If you are a business owner who would like to venture into internet marketing need to focus on two things: developing the contents of your website (on-page SEO) and creating links going to your sites (off-page SEO). Both can be done by a virtual assistant, but the latter is why you need to hire a link builder in particular.

A link builder’s duty is to create links from different sites in the internet that directs back to your website. This is important because the most powerful and often-used search engines – Google, most notably – uses these links (called backlinks) to quantify the relevance of your site to the product or service you are providing: the more links are built, and depending on its quality, the more search engines will find your site relevant.

Link building is one of the cornerstones of search engine optimization. When you have a link builder, you are assured that your website continuously get link juice (or “votes” from other websites). Paired with good and active content, this will lead to your site getting higher rankings in search engine queries, which in turn directs more traffic to your site. And with more traffic comes more customers.

However, link building is not very straightforward. It is not a good idea to create links solely going to your home page: search engines find it more natural to have links going to different pages within your website. It is part of a link builder’s task to recognize which pages within your website to optimize using the best keywords for it.

Link building employs well planned methods. Having websites as link-partners is not that easy because there is a need to know how all the techniques work and which sites come into play. Sometimes a hundred backlinks isn’t enough. Depending on your competitor sites, you may need to create as many as a thousand links or so.

A more practical reason why you need to hire a link builder is that link building takes time. If you want to focus more on the core aspects of your company such as drafting business plans and improving your product/services, you need to delegate the off-page optimization of your site to a link builder. Link building is a meticulous task that takes hours to do: related sites have to found, their rankings and link properties checked and comments reviewed for appropriateness. Using robots to build quick links is no longer advisable.

It is important to recognize that link building doesn’t give instant results (your site don’t get to the first page search results overnight) and some time may need to pass to see improvements in your site’s ranking. Even with great in-site content but without link building, your site will never get the ranking it deserves – and this is why you need to hire a link builder.

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