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Predictable linking patterns is something that the ever-evolving algorithms are designed to identify and understand if they amount to spamming and penalising such practices thereon.
Thus, Link diversity is an exercise to maintain randomness of your backlink profile thereby avoiding repetitive linking patterns that can get your site penalized.
Thus, Link diversity is an exercise to maintain randomness of your backlink profile thereby avoiding repetitive linking patterns that can get your site penalized.
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What Does Link Diversity Exactly Mean?
The strategy of procuring links from different pages such as news links, articles, directories etc. or getting some from varied domains like .net, .edu, .com, and others.
In simple terms, it's using a variety and different types of links to ensure a random footprint that appears natural to the algorithms or are difficult to track easily in order to eliminate any risks of penalties.
By following a carefully planned backlink diversity, SEOs endeavor to prevent any sort of roadblocks to organic rankings and traffic as a result.
In simple terms, it's using a variety and different types of links to ensure a random footprint that appears natural to the algorithms or are difficult to track easily in order to eliminate any risks of penalties.
By following a carefully planned backlink diversity, SEOs endeavor to prevent any sort of roadblocks to organic rankings and traffic as a result.
You can consider this as a 'car analogy' for SEO where Website is the engine, Content represents the Wheels, Backlinks are Gas, and link diversity as lubricating agent.
Now you yourself can imagine how much importance link diversity holds and building links without this can just land you up in a gamble game.
Just think of Amazon and observe how random their links are, flowing from a plethora of sources such as site types, power levels, and more.
When you are building links for yourself or your clients, keeping your site protected for standing the test of time is important.
The sites that maintain a diversified link profile facilitates the website protection & safety in every way.
Now you yourself can imagine how much importance link diversity holds and building links without this can just land you up in a gamble game.
Just think of Amazon and observe how random their links are, flowing from a plethora of sources such as site types, power levels, and more.
When you are building links for yourself or your clients, keeping your site protected for standing the test of time is important.
The sites that maintain a diversified link profile facilitates the website protection & safety in every way.
Who All Have To Maintain Link Diversity?
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Though there are more than 200+ factors that are responsible for your sites ranking high or low, link building with link diversity is one of the most important among them.
There is no clear-cut rule of providing safety to your site due to the nature of the algorithms that may prove any SEO wrong due to its sheer dynamism.
Thus the diversified backlink profile of your website will surely keep your site look natural, random, safe (from penalties & competitor threats), and above all worthy.
Here’s a brief about different backlinks types that are easy to acquire and most commonly used for the purpose, a mix of these links can help you ensure a natural and diversified link profile.
- All those who place links manually may unknowingly follow a repetitive pattern, so link diversity is the answer to this.
- All the webmasters, SEO agencies who run the risk from their competitors using malpractice to hurt their website by using poor, low-quality, or compromised links in order to rank higher
Though there are more than 200+ factors that are responsible for your sites ranking high or low, link building with link diversity is one of the most important among them.
There is no clear-cut rule of providing safety to your site due to the nature of the algorithms that may prove any SEO wrong due to its sheer dynamism.
Thus the diversified backlink profile of your website will surely keep your site look natural, random, safe (from penalties & competitor threats), and above all worthy.
Here’s a brief about different backlinks types that are easy to acquire and most commonly used for the purpose, a mix of these links can help you ensure a natural and diversified link profile.
Guest Posting Or Sponsored Links
A post is something when you write something on your own blog but when any article is written and then posted on the blog of some other person then it's a guest post.
Mostly the guest posts are newly written articles and do not possess any age or pre-existing backlinks (inner pages of niche related sites). They are also called power links and are usually contextual.
They are loved as they are:
Everything has advantages and disadvantages. So, guest posts are somewhat more expensive than the niche edit links. They may also take time to work and with articles having no pre-existing links could lack power though may have high authority.
Mostly the guest posts are newly written articles and do not possess any age or pre-existing backlinks (inner pages of niche related sites). They are also called power links and are usually contextual.
They are loved as they are:
- Natural
- Contextual
- Niche relevant
- Are mentioned on extremely influential sites
Everything has advantages and disadvantages. So, guest posts are somewhat more expensive than the niche edit links. They may also take time to work and with articles having no pre-existing links could lack power though may have high authority.
Niche Edits Or Link Inserts
These are also great and pretty similar to guest posts with a couple of differences mentioned below:
- The articles may possess pre-existing backlinks in case of niche edits.
- The niche edits are not as expensive as the guest posts.
- Links are also edited into the pre-existing articles.
- You do not have command control over the article.
The Bottom Line:
The above two are the most renowned & impressively powerful link types which help in pushing sites to the top positions in the SERPs.
Again using one heavily may show a particular pattern, so using them in a combination is great for backlink diversification.
Both these compliment each other brilliantly and due to the reasonable price point the niche edits are used more.
The above two are the most renowned & impressively powerful link types which help in pushing sites to the top positions in the SERPs.
Again using one heavily may show a particular pattern, so using them in a combination is great for backlink diversification.
Both these compliment each other brilliantly and due to the reasonable price point the niche edits are used more.
Pillow Links Or Foundation Links
These links help in maintaining naturalness and diversity all through the ranking process.
These are often no follow links and do not comprise of a target keyword either. So to diversify your target page's link profile you can use them as padding or insulation for your site.
