Backlink

Backlinks refer to links that are directly pointing back to your website. Having more backlinks indicate the popularity and the importance of your website to the visitors. Since backlinks have been fully abused by many unethical SEO marketers back then, it is no surprise that Google is putting less emphasis on link building anymore. A backlink for a given web resource is a link from some other website (the referrer) to that web resource (the referent). A web resource may be (for example) a website, web page, or web directory. A backlink is a reference comparable to a citation. The quantity and sources of backlinks for a web page are among the factors that Google's PageRank algorithm evaluates in order to estimate how important the page is. The PageRank score is, in…
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Backlink Anchor

A backlink is a link from another website. The backlink anchor text is the anchor text used by other websites linking to your website. The anchor text of these backlinks help search engines determine the most relevant keywords a web page should rank for. Backlink anchor optimization is important for SEO but delicate. Indeed backlink are more often created independantly by third parties without the website owner being aware of it. Some practices allow to control backlink anchors redaction, but those practises are often black hat SEO. Since its algorithm update in spring 2012, called Penguin, Google seems to search to penalize or to reduce the recognition of over-optimized backlink anchors. Thus, the presence of a great number of identical anchors for the same website or page can now carry…
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Backlink Cleaning

Backlinks cleaning is a process which appeared with the fears associated with Google Penguin launch which aimed at penalysing websites with too many inorganic backlinks. Backlink cleaning is a complex process. The first step is to track backlinks and to identify bad or inorganic links. It can be made with devoted SEO tools or Google Webmaster Tools which may sometimes send inorganic backlinks alert. The second and most difficult task is to obtain bad links removing. Webmaster have usually no time for the operation. In a paradoxal situation, we may meet webmasters asking for removing backlinks they have asked or paid for. Because it is often difficult to obtain suppression of inorganic links and because some of them might have been created by malicious competitors, Google has launched in October…
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Backlink Stick Rate

Backlink stick rate is a metric showing what percentage of new backlinks (for instance comment spams) are still in place a few day after being placed.Building your links slowly has much better long term results than rushing through the process. Backlink stick rate is a metric used essentially for black hat SEO practices where hundreds or thousands of backlinks can be artificially created by dedicated softwares. Some spammy backlinks may be deleted a few hours or days later due to moderation "a posteriori". Because Wikipedia is a community moderated  website, it's important to become a helpful member of the Wikipedia community before attempting to add your own links to pages. Blending in to the community makes it much less likely that your website links will  be removed because one of…
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