How search engines see back links and what they do about them

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Before putting any effort whatsoever into creating any web pages you should have considered how you intend to get people to visit and ‘consume’ your content. Whether your website is commercial or not then sooner or later you are going to want to attract visitors. You should devote your energies to getting the search engines to direct as many visitors as possible to your web pages. The search engines generate targeted traffic and the great news is its costs you nothing.

Search engines make their living from delivering relevant and useful results to their users. The number one goal of every search engine is to attract users and increase loyalty and this can only be done by delivering what the searchers are looking for in a relevant and timely fashion. The more often the searchers return the greater the search engines fortunes. The objectives for you and your web pages is precisely the same as the search engines.Position yourself in the mind of your users as a relevant source of information and make them visit over and over again.

So how do you go about doing this?. There are two key ways you can do this. You can work hard to produce very good content and publish it on your web pages or you can advertise using methods such as Pay Per Click or Google Adwords.

Search engines have a simple philosophy that nothing exists on the web without a keyword or a key phrase . Keywords tell the search engines what the user is looking for. The search engine refers to a gigantic index to retrieve a list of the web pages it deems to be the most relevant to the keywords the user entered. Search engines use relevance and authority to decide what pages get returned and presented to the searcher.

Relevance is determined by the occurrence of keywords in the web page content and authority is largely derived from back links from other web pages. The order of the list of results displayed by a search engine are conducive with the authority and volume of the back links to each page.

Back links are the most important factor in optimising your pages for the search engines.

Back links have two major functions – routing traffic to your web pages and helping the search engines determine the ranking of your web pages in the results returned by a user search. Browsers who discover and click on back links containing keywords associated with their interests will be directed to your web pages. ‘Anchor text’ is the correct term to describe the text appearing as a link and contributes to the value given to the link by the search engines. Back links can vary in value.

The authority on the page from which a back links originates can influence the potency of the link to your web page.The higher the authority of the linking pages, the higher is the authority passed to your pages.

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