How A Link Can Help Your Website

HOW WILL A LINK HELP WEBSITE? MY Not all links are equally valuable for your website. Answer the questions below to see how a link from a particular web page might be able to help. IS THE WEBPAGE PUBLICALLY VIEWABLE? NO YES CAN THE SPIDER READ THE PAGE? NO (NO FRAMES, NO JAVASCRIPT, NO AJAX, NO ROBOTS EXCLUSION, ETC) YES # OF LINKS TO PAGE? NONE PAGE FACTORS FOR LINK SOME LINK FACTORS IS LINK REDIRECTED? NO YES LOSE A WHAT KIND OF REDIRECT? LITTLE VALUE 302 301 IS LINK YES "NOFOLLOWP? NO POTENTIAL POTENTIAL TO SEND VISITORS TO INCREASE SEARCH RANKING Although this link This link could help increase your website's authority and increase your organic search engine rankings as a result. Even if all these factors are true not all links like this are equally valuable. Other factors such as the |authority of the web page on which it is found and the anchor text that forms the clickable link can make this link more or less valuable. probably won't help increase your search engine ranking, links like this can still send visitors your website. The value of these links are largely based upon the amount of traffic to the website on which the link is found and where on the page the link appears- the more visits to the website and the more obvious the link, the more visits this link can send to your website. While a link might increase your organic search ranking even if a human never uses it and an increase in ranking can send many more visitors than any one link, the best link building strategy attempts to build links for humans that also helps SEO efforts. VISITORS vs. SEO- A FALSE DICHOTOMY Infographic produced by SEOrisk.com Learn about link building (and other SEO tactics) each rated according to risk at SEOrisk.com. Copyright 2012 David Zimmerman