Link Building

Links on the Internet form a relationship between pages and sites that are hugely important to both search engines and marketers. Search engines, like Google, use links to crawl the web, discover new pages, calculate the popularity of those pages, and also determine the relevancy of results to a searcher's query.

If you are new to link building, we highly recommend starting out with our Beginner’s Guide to SEO with Growing Popularity and Links.

While link building can be hugely beneficial for SEO, it's important to stay up-to-date on the latest practices. Below you'll find the most recent posts from the Moz Blog. In addition, we've selected a few quality resources that deserve particular attention.

How to Use Digital PR to Improve E-E-A-T Signals
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How to Use Digital PR to Improve E-E-A-T Signals

In this post, Rebecca shares the digital PR tactics you can use to help to improve your E-E-A-T signals, explains why building trust and credibility needs to be at the top of your list if you want to have greater visibility in the search engine results, and ends with success stories that showcase how these tactics have led to commercial gains for brands in typically untrusted sectors.

5 Ways to Get More with Less Through Link Building — Whiteboard Friday
Whiteboard Friday Link Building

5 Ways to Get More with Less Through Link Building — Whiteboard Friday

As we enter 2023, several businesses are being squeezed because of rising costs. Customers are simultaneously struggling to cope with their living costs, which in turn affects companies and what products they can sell, and agencies and in-house teams come under more pressure to get more results, with limited budgets. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Paddy walks through a few tactics to get more from less when it comes to your link building efforts.

Study: Which Link Metric Correlates Closest to Organic Visibility?
Link Building Digital PR

Study: Which Link Metric Correlates Closest to Organic Visibility?

Since 2019, Google has acknowledged that it uses Natural Language Understanding (NLU) when understanding the relevancy and intent of users' search queries. So why is no one measuring relevance when it comes to link profiles? The team at Journey Further sought to do just that – and in their latest study, they demonstrate why link relevance is more important than ever.

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SEO Analytics Link Building Whiteboard Friday

Measuring Link Building

SEOs have powerful metrics at their disposal to measure the success of their strategies, such as Domain Authority (DA) and Page Authority (PA). But how best to use them? In today's Whiteboard Friday, Tom shows you how to think about these metrics as part of a holistic approach to your link building analysis.

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