I’ll list some of them just in case: backlinks from the sites with the bad reputation or even banned sites; backlinks from sites with irrelevant niche; backlinks from sites with tons of links. High-quality link with wrong anchor text By saying “wrong”, I mean: “junk” anchor text like “here”, “there”, “read more”, “visit” “go to”, “click here” “check this” and so on. You can use some SEO tools like Serpstat to find out how your link profile looks like and see your most common anchors Enter your domain into the Serpstat search line, go to the “Backlink analysis” module and then to “Anchors” to see such a cloud: Using only dofollow or only nofollow links Dofollow link will pass the SEO strength to the site that it links to. In other words, only person can use nofollow link, search robots ignore them and don’t count them as a backlink for a page ranking. Stealing competitors’ mistakes One of the most common ways to find links is to take a peek at competitors. You can check your competitor’s backlinks here: But you always should keep in mind that even the reputable blogs can be wrong sometimes. Serpstat Page Rank – how influential a URL/domain might be based on how many sites link to it. Moreover, it is better to send people to the page they need, rather than force them to search it by themselves inserting a link to the main page. So, as you see, my thought is about the balance. Ask yourself if your backlinks look natural, spend more time choosing the sources, always use your brain and you’ll get all the profit from the process.
Some people think that blogging is not a big deal. Surfing the web and writing all day for money – sounds perfect. But they would be impressed by the number of things every blogger has to keep in mind.
One of such a thing – building backlinks. This process has so many steps and sides, so it’s quite easy to mess things up.
In this article, I’ll share some common backlink mistakes so you can fix them on your blog or be cheerful if you don’t have them.
The obvious ones
I think it’s no use in describing the obvious mistakes. I’ll list some of them just in case:
- backlinks from the sites with the bad reputation or even banned sites;
- backlinks from sites with irrelevant niche;
- backlinks from sites with tons of links.
Of course, such links won’t bring you any profit, it probably will cause a lot of damage instead. But I think it’s not that tough to keep in mind that you shouldn’t connect with banned domains or promote cocktail dresses on the blog about fishing.
I want to point out unobvious mistakes, many bloggers aren’t thinking of.
High-quality link with wrong anchor text
By saying “wrong”, I mean:
- “junk” anchor text like “here”, “there”, “read more”, “visit” “go to”, “click here” “check this” and so on. A lot of experts say that they’re not useful at all, some of them tend to the opposite thoughts. The truth is that you just can’t completely avoid such anchors. They look natural, can increase conversion rates and mix up your commercial anchors. So, you can use them sometimes, but if you’ve found a really high-quality donor, it’s better to use keyword or name of the brand as an anchor text.
- anchor spam – using the same anchor text too often. Sometimes it causes the ranking drop or even backlinking penalties. And again, just try to mix it with related keywords.
You can use some SEO tools like Serpstat to find out how your link profile looks like and see…
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