Off Page SEO

Off page SEO is what is done externally to maximise Search Engine ranking performance for target keywords. Off page SEO is something that needs to be done on an on-going basis and includes link building, social media activity, article marketing and blogging. Historically off page SEO consisted of building huge numbers of backlinks to your website. Due to algorithm updates link building is now reliant on the quality of the links rather than the quantity. It is also important that links are built in a natural way to ensure that you are not penalised by Google.

The link quality is concerned with the relevance of the website that the link is coming from and also its page rank and domain authority.

You should always ask yourself the following questions when you are looking for websites to link from:

• Is this site or page relevant to what I do?
• Is this site linking out to any low quality off topic sites?
• Is this site or page going to send the right sort of traffic?
• Is this site or page ranking well in the search engines?
• Does this site have a lot of links from other websites?

Another important factor is the way that the sites link to you, sites that use the nofollow tag to link to you or sites that use a redirect to link to you will not be of benefit. Also the search engines look at the text that links to you. If you can get a site to link to you using your targeted phrase (or similar) in the text or alt tag of the link then that is going to help you to rank higher for that particular phrase.

Off Page SEO Checklist

• Always start with keyword research, testing and selection
• Use a mix of Keywords and branded keywords in link anchor text
• Obtain links from high ranking publisher sites
• One-way inbound links (not link exchange or reciprocal links)
• Different keywords in your link-ads from the same site
• Gradual link building technology (no growth spikes)
• Use relevant keywords near your inbound link (contextual relevance)
• Deep linking (from multiple pages to multiple pages)
• Link from sites with a variety of LinkRanks
• Track all active keywords and refine strategy as required
• Discontinue campaigns if ranking does not improve

Avoid common off-page SEO mistakes

• Duplicate keywords in link avderts
• Site-wide links causing link growth spikes
• Using on-page SEOs to do the work of specialist off-page SEO’s
• Placing random links without keywords near your link adverts
• Do not use off-page SEO spamming tactics such as:
• Link farms (sites with 100+ outbound links per page)
• Using irrelevant keywords in your link-ads
• Garbage links
• Link churning
• Hidden inbound links

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