Off Page SEO

You’ve probably seen the ads where a company will submit your website to thousands of search engines for only $19.95 (!!!). Some of them will even suggest you pay them on a monthly basis for this service.

Let me be perfectly clear: you don’t need to submit your site to search engines. If you do SEO the right way, the search engines will come to you.

One of the most important factors for getting your site ranked for competitive keyword phrases doesn’t even happen on your own website. But you’re still responsible for making it happen.

If you want to rank well for a lot of keywords, you need links from other websites.

Or, more specifically, you need quality links from trusted domains.

The search engines see links as external citations vouching for the content of your website. The more citations you have, the more important you must be – especially if those citations come from websites that are also considered “trusted.”

This section will cover the following topics:

• What is a Quality Link?
• What is a Trusted Domain?
• Links to Avoid (Or at Least Think Twice About)
• Where to Get Links

Let’s get started and find out what is a quality link…

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