Second Tire Links and SERP
Getting high quality links is crucial if you want high rankings on Search Engines for competitive keywords. Links from old and reputable high authority sites work best. Unfortunately, it’s often not easy to get links from high authority websites.
You can benefit indirectly from high authority sites through second-tier links
Suppose you have found a great authority site that has something to do with the topic of your website. The authority site links to many other websites but for some reason, the webmaster doesn’t want to link to your site.
If the high authority website doesn’t want to link to your site, ask the websites to which it links if they want to link to your site. If you get a link from these sites, the high authority website will still have a positive influence on your own site.
This is what you should do:
- Find a high quality, high authority website (it should have lots of backlinks, old and established site and have good rankings on Search Engines).
- Contact the Webmaster of that site and ask him to link you. If you already link him from your site, showing that to the webmaster will make this process easier.
- Visit the websites to which the high authority website links and ask the webmasters of these sites if they want to link to your site.
Of course, these second-tier links are not as valuable as links from the top-notch site. However, they are still very valuable and chances are that they are more valuable than many other links that you can get on the Internet.
If you want to get high rankings on Search Engines, links from high quality websites are very important. The more links point to your website, the better. Optimize your web pages to tell Search Engines for which keywords you want to be found. Then get the right links to show Search Engines that your website is relevant to these keywords.
Interesting piece. Just wanted to ask how important you think backlinks are in the present internet climate. I recently launched a number of websites thare targeted at specific niche (albeit large niche) online markets.
Within a few weeks of launching my sites they all appeared in the first page of google search results for the keywords that I wanted them to. I did not have any backlinks on them at all and even now the only site that i currently have backlinks to is the one i’m working on.
Even without these backlinks, my websites posiitons have been high and steady for some months now.
My positions within google search results are 1,2,2,1,5 and 2. I guess my question is, do you think that the keywords within title, url and site description are more important to serp than amassing a shedload of often useless backlinks?