing%20purposes,URLs%20from%20Google%20help%20page.
Aira Survey on Link Building:
https://aira.net/state-of-link-building/link-building-measurement-and-reporting/
Ahrefs Study on Reciprocal Links:
https://ahrefs.com/blog/reciprocal-links/