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SEO as the acronyms of search engine optimization is the term used in describing a strategy which webmaster uses to optimize their websites for search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and Bings. The important of blog SEO is more than bring quality traffic from search engine but also a means of creating credibility for a website on search engine.
What is off-page SEO?
Off page SEO is refer to as A strategy that is used by a webmaster to improve the appearance of their website or a blog on search engine page. So many sees off page SEO as the act of building links but it’s far more than that.
Generally, off page SEO is more than link building, it has to do with promoting blog, good website designing for the purpose of having a very good ranking on search engine page on a certain keywords.
Why off page SEO is important?
For decade now, search engines have been trying to give keyword searcher best result which will result from on-site SEO basis, website or blog quality, authority and the off page SEO of a site.
Off page SEO give search engine the insight on how the users see a particular site/blog. An authority website is prone to having more backlinks than a less authority website which is like references on social media like Facebook, Twitter, and Google plus when a status is being updated and some other benefit of authority website is that they are likely to be bookmarked and have their content shared on blogging communities by visitors.
Benefit of proper off page SEO.
The outcome of successful off-site SEO techniques will bring about the following benefits.
i. Increase in ranking: Such a site will be ranked higher in search engine (SERPs) which will bring about more traffic.
ii. High PageRank: PageRank is a number used by Google search engine to rate the authority and importance of a site, ranging from 0 to 10, despite the fact that PageRank is one out of tens of factors in which Google search engine uses in ranking a site.
iii. Exposure: The higher the rank of a site the higher the exposure is likely to be. It is generally known that when a website is rank higher on search engine, the tendency of getting more links, traffic is very high.
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Off page SEO is far different from on-page SEO, Off page SEO refer to the activities that don’t have to do with webpage, however, the most important area of off page SEO are:
Link Building
The most important aspect of off page SEO is link building. Building more external links to your site is like getting more like on a tweet or Facebook update so that you can overtake your competitor and rank higher. For instance, when a visitor click to share this article on his/her social page is like telling you friends on social media that there is an important information on this page and this will give this page an ego in the presence search engine.
There are diverse of ways in which webmaster uses to backlink this, some of which are; Blog directory, Forum, Comment, article directory and some uses link exchange medium.
Social Media
This is another part of off page SEO, and if it workability is proper understood, it is as a source of building links. All though most links from social media are nofollow links and that is not to say it’s of no value.
Social bookmarking:
This medium seems not to be popular like others and as it used to be in the time past but it is also a means of getting quality traffic to a website. There are numerous numbers of bookmarking site, depending on your website/blog niche. Some good number of social bookmarking sites are; delicious, scoop.it, stumbleUpon, digg etc.
Conclusion: Off page SEO is important as on-site SEO, to be success in SEO strategy, both off page and on-site SEO is of great important. Getting backlinks from an authority website or blog is not easy though but the more valuable a site or blog is the more important there links are.
Sep 14. 2013
Hello Adesanmi, I use to think off-page is just back link building. Thanks for the expansion. You beat my expectation.
Emmanuel Obarhua recently posted…
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Sep 15. 2013
Hi Emmy,
Thanks for your comment and understanding about this post buddy
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Sep 14. 2013
Hi Adesanmi,
Thanks for sharing this. Off page SEO is something really … hard to define. Some people call it social shares, others call it linking between blogs etc.
The value of social bookmarking has dropped pretty much but it still have some effect. Just need to make sure that you are in line with your strategy and work them out slowly.
Keep it up!
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Sep 15. 2013
Hi Reginald,
Thanks for your comment and am happy to have your comment on this blog. You are highly welcome to adetechbloh.
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Sep 15. 2013
Hi Adesanmi, Social media and social bookmarking are very helpful in getting instant traffic on your new blog post.
Muhammad Saleem recently posted…
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Sep 15. 2013
Hi Saleem,
Thanks for your contribution.
Sep 16. 2013
Hey Buddy , great write up …
I’ve seen and experience that off page SEO is must for all the newbie..
comes very difficult to rank in SERP when you’re just new in Blog-o-sphere..
Thanks for sharing , I’ll implement this..hope I get good result
Pritam recently posted…
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Sep 19. 2013
Hi Pritam,
You will definitely get great result if this continue to transpire on your blog buddy.
Sep 17. 2013
Hi Adesanmi,
Great post about Off Page SEO.
Generally it is heavily focused on link building which is truly a hard thing. Thanks to the Web 2, you can create profiles and plant links in them.
Blog commenting, forum posting and guest blogging probably are the most effect method to gain quality backlinks.
You’ve mentioned ‘link exchanges’ which is very controversial topic and Google too hates it if it knows.
Suresh Khanal recently posted…
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Sep 19. 2013
Hi Suresh,
Thanks for shipping in that about web 2 and I will as well try to check that out bro. I love blog comment and guest blogging is my hobby and it has been helping indeed.
Sep 17. 2013
Hi Adesamni,
The article is good and well structured with a good intro, the definition of the concept, the benefits and how to be done.
It is sad to know that social media links are nofollow. So the conclusion would be: social media is good just to bring traffic and not for link building. Or the people you engage with social media, link to your site and create natural backlinks: from their sites and not from inside the social network.
This information must be known on a larger scale because there are many people who believe that when you post a link to your site on Facebook (for example), it will help with your SEO.
Have a wonderful day
Silviu recently posted…
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Sep 18. 2013
Hi Silviu,
Social media links are NOFOLLOW but there are some benefits associated to NOFOLLOW links except traffic. Glad to have you buddy.
Sep 21. 2013
hmm ! i have listen about this now my concept is clear thanx mate..
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Sep 24. 2013
Hi Prince,
Glad to hear that buddy, thanks for your comment!