Today SEO expert Hp Sangha discusses the 5 Off-Site (Off-Page) SEO Strategies to Ditch. Follow these Basic rules and improve your website ranking and organic traffic as well.
Here Are Off-Site SEO Strategies No Working in 2024
- Buying or selling links
Google clearly states that buying backlinks to approve your rankings is against their webmaster guidelines. Google views links as a vote of authority for your site and as such it’s not ethical to be paying for these votes. This doesn’t stop bloggers from charging for links or SEO companies from paying for them.
Often bloggers will try to charge you for a blog post and use the justification that Matt Cutts called guest posting for SEO DEAD! So they put a price on it and call it a sponsored post. But no matter what your reasoning is or what you call it, paying for links is your ticket to ride the Google train to Penaltyville. Population – your website!
- Large-scale article marketing with keyword-rich anchor text
While it is great when people write about you and link back to your site, they need to be natural. As Google continues to change and improve its algorithm it is slowly weeding out the sites that engage in these poor techniques.
Stuffing the anchor text with your keywords on a large scale is not going to look natural and is sure to get negative attention at some point down the track.
- Excessively adding links to poor link directories
Adding your site to any website directory for that backlink will hurt your rankings and visibility. Most website directories provide little to no value to users and Google often excludes them from the SERPs. You don’t want your website to be there too.
- Placing optimized links in unhelpful forums or blog comments
Adding non-relevant links in blog or forum comments and overusing your keyword-rich anchor texts is the wrong way to gain valuable links. It is ok for your links to be there as long as it is relevant and add to the user experience.
- Link exchanges
Exchanging links with other websites for the sake of reciprocal linking will only land your website in hot water. For example, you have a plumbing website and you link to a dog groomer and that dog groomer links back to your website essentially, you have just created a worthless link that has no SEO value. This kind of behavior can result in a Google penalty.
High-quality link building is no easy task. Creating that is valuable to both users and your website takes a lot of time and effort. Never buy your backlinks or create worthless links. Focus on creating content and links that will benefit users and your online visibility will increase in the long term.
