With this post, you will learn what is OFF page SEO and how to build high quality backlinks for your website, which will help you gain top rankings for targeted keywords on Google.

SEO is basically categorised into two ways.

  1. On-page SEO
  2. Off-page SEO

On-page SEO makes your website search engine friendly but off-page SEO improves your website’s position in Search Engine Results Page (SERP).

Links are the new web currency. But, most of the people assume that off page is all about just link building. No, it is not just about links. Then what else it includes? It is a combination of a lot of factors that include:

  • Social media metrics (Facebook likes, Pinterest pins, Tweets etc)
  • User engagement (comments)
  • Social bookmarking
  • Forum posting and a lot of other factors.

If you want to boost your search rankings in 2021, this ultimate guide is just for you.

Important factors that Google considers while ranking:

  • The number of linking domains. The number of domains linking to your site is one of the most important ranking factors
  • Domain Authority (DA) of a linking page. The links from the high DA website is considered more helpful than the links from low DA sites. Yes, try to get links from high DA websites.
  • The number of linking page. It is always recommended to have more links from individual domains rather than from a single domain.
  • Authority of linking domain. A link from low Page Authority (PA) page on a high DA site is better than from a low DA one.
  • Count number of dofollow links. As Google officially stated that it won’t count nofollow links while ranking, it considers dofollow links.
  • Contextual links. The links within the content of the page are worth more than the links in a sidebar.
  • Links from homepage. The links from a homepage of a linking domain carry more strength than those on one of its pages.
  • Link relevancy. The links from  pages related to your pages topic carry more relevancy for search engines.

Google views your website as more valuable than others if you have many backlinks from authoritative websites. Google analyzes the questions about links like, where does the link comes from?, quality of the link, how fresh the link is? Etc..

How to get those authoritative links?

1. Guest blogging: No doubt, guest blogging takes you so far and helps a lot in acquiring great links  The only challenging task here is, you need to do lot of research about the topic. After that, you need to find out the top blogs in your niche and submit your pitch. If they accept and yes your article gets published.

2. Broken link building: To earn the links, this method is pretty much faster than guest blogging. Do you know, lots of links on some authority blogs are actually dead. Why it happens? If hosting expires, during file transfer or migration of the sites, links are bound to break.

The one good point is broken pages don’t affect your site’s ranking. But it does give bad experience to user. If  your customer service is bad, then 85% of your business could be lost according to the Sacramento Design Network.

So, conduct a backlink analysis on your niche websites. Find broken links, contact the owner and let them know about their dead links. There are chances that they will do a return favour by including your link on their website or you can offer replacement link too.

3. Create compelling infographics: It always gives impressive results provided they are created with great information. If you have budget to afford, you can use Canva or Visual.ly for professional infographic designers.

If you want to attract huge number of audience and acquire authoritative back links, then infographics works the best. Because, the ideal customers respond to visual content better than the plain text.

Infographics goes viral if you give sufficient promotion to it. When people share your infographics, it continuously generates organic traffic to your blog. Well, you generated backlinks. What’s next?

Improve your social media signals

Social is the NEW SEO. If you want to improve your site’s overall off site SEO, make sure to improve your social shares. Here’s the image that tells you how social media impacts your SEO.

Know your target audience by engaging more on social media. By contributing regularly to discussions, you will understand where your audience hang out more and at what time

Here are some interesting stats that gives how much people are using social media for searching any query.

In a study conducted by comScore, Twitter handle 19 billion search queries a month as of 2010, Google around 88 billion search queries a month and bing 4.1 billion search queries per month. In 2012, Facebook mentioned that it’s getting 1 billion search queries per day.

Social media presence helps to grow your business and gets you more backlinks.The web is for building relationships, expressing and sharing ideas, helping each other with useful and helpful information.

Start making YouTube videos

You might ask, how YouTube can improve your blog’s off site SEO? That’s a great question. Let me be clear about it: firstly, YouTube is the 2nd biggest search engine after Google. Secondly, links that you get from YouTube videos (meta description) are valuable and they help you improve your blog SEO.

YouTube is so trending these days. You might have heard many people earning handsome amount of money from their YouTube videos. And of course, it’s not that much easy but with constant effort it is definitely possible. All you need is creativity to attract audience, patience and perseverance.

