What are Backlinks and Why are They Important?

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  • Опубліковано 30 жов 2024

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  • @garioldwin
    @garioldwin 3 роки тому

    I am a total beginner and this is the video I wanted to watch to understand what backlinks are. Thanks!

  • @stephbigue9751
    @stephbigue9751 Рік тому

    Fantastic breakdown. Crystal clear. Thank you for sharing.

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  Рік тому

      Glad you enjoyed it! 🙌
      -Helen

  • @arshadalamgeer9390
    @arshadalamgeer9390 4 роки тому +2

    Exceptionally well in detail tutorial for backlinks. Thanks, it refreshes my knowledge.

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  4 роки тому

      You are more than welcome! =)

  • @Practiceofthepractice
    @Practiceofthepractice 4 роки тому +3

    Such a great explainer video, thanks for sharing the knowledge!

  • @NigelGriffiths1
    @NigelGriffiths1 5 років тому +1

    Another day & another good vid from Ahrefs - made a note of this one as it is a great resource to send to clients that maybe don't quite get the whole backlinks thing! 😁

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому

      Thanks, Nigel. That's one of the main reasons why we created this video :)
      -Sam

    • @giobelkoicenter
      @giobelkoicenter 5 років тому

      agreed on this

  • @piperski_blavor
    @piperski_blavor 5 років тому

    Loud and clear! Very nice.

  • @Bharat_s
    @Bharat_s 5 років тому +1

    Is it possible for a tech blogger to sustain in SEO. Since you the article you post today will not be searched by anyone in few days. E.g smartphone review. Also the high authoritative websites are dominating in every keywords.

  •  5 років тому +1

    Wow! Very detail information! Thanks a lot!!!

  • @pawanshete5547
    @pawanshete5547 4 роки тому +1

    Nice explain and good knowledge about all video editing ( ADYPU MBA) 😎

  • @t0adgr0w
    @t0adgr0w 3 роки тому

    Hey, thanks for detailed video. When I look at the top 5 pages on your free backlink checker I see that 3 of them are archives and no longer active links. What does this mean?

  • @GuitarKirby93
    @GuitarKirby93 5 років тому +1

    Hey there, great SEO video as always.
    I‘ve got a question: How does this apply to UA-cam only?
    In your video you talked about search engines but is it mostly relevant to google or UA-cam as well?
    If so, should i backlink individual videos or my whole channel link?
    Thanks

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому

      There are some keywords that have Suggested videos section on SERP when searching Google. But I doubt you will get more organic traffic to your video or channel if you build some backlinks. We covered some tips on how to get organic traffic for UA-cam videos from Google here - ua-cam.com/video/kAuM2nQb_P8/v-deo.html
      - Max

  • @jamesscott1711
    @jamesscott1711 5 років тому

    Beautifully explained Sam. 👍

  • @bui.ductrong
    @bui.ductrong 5 років тому

    awesome video, very simple about backlinks, thank you so much

  • @harpreetsinghsachdeva9606
    @harpreetsinghsachdeva9606 3 роки тому

    I want to check off-page and on-page indexed latest backlinks by Google . Even today or right now i made some backlinks . So how can i check all of them latest and previous ? Please guide me . Is that possible to check ?

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  3 роки тому

      Try signing up for Ahrefs Webmaster Tools: ahrefs.com/webmaster-tools
      - SQ

  • @baraamorfati7242
    @baraamorfati7242 5 років тому

    can you explain the advantages and disadvantages of hosting and vps? and how to choose vps and hosting can affect in SEO?

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому

      This is sort of "it depends" question. How big is your site? How many people visit your site at the same time? What is the platform used for the website? How big is your database and how complex are queries that your website runs...
      If you are a blog owner, shared hosting will be more than enough, while Magento website will require a good VPS.
      Answering your questions. Hosting is partially reliable for your website's pagespeed. Low pagespeed will lead to poor experience for your visitors, which will lead to higher bounce rate and decreased dwell time. Additionally pagespeed is one of the ranking factors, so having a slow website will probably lead to poor rankings.