If it is an extremely low-competitive niche then only you may expect some site ranking with pillow links otherwise they do not help in direct ranking of your websites.
I am not mentioning all types of pillow links here but most of them you can build on your own and generally for free.
These are often no follow links and do not comprise of a target keyword either. So to diversify your target page's link profile you can use them as padding or insulation for your site.
If it is an extremely low-competitive niche then only you may expect some site ranking with pillow links otherwise they do not help in direct ranking of your websites.
I am not mentioning all types of pillow links here but most of them you can build on your own and generally for free.
Web 2.0s
The Web 2.0 platform allows you to create your own mini websites and while building links you can get links from users, authors, and website profiles on the other sites. Just keep in mind that these are not just limited to blogs or social microblogging sites.
Some examples:
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When you create a Web 2.0 using some great relevant content and link it back to your site, then a genuine and natural pillow link is created.
This is all because the domain will have high authority and creating contextual backlinks will be something you will be permitted for with your anchor text choices.
These are cost effective links and you can use for low to medium competition niche keywords. They prove effective as they offer:
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Some examples:
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- Wikipedia
- Web blog sites
When you create a Web 2.0 using some great relevant content and link it back to your site, then a genuine and natural pillow link is created.
This is all because the domain will have high authority and creating contextual backlinks will be something you will be permitted for with your anchor text choices.
These are cost effective links and you can use for low to medium competition niche keywords. They prove effective as they offer:
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- Extra keyword associations to pages that are ranking already
- Boost Slipping Ranks
- Aids in consolidating presence in a competitive niche in some cases
Social And Forum Profiles
These are pretty simple to make as you can create your profile on forums and social networking sites. You are allowed to include a link in your info.
These work good for new sites as by using several such links their online presence is increased for the future. Facebook is one such platform where you can make your business page and insert your website's URL.
In no case you can overdo them and most of them are no-follow links which are not very powerful. But they still hold importance as they are brilliant tools for driving trust, relevance, and diversification to your site.
These work good for new sites as by using several such links their online presence is increased for the future. Facebook is one such platform where you can make your business page and insert your website's URL.
In no case you can overdo them and most of them are no-follow links which are not very powerful. But they still hold importance as they are brilliant tools for driving trust, relevance, and diversification to your site.
Directories And Citations
Niche related directories and citations are the commonest way of procuring links for affiliate and local websites alike. This is a place where you can offer complete information about your business.
The entire information is accumulated, stored, and listed (catalogs) proving of much help to the people who are in search of any specific services.
Both are similar in nature where citations facilitate users to list their name, address, and phone no. - NAP. Both these permit you to add your site URL thereby gaining a backlink. These links are free, easy to get, and natural (for real businesses) too.
The entire information is accumulated, stored, and listed (catalogs) proving of much help to the people who are in search of any specific services.
Both are similar in nature where citations facilitate users to list their name, address, and phone no. - NAP. Both these permit you to add your site URL thereby gaining a backlink. These links are free, easy to get, and natural (for real businesses) too.
Forum Posts & Blog Comments
Though links pointing back to your site were used quite heavily for SEO purposes in forum posts and blog comments.
Still they are good for pillowing but should not be done more in order to stay natural. Keep these two things in mind strictly when you place or get a link from a blog comment or a forum post:
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- The comments or posts should be legitimate and useful
- Abusing URL and anchor text opportunities come with a big 'No' (like using an exact-match keyword similar to your name on a blog comment.)
Question & Answer Links
Q & A links are quite similar to the above forum posts and blog comments but come from a different site type which is trustworthy and well-known.
Ensure you do not over do them and provide relevant answers without linking them in any spammy ways. There are fair chances of your answer being removed if you fail to follow the rules.
Sites such as Reddit, Quora, and Yahoo answers are the place where you will see or use such links.
They have the potential to drive additional traffic and you should also try to make them valuable in every way possible.
Ensure you do not over do them and provide relevant answers without linking them in any spammy ways. There are fair chances of your answer being removed if you fail to follow the rules.
Sites such as Reddit, Quora, and Yahoo answers are the place where you will see or use such links.
They have the potential to drive additional traffic and you should also try to make them valuable in every way possible.
Press Releases
Press releases are again a platform where placing links within your article can fetch your site immense popularity. You just need to submit newsworthy articles and Press releases take the responsibility to distribute them to a huge network of new sites.
These were also used well and abused well in the past. But to keep them valuable using only branded and naked anchors should be the choice.
Since the distribution press release is undertaken on several sites so keeping them natural and non-spammy is crucial.
These were also used well and abused well in the past. But to keep them valuable using only branded and naked anchors should be the choice.
Since the distribution press release is undertaken on several sites so keeping them natural and non-spammy is crucial.
Hope the above a write up on Link Diversity shall enrich your understanding about building an effective backlinking strategy.
There’s more to it, should you need to learn more about link building, here’s my free Ebook on Structured Approach To Link Building that will put a full stop to all your doubts regarding building backlinks.
If you wish to discuss a project or your client SEO, I offer a free 15 minute Strategy Session with no strings attached. You can book a call here.
There’s more to it, should you need to learn more about link building, here’s my free Ebook on Structured Approach To Link Building that will put a full stop to all your doubts regarding building backlinks.
If you wish to discuss a project or your client SEO, I offer a free 15 minute Strategy Session with no strings attached. You can book a call here.
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