Why Do I Need Natural Links?

November 7th, 2009 by Dhruv Patel

When a website is intended to be profit generating entity, it will become effective only when enough visitors are seeing it. The best way to get lots of visitors is to be displayed at or very near the top of search engine results for the subject matter of your site. There are several strategies that can improve a site’s ranking in search results. This article will focus on natural links. Natural links are sometimes called organic links or algorithmic links. Natural links to your website from other sites tell search engines that your site has a following among other sites. A substantial following is an indicator of desirable and compelling content.

Natural links are links that occur naturally. A purpose built linking site that consists primarily of links to other sites is an artificial link producer. Search engines have learned to detect such sites. A natural link is one that users or site administrators of other sites have decided points to desirable and compelling content. A visitor to another site will see the text describing your site’s content and the link. Search engines see these natural links as substantiation of your site’s content. True natural links are quite valuable to the ranking of your site and the related business growth.

The only natural way to build up a large number of links to your site is to provide popular and compelling content. People want to share the good things they find. When something on your site is good enough to be shared, web site owners and administrators will provide links to your content on their sites. These are natural links.

In an approach to improving search engine rankings, site owners whose content is not generating effective links “naturally” have been looking for ways to “create” natural links. It is something of an oxymoron to think of a created link as a natural link. This article presents a discussion of some common link-creating strategies.

Site owners are businesspeople above almost everything else. An investment in a professionally produced web site is expected to deliver a return. When content alone is not bringing visitors, they start looking for remedies. Creating natural links to a site in order to improve search engine rankings is one often tried remedy. This article attempts to show some good and bad approaches to “creating” “natural” links.

One-way linking is a newer scheme for creating “natural” looking links. Your site is called A; you link to a site we’ll call B; B links to a site designated C… Site n links back to site A. With a large number of intermediate sites in the chain, the scheme is almost undetectable by search engines. If at least some of the intermediate sites have valid natural links to sites outside the chain, the scheme is not detectable.

One-way linking (also called triangle linking) is a newer scheme for creating “natural looking” links. Call your site A; on site A you place a link to site B; site B links to site C… N; site n has a link to A. There is no detectable link exchange to alert search engines. With several intermediate sites in the chain the scheme is almost undetectable. If some of the intermediate sites have valid natural links from outside the chain the search engines cannot detect the non-natural links.

The most successful sites on the internet provide content that millions of other sites link to. These are natural links. They grew from public recognition of the sites’ offerings to visitors without any need of artificial link creation. The best way to generate a vast number of natural links is to develop and provide content that users want to share. A site with lame content will never achieve an effective number of natural links.

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