Start Building Your Back Links Today
Posted in SEO by DB
I’ve been posting about SEO of late on Website Hosting and optimization and wanted to quickly touch upon back links in today’s post. ( It really goes to say what I’m busy doing at the moment. 
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Anyway back to today’s topic. Back links, incoming links or whatever you want to call it is a pretty big factor among the 200 or so odd factors that the Google algorithm takes into account when determining your PageRank and consequently your position on the search result pages.
Every back link is analyzed and the weight of a particular back link again depends on many factors. Today’s post is to look at one of those factors.
The age of the back link
The older your backlink the more points you get. It’s as simple as that and quite effective too as far as Google is concerned. Google tracks and gives more weightage to websites that have back links that are older. Again remember this is one factor that works in conjunction with many other factors but an important one nevertheless.
What does this mean to you and me? What this tells me is to start working on getting my back links and permanent ones at that as early as possible. Yes you need content to even start your link building but it is equally important to plan and pull in links as early as you can. Concentrate on content but the minute you have the basics in place then it’s time to start your link baiting or solicitation and don’t worry Google themselves say it is ok to approach other related websites for a link back as long as it is not a paid link.
Have you often wondered why it is not really that difficult to rank on page 2 for your keyword but is so freakin difficult to upset the top 3 positions on page 1? This is the one advantage you will always have if you get into a particular niche early enough and dominate it from the start. Build a good portfolio of incoming links right off the bat and continuously keep adding more. This will become your strongest ally when you have a competitor breathing down your neck.
Buying an existing website with relevant content and the right anchor text as well as aged backlinks is a whole lot more difficult than buying an aged domain. This is why the age of a link is an important factor in the search engines algorithm. Everything else can be easily or quite easily manipulated, be it authority domain links, domain age, relevant anchor text etc etc.
The sooner you realize this and act accordingly the better you and your website are off in the long term. Look and solicit links that are permanent.
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August 26th, 2008 at 1:00 am
Back links are most important part in SEO,each and every back links are like a vote for our website, if we get a back link from one good quality website that is like we get one good vote, or else that’s a bad vote for our site.