Link Building Beginner's Guide

Link building is an essential ingredient in ranking your website
highly on the major search engines. There, now that we've got
that brilliant grasp of the obvious out of the way let's move
on to what you can do to actually create them. Before we launch
into the nitty-gritty of link building, no beginners guide would
be complete without a brief explanation as to why links are
important and the different elements of them. Being a beginners
guide this won't be an entirely complete list but it will be
enough to get you going on the right path. Understanding what
you're trying to do will help you do it better and more
importantly, understanding the "why" of the situation will help
you stretch your tactics outside of this and other articles on
link building.

Why Are Links Important?

To put it simply: a link is a vote. Every link pointing to your
site from another website tells the search engines that the
other site finds your resource valuable and thus, the engines
read this as a vote for your site. So it must be about getting
tons of links and you're done right? Wrong. This is incorrect
as ...

Not All Votes Are Created Equal

Link Building Beginner's Guide