Aid me in my understanding of links

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Okay, SEO noob here. For those of you who will be annoyed by a possibly "dumb" question, click back now. Or stick around and post an insulting comment if it makes you feel better about yourself Im fine with that too lol.

Now I get that bots/spiders crawl sites, scanning info and links. Alot of inbound links are a good sign making it seem like the site is informative and relevant. I get that. You WANT links to your site, I get the concept.

What I want is for someone to show me examples, im not retarded I know what a "Link" is, but would someone like to teach me what these links you want, and are looking for, what the crawlers are looking for are exactly?

Again, forgive my ignorance. Thanks!
 


a link back to your site can take many forms. All have merit on different levels.

EG. blog comment links : let say your niche is puppy training - so you google "puppy training blogs" and you get a list of results. You click through to the first couple of results - read teh articles, and see that some of them allow you to leave a comment. There are usually 4 fields you can fill in - name, email, website and comment. Usually, whatever you put in the Name field will be hyperlinked to the address you put in the Website field - so lets say you put "the dog whisperer" in the name field. and your website url in the website field, then the anchor text of teh backlink you create once the comment is approved will be "the dog whisperer" - in effect you would have created a backlink to your site.

Similarly you can leave links on forums (in your signature, or your bio).

You can also create backlinks to your main site by posting articles to article directories, or web 2.0 properties etc etc - make sure you vary the anchor text or you'll get penalised by G for "unnatural linking"

does that answer your question somewhat?
 
turoc said:
a link back to your site can take many forms. All have merit on different levels.

EG. blog comment links : let say your niche is puppy training - so you google "puppy training blogs" and you get a list of results. You click through to the first couple of results - read teh articles, and see that some of them allow you to leave a comment. There are usually 4 fields you can fill in - name, email, website and comment. Usually, whatever you put in the Name field will be hyperlinked to the address you put in the Website field - so lets say you put "the dog whisperer" in the name field. and your website url in the website field, then the anchor text of teh backlink you create once the comment is approved will be "the dog whisperer" - in effect you would have created a backlink to your site.

Similarly you can leave links on forums (in your signature, or your bio).

You can also create backlinks to your main site by posting articles to article directories, or web 2.0 properties etc etc - make sure you vary the anchor text or you'll get penalised by G for "unnatural linking"

does that answer your question somewhat?
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Yes! Examples like this are exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you. Does simply leaving the link do the job? Or is it only effective when someone uses the link to access your site/blog/etc?
 
keep in mind that different links can be valued more, this has to do with the quality of the site that is linking to yours. Check out ahrefs.com and keep an eye on your links early, I made the mistake of not doing this.
 
actionman said:
Under type, what does it mean when it says text of nofollow?
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Google doesn't track outgoing links on this website, so any links here don't contribute to your websites credibility HOWEVER as I understand it they do help make your back link profile look more natural to google.
 
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