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My site is ranking # 1 locally and I want it too maintain its position. Though the competition is not tough but I was wondering if I could use some legitimate SEO method myself or pay for it just to make sure it doesn't lose the ranking.
Is backlink still the most important offsite factor? I haven't done anything for my site lately and don't have any updates about SEO these days.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    So what's your question?

    Yes, backlinks are important. In fact there's not much to "off site SEO" besides backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shanewatson11
    Yes, Backlinks is one of the important factor. bcz without back links you can not get website ranking and page rank, alexa rank etc.
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by Shanewatson11 View Post

      Yes, Backlinks is one of the important factor. bcz without back links you can not get website ranking and page rank, alexa rank etc.
      Alexa ranking has nothing to do with backlinks. It's a usage statistics for their browser plugin.
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    • Profile picture of the author stoqn
      Originally Posted by Shanewatson11 View Post

      Yes, Backlinks is one of the important factor. bcz without back links you can not get website ranking and page rank, alexa rank etc.
      Alexa don't count backlinks just traffic
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  • Profile picture of the author Yasin Rishad
    Backlink is very much important to rank on top of search engine. Also take your attention on seo. It will help you to stay longer on search engine
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  • Profile picture of the author SandraGenJobs
    You can do backlinking yourself or you can hire someone to take care of SEO instead of you.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikest4u
    Yes Back Links are quite important factor in order to increase domain and page authority.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnniewalk
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    For maintaining those rankings you need to do some off page seo continuously.
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  • Profile picture of the author jillz mith
    Originally Posted by opportunist86 View Post

    My site is ranking # 1 locally and I want it too maintain its position. Though the competition is not tough but I was wondering if I could use some legitimate SEO method myself or pay for it just to make sure it doesn't lose the ranking.
    Is backlink still the most important offsite factor? I haven't done anything for my site lately and don't have any updates about SEO these days.
    Create an official blog and post your blogs regularly and share them. when search engine crawls your website it will makes an positive feedback that your site is updating regularly. At least do some offpage seo like social bookmarking in some high PR popular sites to maintain your rank.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mehwish84
    i think due to quality contents and best keywords your site goes to #1 Rank,Now backlink is necessary part to maintain its ranking

    best of luck
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  • Profile picture of the author supracare
    Want to rank for local keywords? Most importantly optimize your Google place for business. Add keywords in your plus pages and fill the information correctly. Link your website. Encourage your customers to write reviews about your business.

    Your website will be in Google first page pack for most of the time.
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  • Profile picture of the author cookiesfromhome
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    Quality backlinks are most important part of seo.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikhailblaze
    First off, congratulations for getting the top spot

    Actually backlinks are the only off-page SEO factor, if you think about it clearly. Yes, you can do it yourself, but you'll need to do a bit of reading about the procedures first, just in case you're a newbie.

    Best of luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author DavidLee8888
    Try to make quality back-links it will help you to maintain your website ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author ankushkohli
    I think I got your question. Just create your listings on local directories, get some reviews, be active on your social accounts and that’s it. You’ll be able to maintain rankings in your local areas.
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  • Profile picture of the author BenePark
    There are some good press release providers on Fiverr. You can hire them to get some fresh backlinks and even get on Google News with your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author kopaldass
    Yes Back links are most important for any website ranking ..
    If You want to maintain ranking you need to Generate Back links through off page seo activities Submission with fresh Content ..
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  • Profile picture of the author VimalRai
    If you got top spot without creating backlink it means the keyword was not competitive other wise it would be a nightmare without backlink. Now all I suggest is use some legit methods to get backlinks like guest posting. use local sites. Google Plus page etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author medstock
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    Backlink is very important to rank on top of search engine,because without back links you can not get website ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author sameers
    I think you should keep focusing on maintaining traffic. You can use social media and quality link building, this will help you maintain reputation on search engines to stay on rank.
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  • Profile picture of the author shastaarenburg
    Yes, Backlink is much more important to build your website trust and keep rank on #1.
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  • Profile picture of the author smallseotoolz
    To maintain and retain your position in search results you need a strong social media and high-quality backlinks. The Main thing is to focus on your content quality.
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  • Profile picture of the author RyderSkerst1
    ya back link is very important in SEO
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  • Profile picture of the author kazimuhith
    Backlinking is extremely important. You can do on page seo yourself and outsource the off page seo by hiring someone who can add high pr backlinks.
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  • If you want to stay in top for your keywords in search engine results, you have to create back links. You can go with strategies like posting blogs, guest posts, press release and document sharing. The main thing in these back links is the content. You have to create a informative and quality content. It should be interesting and engaging to the users. Use social media to get traffic for the blogs or any other content you are going to use.
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  • Profile picture of the author HuiBang
    Yes, backlinks are still important factor for ranking. Here are the best strategies that help you to rank website on top on Google
    1. Create the best piece of content for your target keyword and use the blogging platform like Wordpress, BlogSpot to promote everywhere.
    2. Presence on Social Media to create awareness.
    3. Optimized website with unique and clean content.

    The most important thing to remember is that content should always be excellent and this should be the main driver to your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hudson White
      Backlinks are important but Google doesnt owe the same value to it as it was earlier. Moreover, there are some new updates from Google which one should take care like:
      - responsiveness of websites
      - mobilegeddon
      - meta tag optimization
      - Optimized internal links
      - Text Formatting (use of h1,h2,bold etc)
      - Image optimization (image size, proper image names, use of ALT tag)
      - Create User friendly 404 pages
      - add Google Authorship verification for all pages
      - Create top quality fresh content (This is always the most important SEO factor!)
      - Add External links (no broken links or links to 'bad' sites)
      - Decrease page loading time
      - Give H1 tag to page Title
      - Create robots.txt for website
      - Add data highlighter

      Hope this will help you.
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  • Profile picture of the author sameera
    Yes, backlinks are good for website but do not add your website on low authority websites. Generating backlinks for website does not mean to submit your website on on other websites. The right strategy to follow is to keep your all profiles engaging by sharing right information with the users that encourages them to share it further with their connections. This will not only increase your audience but also increase genuine backlinks for your website.
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