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Guest Posting For Backlinks

by hobokook
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Hi,

I know for guest posts, you're allowed a couple backlinks pointing back to your site, but what if I can't find a good anchor text to point back to my site and the only way I link back is to my home page.

Is that bad? Will backlinks to my homepage still help with rankings?

Thanks
#backlinks #guest #posting
  • Profile picture of the author Sharyn Sheldon
    You should be building a variety of links to different pages on your site, including the home page. It would actually look pretty strange not to have a lot of links to your home page. I was told to build 50% of my links to my homepage and the rest split among categories and individual pages for one of my sites.

    Not sure why you wouldn't have anchor text. You should always have a keyword focus for each page of your site. Just vary the wording when you build links. You can use your domain name also if it's a real problem.

    Hope that helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author braincandy7
    I agree. You must have a suitable anchor text and if not then you cannot be actively optimizing your pages for keyword rankings.

    Don't forget you don't have to anchor a whole sentence you can just anchor a keyword which allows more freedom in your comments or signatures.
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  • Profile picture of the author slickymedia
    Originally Posted by hobokook View Post

    Hi,

    I know for guest posts, you're allowed a couple backlinks pointing back to your site, but what if I can't find a good anchor text to point back to my site and the only way I link back is to my home page.

    Is that bad? Will backlinks to my homepage still help with rankings?

    Thanks
    Yes that can also help because any kind of link will be treated as a vote unless its done the unnatural way.
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    • Profile picture of the author 1st Degree Freebies
      Originally Posted by sswaqas View Post

      why don't you try directory submission it does not requir the login
      I was wondering the same thing. I have had a lot of luck with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author webworm
    Definitely back links to your homepage also helps you to better rank in the search engine.But it is good to provide back link to your pages with relevant keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Banks
    Guest posting on someone in your niche's blog if they are popular can direct their following over to you! SEO-wise PR is really what counts.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnsander1
    Every kind of ethical source to get backlinks is helpful for your business and you can promote your website easily you should always be hungry to get do-follow and ethical backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author WakondaMarketing
    It should be diverse. You should also have your backlinks pointing to other internal pages of your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author mosthost
    Be careful of this tactic. It's very similar to the types of linking schemes that have been devalued recently.

    From Google's perspective, multiple dofollow in-content blog links might look very much like Paid Links.
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  • Profile picture of the author simona86
    Hi,

    If you are writing a post on someone else's blog, then you are a guest blogger. A blog owner may allow guest bloggers to post on his website for a few reasons. One may be that he is too busy to post regularly himself. Or he invites guest bloggers to add variety to his blog. Sometimes he may be able to get an established blogger to be a guest blogger to get more traffic.
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