Common Link-Building Mistakes to Avoid in SEO
Let’s discuss the top backlink mistakes in off-page SEO that are done by a majority of SEO people today. Whether you are using white hat or black hat link building techniques, there will be some impact on your rankings- for better or worse.
- Focusing only on high DA backlinks
- Getting obsessed with competitors backlinks
- Press Release Link Building
- Blog Comments
- Buying backlinks
- Creating too many backlinks in short period
- Overloading the anchor text
- Backlinks from websites with bad reputation
- Backlinks from irrelevant content
- Low-quality guest posts
- Generating backlinks automatically
- Using Private Blog Networks (PBNs)
- Building links from copied or poor content
- Focusing on quantity over quality
- Not diversifying links
- Building only do-follow links
- Ignoring local SEO link building
- Neglecting internal linking
- Not tracking or monitoring links
- Linking to irrelevant contexts