Building Natural Inbound Links for SEO

royal Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:01 am

Google has made several changes to their algorithm to better improve their search engine and the majority of the time when they are making changes it is to fix bad practices or black hat practices of internet marketers.

In 2007 Google made some changes to the algorithm to not put much weight to those website who purchase paid links on other high PageRank websites. There were some companies who were in the business of brokering paid links and text links.

Those who were getting websites high in the search engines by buying links were then penalized and many of them dropped emphatically in the search engines. Some have wondered why Google would make such changes in the algorithm.

The foundation of Google’s algorithm is to rank websites that have grown and built up naturally without some type of detection, or in other words Google does not like to be fooled or schemed. In order to better their algorithm they look to find websites that grow in popularity because users think a website is popular, not because that website is buying their way up the search results so to speak. So the goal is to make your website have incoming links that look natural.

The next step is having the anchor text links not be all the same. For example if you are going after the keyword “web design” and all 200 links that are incoming links have the anchor text “web design” then that does not look natural. It is best to have a variety of anchor text for your incoming links in order to make it look more natural.

The next thing in building natural inbound links is to have the inbound links point to several pages within the website and not all of them to same page. Having deep links meaning links to subpages and not all of them to the home page will make your inbound links look more natural.

It is also crucial when building natural inbound links that they do not happen all at once in a short period of time and then stop. Especially for new websites it is imperative to not build incoming links at a very fast pace as this looks highly unnatural.

Building natural inbound links is essential in any SEO campaign. As the search engine’s algorithm sees that the inbound links to a website look more natural then they will respect the website more.