Link Building8 min read
How to Find Backlinks to Your Site + Tips for More Backlinks
Discover ways to uncover any site’s backlinks to spot link opportunities to grow your site’s authority.
Link Building
Link building is one of the most effective SEO strategies to boost your website’s performance. Check out these resources and learn how to build high-quality links from the best link-building experts.
Link Building5 min read
How to Disavow Backlinks (+ Find Out if You Really Should)
Learn how to disavow backlinks, when it‘s necessary, and how to create and submit a disavow file to Google.
Link Building4 min read
What Is Semrush’s Authority Score? Guide + Improvement Tips
Authority Score is a compound metric in Semrush that measures a domain‘s or webpage‘s overall quality.
Link Building5 min read
How to Use the Google Search Console Links Report
The Google Search Console links report shows how other sites link to yours & how your site links internally.
Link Building4 min read
Semrush Backlinks Update 2021: How We Built a New Backlinks Tool
About a year and a half ago we set a goal to build the largest, fastest-updating and highest quality backlink database. Now that we’ve hit our goal we can’t wait for you to test it out yourself!
Link Building6 min read
Welcome to the Fastest Backlink Discovery Tool Ever
It’s 2021, you need your digital marketing to move fast. To help you find, report and manage backlinks, Semrush is launching the fastest backlink analytics checker in the market.
Link Building17 min read
The Definitive Guide to Using Guest Blogging as a Link Building Strategy
In this step by step comprehensive guide, you will learn how to use guest blogging as a link building strategy, and how to do it the right way with step-by-step instructions.
Link Building6 min read
Are Nofollow Links Actually Good for SEO? Here Is Proof...
Nofollow links are detested by SEOs as much as an IRS employee is at tax time. It is simply unfair. But there is hope for the resurgence of the nofollow link. Read on and see what we discovered in our study about nofollow, anchor text, and rankings, and I promise you will look at nofollow links in a totally different light.
Link Building5 min read
How To Score .Gov Links for SEO
Receiving high quality backlinks from .gov sites can dramatically increase your website rankings, but actually getting those powerful backlinks is a monumental task. Although there remains some debate over the true value of .gov extensions with Matt Cutts stating, “Google doesn’t treat .gov or .edu domains any differently,” most SEO professionals feel otherwise.
Link Building5 min read
Link Building: What Are Co-citation and Co-occurrence?
When Google was launched back in 1998, “link popularity“ was the core factor used in evaluating a website‘s authority to give users better search results. However, when users started manipulating the system and using bad link building practices, Google was challenged to remove these websites as spam. Since then, Google has experimented and launched several updates like EMD, PMD, LSI, Penguin, and Panda with anti-spam algorithms. They even began ranking sites without backlink relevance, which Matt Cutts said caused much worse results.