One of the most time consuming parts of optimizing a website for search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo, is called link building. This is the process of getting links to your website from other sites so that you get what’s referred to as a backlink. Backlinks are good for a few different reasons. First of all, the more links going to your site, the better the chances of someone following them. More importantly, search engines like Google use backlinks with keywords in the title to determine where you stand in their ranking, so link building is very important.
The most important thing to remember about link building is the difference between DoFollow and NoDoFollow links. A DoFollow link will be followed by a search engine spider, or bot so that it can be indexed into that particular search engine’s database. A NoDoFollow link will not be followed, and thus not indexed or counted to your overall page ranking. Many blogs and forums now set external links as NoDoFollow to discourage spam, so be careful when link building.
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