  • @dual7779
    @dual7779 4 роки тому

    Great presentation. No bullshit, straight to the point. Just one question. How can some relatively small websites manage to get hundreds of thousands of backlinks? It would be impossible to build them manually. Do they buy them or what? Also, I see a tendency in websites that have thousands of backlinks that for every backlink, they get 1 visitor. So if a site has 500k backlinks, their monthly organic traffic is also somewhere in that area. Might be more than 500k, might be less. Does it mean they use really crap backlinks if every backlink generates only 1 visitor per month?

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  4 роки тому

      Each backlink is different and I am sure there is no correlation between number of backlinks and number of monthly organic visits. You might get some referring traffic if a linking page actually gets some traffic. In my experience, there is not much new websites out there with a relatively strong backlink profile. Of course, it depends on resources of the marketing team on how well they can perform in link building, but usually new websites will have a lack of links to their site. I can only think of some unique cases, where lots of public and social media shared some outstanding story on a fresh website, which leaded to numerous natural backlinks created by others to share that case with their audience.
      So, I guess in most cases everybody start small and depending on amount of time and efforts invested into this process, some backlink profiles will eventually improve and some will stay where they've started.
      I suggest watching our playlist on linkbuilding strategies here - ua-cam.com/play/PLvJ_dXFSpd2tjUTuAHpHidz5e2hAedP_m.html
      - Max

  • @darnellbates3076
    @darnellbates3076 3 роки тому

    What exactly does it mean to "link" to a page? Does it mean that they have to have your page link/content tagged on their website? For example if I repost this video onto facebook, does your page now have facebook as a backlink?

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  3 роки тому

      The easiest way to explain is to use Wikipedia. When you're reading an article on Wikipedia, you'll see that there are tons of "blue highlighted" links that'll bring you to other pages. Those are links 🙂
      - SQ

    • @darnellbates3076
      @darnellbates3076 3 роки тому

      @@AhrefsCom Thank you!!

  • @jocaziggg
    @jocaziggg 11 місяців тому

    What if i have links directed to a different pages on my website? Is my website in general going to gain visibility?

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  11 місяців тому

      It's hard to say without checking the website, but if you have only internal links and no external backlinks, it will be difficult.
      -Helen

  • @riadahmed1148
    @riadahmed1148 5 років тому +1

    Another wonderful video.
    Thank you Sam.❤

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому

      You're welcome, Riad!

  • @sanjayhota4051
    @sanjayhota4051 5 років тому +1

    Multi niches websites is search engine friendly or not??? By the way thanks a lot Sam, for awesome video on backlinks.

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому +1

      I would use separate site for separate niche. Or at least break it down into subdomains.
      - Max

    • @rafiusoliu9000
      @rafiusoliu9000 2 роки тому

      @@AhrefsCom
      Can you give a brief explanations on what you meant by "sub domains"? Thanks in advance.

  • @skyelee6676
    @skyelee6676 5 років тому +1

    Thanks for sharing this video! Very informative. Though I've a question, when you quoted Google patent on the backlink quality, does it means Google's algorithm only care about PageRank (which is defined as URL rating for Ahrefs), instead of Domain rating?

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому

      There are hundreds of factors that go into ranking a page, so I'd say no. Also, I do want to clarify that "URL Rating" isn't an exact replacement for PageRank.
      While we calculate URL Rating (UR) in a similar way to the original version of Google PageRank, it’s not the same. Nobody outside of Google knows how the PageRank formula has developed over the years. But we do know that URL Rating (UR) is comparable to the original Google PageRank formula in the following ways:
      - We count links between pages;
      - We respect the “nofollow” attribute;
      - We have a “damping factor”;
      - We crawl the web far and wide (which is a critical component when calculating an accurate link-based metric)
      -Sam

    • @skyelee6676
      @skyelee6676 5 років тому

      @@AhrefsCom Thanks for your prompt reply! How do we make use of Domain Rating in Ahrefs tool? Which is more important to look at? Domain Rating (DR) or URL Rating (UR)?

