Off-Page SEO
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Getting your website noticed by the search engines requires more than compelling content and excellent technical SEO. Robust off-page SEO is vitally important when it comes to achieving search engine rankings. Off-site SEO efforts boost your website’s rankings by strengthening its online presence and conveying trust, authority, and expertise.
Unlike on-page tactics, off-page SEO refers to elements not actually on the pages of your website that still influence its search performance greatly. Off-site SEO factors convey a site’s popularity and its relevance on a particular subject. A website with very strong off-page SEO is viewed by search engines as a trusted authority on its subject matter. One of the key components of off-page SEO is link building.
Globe Runner’s link building experts have years of experience obtaining high-quality backlinks for our clients. This complex process requires planning, skill, and expertise that isn’t gained overnight. We believe our strong manual link building service sets our off-site SEO services apart from other Dallas SEO agencies.
Link Building Services
Link building is at the heart of any good off-page SEO program. Backlinks (hyperlinks pointing to your website from a trusted, high-authority website) have long been considered one of the key components of the major search engines’ algorithms. In fact, Google has even recently admitted that links are one of their top three ranking factors! In spite of all this, a large search traffic study shows that more than 66% of all web pages have no backlinks!
When a respected, trusted website links to a page on your website, Google and other search engines consider this a vote of confidence for the content on your page, and for your website as a whole. The strongest backlinks are those that appear on high-quality websites and whose anchor text (text highlighted in the hyperlink) is relevant to the content on the destination page. The more high-quality backlinks your site has, the better.
Early on, some SEOs sought to “game” the system, using various techniques to quickly create large numbers of backlinks. These tricks include link farm websites, buying backlinks in bulk, embedding links in blog comments, and other methods to try and create phony backlinks to improve rankings. Search engines, and Google, in particular, are very good at detecting backlink schemes. These spammy techniques are less common now but are still in use today. Those who engage in these tactics or do anything that violates Google’s quality rating guidelines put themselves at risk for a manual penalty that removes their website from organic search results. Don’t fall into this trap!
Additional Off-Site SEO Services
We use several other important techniques as part of our off-page SEO services:
- GUEST POSTING. In addition to link building, the experts at Globe Runner employ other important off-site SEO strategies to improve our clients’ websites. One of these is guest posting. This involves writing an article or white paper on your relevant subject matter that links to your website and then securing “guest post” placement for it on a respected, trusted website. Just like manual link building services, this process requires expertise and skill–and our SEO experts do it with great success!
- LOCAL CITATIONS. Another component of off-site SEO strategy involves local citations. When a company is included in various online directories and business lists, this demonstrates to search engines that it is a legitimate business, not a shell company set up to spam consumers. As part of our local SEO service, our team checks directories, removes incorrect and duplicate listings, and ensures all your data is included and correct. We also find additional citation opportunities and help get your organization as much positive online exposure as possible.
- GOOGLE MY BUSINESS LISTING MANAGEMENT & OPTIMIZATION. It’s difficult to imagine how a local business can get by without a Google My Business (GMB) listing. A Google My Business (GMB) listing is an important way for a business to establish an online presence. When your GMB listing reflects current data, it confirms and validates the information on your website, from your hours of operation to your address to your URL. A GMB listing is essential if you want your business to achieve good results for local searches and to be included in Google Maps. Many people use GMB information panels to find out basic information for businesses they frequent. Google constantly adds new fields to GMB to help companies share more information with their customers. GMB listing management and optimization is an important part of Globe Runner’s local SEO services.
- REVIEWS. Just as backlinks are a vote of confidence for your website, positive online reviews show approval and trust for your local business. Therefore, it makes some sense that the sentiment and quantity of your company’s online reviews affect your website’s local SEO ranking. Google has even said that taking the time to respond to your online reviews has a positive impact on your local search engine rankings. Ask us about including review response service in your local SEO service package.
Trust Globe Runner for Off-Site SEO Services
Off-site SEO strategy is too important to be overlooked, but unfortunately, that’s often the case. Perhaps that’s because link building is so difficult to do safely and correctly. Don’t trust one of the other guys to do it and risk a penalty! The link building experts at Globe Runner can handle this challenging task for you and get results!