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4 Types of Inbound Links And Which Are The Best Ones To Get
Posted by Ryan Kelly on July 06, 2010. Categories: Quick SEO Tips, Search Engine Optimization Tags: contextual links, footer links, inbound links, reciprocal links, sidebar links
There are several types of inbound links a website can get, each with a different value associated with them. Here we will explore a few of them:
Contextual
A contextual inbound link is usually a one-way link that appears to be the most natural, and therefore has the most value. This is a link pointing to you within the body text of another website, and links to you with descriptive text. This could be a blog post, news article or other.
Sidebar
A sidebar link is one that appears in the sidebar of a page, and is usually replicated through many or every page of the site. Every modern blog has a sidebar, and is usually filled with links and resources to other sites. Some of these can provide value such as a descriptive text link, versus an image.
Footer
A footer link is one that appears in every page way down at the bottom of the page. It usually contains credits to the companies that design, build and host a website. These are considered to be lower in value than a contextual or sidebar link.
Reciprocal
Reciprocal links are websites that exchange links with each other, usually on a “Links” page or similar. These have been heavily devalued over the years, as search engines started to see a trend of massive link building with sites that were not at all related. Some reciprocal links are good if they come from authoritative sources, the content is related, and are not the majority type of links pointing to the site.
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@sharma2ridhi http://www.junowebdesign.com/
The higher number of inbound links to a site, and the college the superior of those links, the more admired agreeable that website have to contain, the engines think. They see incoming links as 'votes' for a website. Really I appreciative to you give very wonderful article. dmoz listing
Getting inboud links is crucial. We all know that. But one thing, which is more important than these inbound links, is directories. DMOZ or Yahoo or whatever... I personally do not like that directory stuff and find them out of date. There are lots of old-out of date- obsolete websites in those directories and most of those are given priority in search engine ranks. They seems to be created in the medieval time of the Web but still have higher value. For me, directories are more important than inbound links. This does not mean that inbound links are not important.
Does anyone have some suggestions on the best ways to get inbound links?
Exact information I was looking for! I could not figure out what reciprocal links were.
Try all or one of the examples above and see the results for yourself. I did it for one particular key word and within 48 hours saw a jump in the right directoion. The chosen keyword had not moved for a few months and after following examples above it proved itself.
that's awesome, Sean!