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому +1

      The purpose of DR is very straightforward - to assess the “relative link popularity” of a given website. For that reason, it is a super-useful metric to look at when link prospecting, as links from sites with high “link popularity” are typically more valuable than those from sites with a low “link popularity.” “Link popularity” (Domain Rating) is also a useful metric by which to estimate a website’s ability to get search traffic from Google.
      So page with low UR from a high DR domain will still have smaller chances to outrank high UR page from low DR domain. It is known that Google ranks pages, not domains. While DR score tells you that pages on this domain a likely to have a high UR score.
      Hope that helps.
      - Max

    • @skyelee6676
      @skyelee6676 5 років тому

      @@AhrefsCom yes, thanks for the helpful explanation!

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому

      You are welcome =)

  • @dharyamalhotra2701
    @dharyamalhotra2701 5 років тому +1

    Hey Sam I wanna know something,
    I have been blogging for about 1 year and I have found that some of the websites in my niche is ranking for more keywords that are missing from their blog and Google shows them as "missing terms" in the SERP.
    I want to know is there a way of achieving this or it's just by luck.
    Looking forward to hear from you via reply or it will be best if you make a video on the same topic :)

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому

      That happens when search engine is not sure what is a search intent, what is the thing that you look for. So search engine will "guess" to meet your intent, highlighting keywords that are not present on a page. I doubt there is anyway you can optimize your pages for that. Maybe these "suggestions" are based on tfidf, you will never know the truth =(
      - Max

    • @dharyamalhotra2701
      @dharyamalhotra2701 5 років тому +1

      @@AhrefsCom Thanks👍

  • @haroonkhan5933
    @haroonkhan5933 4 роки тому

    If I have a private business. Which websites would link to me?

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  4 роки тому

      Website, which consider your content to be valuable so that these sites decide to share links to your site with their audience.
      - Max

  • @joycerojas
    @joycerojas 4 роки тому

    Very informative. thank you! What's the best way to get organic real links? Writing articles? I'm a money mindset coach and am wondering what the best way would be for people to find my youtube channel to help them out during this recession.

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  4 роки тому +1

      You can blog about things that you cover with your videos. Additionally you will embed UA-cam videos in each blog post and drive more views to your channel with your site. We do the same here at Ahrefs, where lots of our videos are covered with blog posts too.
      - Max

    • @joycerojas
      @joycerojas 4 роки тому

      Ahrefs Thank you! Is the best way to blog on your own website or write articles on another platform?

  • @anuchinthoju7534
    @anuchinthoju7534 3 роки тому

    In a website we will see backlinks or not ? Please answer me

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  3 роки тому

      Not exactly sure what you mean here. But if you want to see all the backlinks pointing at a website, you'll probably need to use a backlink tool like Ahrefs.
      - SQ

  • @MiguelMartinezFondon
    @MiguelMartinezFondon 5 років тому

    thanks for your advice...

  • @HealingMelodies
    @HealingMelodies 5 років тому

    Ah ha! So that's what those external sites I see in analytics are! Thank you for these research tips and ideas for actions to take!

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому +1

      You are more than welcome ;)
      - Max

  • @bensonmunene3987
    @bensonmunene3987 5 років тому

    Please recommend a company that builds/sells backlinks

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому

      Buying/selling backlinks is considered as black hat SEO, where you can be penalized or deindexed in full. We do not support this and recommend to stay away from purchasing/selling links.
      - Max

  • @combatjones4832
    @combatjones4832 4 роки тому

    TONS OF VALUE

  • @tntproductions1221
    @tntproductions1221 5 років тому +1

    Best backlinks software please?

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому +2

      Ahrefs 😂

    • @tntproductions1221
      @tntproductions1221 5 років тому +2

      @@AhrefsCom ahrefs is a SEO tools but ahrefs doesnt do backlinks . Im talking about software like GSA for example. Do you have something to recommend or only manual backlinks posting? Thanks for your feedback.