Here are the few tips that will be helpful to you in this process;

  • You should know what’s popular in your field right now to get an idea.
  • Have your own way to showcase your skills. It should represent your personality.
  • Don’t think of driving traffic or making money right from the first day. Instead show your passion in making new and creative content every day or once in every week.
  • Your videos show tell audience how you are different from others.
  • Quality matters always. Higher the quality, higher will be the view count.
  • Before promoting your channel, make sure you have at least 10 to 15 good quality videos and gained good number of subscribers.
  • Make sure your subscribers know when they can expect next video. For example, “once in a week” or “once in 10 days” or “alternative days”.
  • Keep a compelling video thumbnail.

It takes minimum 1 to 2 years to gain recognition. So, be patient. Remember, YouTube is a community. If you want to get other’s attention, you must give attention to other channels.

Find blogs that do weekly roundup posts

Here’s the quick tip to improve your overall off site SEO: find and land on weekly round up posts.

To be successful in blogging world, you need to build relationship with others. If you build relationships with fellow bloggers, it will help you to promote your blog and get traffic. You can do this by participating in blog link roundups. Link roundups is the best way to get other bloggers’ attention to discover your content.

To find link roundups in your niche, then simply type “weekly link roundup + your niche keyword” or “mashups + your niche keyword”.

roundup posts seo

Make sure you follow these points while promoting your content through roundups:

  • Write killer content that compels readers to read your article.
  • Build relationships with other bloggers. The one success mantra in online business.
  • Inform our fellow bloggers only to your best posts.

So find link opportunities and participate in them is the fastest way to build backlinks and to boost your overall SEO in 2021 and beyond.

Create infographics and use appealing images

Did you know that a got a couple of links from the top blog like Neil Patel from one image? So when you’re using appealing and unique images, you are tend to attract quality links from other sites that will definitely improve your overall off site SEO.

The trend has changed. People are vexed up with text oriented content. Some people tries to stuff content with keyword and build spammy backlinks. So, it is important to produce quality content to get recognized by Google’s SEO.

And the easiest way is to create infographics.

These are the mostly liked and shared content and beware there are bad infographics too. You can make your design attractive with good color combinations, charts, icons and graphs along with the most important data.

With tools like Canva, you can create infographics very easily and can also measure how well your infographic is performing.

Focus on your keywords

The #1 factor that controls SEO is the keywords you choose. If you want to do great content campaign, keywords are the essential building blocks for it. The below diagram depicts the more accurate view of on page SEO.

The primary keywords accounts for 40% of on-page SEO where as related keywords accounts for 17.5% of it. If you want to improve the organic traffic to your site, keyword research is very important.  Pick up the keywords related to your niche. While creating content, use those keywords around it.

For example, you want to write on “healthy nutritious food diet”. Enter this main keyword in Google keyword planner search bar and click on “Get ideas”. Here are the phrases related to your topic.

You can tailor your content by knowing the phrases and search terms that your users use while searching.

If you truly want to improve the search performance for a given keyword, use your primary keywords in title tag, use LSI keywords in your content. Never ever mention your primary keyword again and again in your content. Google sees that as over-optimization and penalizes you.

Save your site from Google penalties

If you want to sustain your site’s ranking position, backlinks are really important. But links affect the search performance either in better way or makes worse.

Backlinks have the strongest impact on search engines. It is very important to save your site from Google penalties because recovering from penalties is very difficult. Google mainly focusses on user optimization and valuable content.

How to stay away from Google penalty radar?

Perform full backlink analysis and it helps to analyze which links are good and which are bad. Here is how you can ensure that your site is free from getting penalized.

1. Perform site audit: You can use tools like SEMrush  for finding and fixing website SEO related issues. You can find out all the reasons why your site is not ranking well on Google. That being said, I’ve written an in-depth tutorial on how to conduct an SEO audit using SEMrush.

2. Optimize your content: Content is the king always. You may not use right keywords but if it looks too promotional then nothing can stop it from going viral. Help your audience by creating useful and helpful content. Use visuals in your post, integrate data into your blog posts. Your audience tries to know more about you if you really give them valuable content.

3. Use different keyword phrases: Once you are done with full backlink analysis and understands from where links are coming, focus on using different keyword phrases, generic content and brand names  in your content so that Google considers your links as natural. Which means your links shouldn’t have exact match keywords in their anchor texts.

One tip is use your brand name as anchor text because anyone can share your content and link to it. You can’t control your anchor texts so use your brand name. Make sure you always publish fresh content to enhance your brand in the online world.

Contribute to other sites

Guest blogging is the most effective way to generate quality dofollow backlinks. It’s the surest way to improve your off site SEO without getting any negative rankings.