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому +3

      I recommend to stay away from that sort of services if you care about your site. This is considered as link schema, where you can be easily penalized or removed from index. I would not take such a risk, and remember that the only free cheese is in the mousetrap.
      - Max

  • @StefTechSurfer
    @StefTechSurfer 4 роки тому

    What if you get a backlink to a site you own and your link to another site you own?

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  4 роки тому

      Might be considered as link scheme
      - Max

  • @ubaidurrahman7906
    @ubaidurrahman7906 5 років тому

    Thank you Sam 😍😍😍

  • @idreesshafiq4671
    @idreesshafiq4671 5 років тому

    Ohh Great Stuff: But can you guide me how to follow our competitor backlinks and how to drive this strategy ?

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому +1

      You can analyze your competitors with Ahrefs Site Explorer and review sites they get links from. There are lots of opportunities where you can get a backlink too. As for linkbuilding in general, I recommend to spend some time watching our YoutTube playlist that covers a lot of different tactics on how to get backlinks - ua-cam.com/video/3sF-m5LKCf4/v-deo.html
      - Max

  • @OhhSquad
    @OhhSquad 4 роки тому

    So backlinks are the key to a good SEO right ?

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  4 роки тому

      According to our studies it is a pretty important ranking factor.
      - Max

    • @OhhSquad
      @OhhSquad 4 роки тому +1

      Ahrefs thank you Max 🙏🏾

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  4 роки тому

      You are welcome ;)

  • @ahmadsattar9154
    @ahmadsattar9154 5 років тому +2

    Your Forget to say: "Stay Tuned", :D

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому +3

      It was intentional :) Different type of video than our regular tutorials, so thought I'd leave it out.
      -Sam

  • @GadgetControlTV
    @GadgetControlTV 5 років тому

    can you make a video on how to add above the fold content in WordPress using a plugin or other options no one has talked about it yet pleaseeeeeeeee.

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому

      Not sure I understand your request. If you look for a plugin that will generate amazing content for your site, I guess it is not yet developed🤷‍♂️
      - Max

  • @kennywawesh9073
    @kennywawesh9073 Рік тому

    What's a DR ?

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  Рік тому

      It stands for Domain Rating. Learn more about it here: ahrefs.com/blog/domain-rating/
      -Helen

  • @nileshvaghela5665
    @nileshvaghela5665 5 років тому

    missing lines after 3min 45sec, "Sometimes Ahref explores more backlinks than webmaster". 👍

  • @subrajitkundu1175
    @subrajitkundu1175 5 років тому

    Is Comment BackLinks are Penalty for My Website??

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому

      I don't see much value in links from comments for the purpose of SEO.
      -Sam

    • @subrajitkundu1175
      @subrajitkundu1175 5 років тому

      @@AhrefsCom Is Guest Post Worth For It Now A Day ?

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому

      Yes

  • @thirumaranrag
    @thirumaranrag 3 роки тому

    Ok

  • @davenilsson5443
    @davenilsson5443 5 років тому

    Sam!

  • @waseemsaifi5580
    @waseemsaifi5580 5 років тому

    Hey max

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому

      Hey! How is it going, my friend =)
      Did you like this video? Or you were familiar with this info?
      - Max

  • @120201atta
    @120201atta 4 роки тому

    I only speak English. I heard English but understood nothing 🤣

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  4 роки тому +1

      You can play it a slower speed if it helps.
      - SQ

    • @120201atta
      @120201atta 4 роки тому +1

      @@AhrefsCom No, the video is helpful as it is thanks. It's the gap in my knowledge and understanding that needs to be filled and developed. I know nothing at all about this kind of stuff

  • @manukiranp
    @manukiranp 5 років тому

    Please don't create crappy videos like this create something valuable you have already did lots of videos about backlinks, create something New like New backlinking strategy

    • @AhrefsCom
      @AhrefsCom  5 років тому

      Why is it "crappy?" :) Have you watched our link building playlist? ua-cam.com/video/3sF-m5LKCf4/v-deo.html
      There should be more than enough resources there for you to build plenty of links :)
      -Sam