What you get by contributing to other sites?

  • It helps to build your authority.
  • It can bring you lot of referral traffic.
  • It helps in building links.

While writing guest posts for other sites, don’t link too much to your site. It spoils your relationship with the site owner. Even if you are writing guest post for others, give really awesome content. Low quality guest posting brings extra trouble to you.

Here are the few things you need to keep in mind before you guest post on other sites:

  • Collect list of all sites related to your niche that accepts guest posts.
  • Set up an excel sheet and write each site’s home page domain authority (DA), guest posting guidelines etc.
  • To get more guest posting opportunities related to your niche, type in google with these search strings. “Your seed Keyword” + “guest post” or “intitle: guest post guidelines”.
  • Search on all social media platforms. For example, head over to Twitter page and in search box, you can give “your keyword” + “guest post”. Seriously, it shows you more opportunities than Google search engine.
  • So, you have list of all sites that accepts guest posts. Now, it’s time to know which of these sites bring you more traffic. Go to similarweb.com, and enter the domain of that site where you want to write guest post. This site gives you general idea about site’s popularity.
  • To check more about your guest posting site, observe their blog comments on posts. It gives you information whether site is active or not, up-to-date with current information.
  • Go to blog social analyzer, and submit the RSS feed of the site you want to guest post. This is to know the number of social shares that site’s recent posts have. If they have more tweets or shares, there are good chances that your post also will have.
  • Now, it’s time to write an amazing guest post. If you have a topic in your mind, linktally.com will tell you how well the post is going to perform.
  • Another way to determine topic for your guest post is to check which pages has more backlinks. For this, go to link explorer, and enter the site’s URL. Click on “Top pages” tab and check what pages have high Page Authority (PA).

Topic with case studies, detailed how to guides, long lists have more acceptance rate.  What are you looking for? Start writing amazing killer content and promote your stuff.

Submit to directories and forums

Off page SEO activities helps to make your website more popular on the Internet. To get more visibility, submit your stuff to directories and forums. Here are the sites where you can submit your blog content to enhance more visibility.

  • Social bookmarking sites: These are the best platforms to promote your stuff. When you post on popular social bookmarking sites, it helps in gaining more traffic to your blog. Some of the sites are: stumbleupon, slashdot, digg, technorati.
  • Submit to forums: Make sure that you participate in each forum related to your niche and build connections with community. Make the best use of do-follow forums. Some of the forum sites where you can submit are: blokube, Blog Engage, Indiblogger, bbpress, Warrior forum etc.
  • Blog directory submission: It helps to build quality backlinks. It takes time to get better results but it definitely helps in long run. Select a proper category under each directory and start submitting your posts. Networkedblogs, elecdir are good blog directories to submit posts.
  • Article submission sites: It is always good to submit the articles to high DA directories. If you submit low quality content and has more keyword stuffing, then your article gets rejected. So, create highly unique content.
  • Question and answer sites: You will get good amount of high traffic from question and answer websites.  Join those sites and search for questions related to your niche, give helpful answer to any question. Don’t forget to give your blog link at the end of the answer. You can use the sites like Yahoo answers, Quora, blurtit etc.
  • Share your videos to these sites: If you are a vblogger or any other, submit to these sites to make your videos popular. It is one of the ways to get quality backlinks. The sites which has high DA are: Youtube, vimeo, vine, ustream.
  • Image submission sites: Make sure you optimize your images with the correct URL, title tag before submitting to these sites. Flickr, Instagram, picasa, tumblr, imgur.
  • Submit your infographics: I already mentioned in #3 point how infographics helps in getting backlinks. Make really impressive infographics and submit to these sites. Give reference link to your website. Some of the infographic submission sites are: visual.ly, reddit, submitinfographics.com, infographicsarchive.com.
  • Share to document sites: Create documents related to your niche.Make sure you create unique and helpful pdf or ppt. Upload that in these sites: issuu.com, slideshare, scribd.com.

Techniques Used In SEO

Mainly three types of SEO technique is popular

  • White Hat SEO:- Optimization of the webpage by following search engine guidelines.
  • Black Hat SEO:- Optimization of the webpage by violating search engine guideline’s for ranking purpose only.
  • Grey Hat SEO:- Violation of search engine guidelines in moderation to increase the ranking speed of a website.

Now imagine that you are a blogger or having the business on the online medium, you requires a traffic. Obtaining primal traffic to your business. While replying absolutely on the on-page optimization techniques, but you may get suboptimal traffic which has lower conversion rates.

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