Blog Audit Challenge 2018
It's Saturday and that means it's time for another installment of our blog audit challenge. How are you doing with the challenge so far? Have you noticed changes in traffic to your own book blog since starting the challenge? Is the challenge helping to motivate you to become a better blogger? I'd love to hear your feedback.
Anyway, without further ado, let's get on to this week's topic. This week we're taking a closer look at links.
This Week's Topic: Links
I'm going to break this post down into two parts; Backlinks, and internal links.
Backlinks
Before we jump into this any further let's take a look at the different types of backlinks.
1) Natural backlinks.
These are SEO gold and what we all hope for. This is when someone from another website finds your content useful and so they link their page to yours.
2) Manual backlinks.
This is when you ask other bloggers to link their website with yours by emailing them or submitting sites to directories.
3) Self created backlinks
These are created by you by blog commenting, forum signatures, etc...
High quality backlinks offer most value for SEO so you should be looking for highly authoritative sites that fall into your niche.
Internal links
Internal linking is when you link one post to another post on site.
Why add internal links?
1) Decreases your bounce rate
2) Increases user interaction time
3) Improves indexing
4) Increases SEO score
By adding internal links you increase Dwell time and CTR (Click Through Rate). Dwell time is the length of time a visitor spends on a page before returning to the SERPs. More time is what you're aiming for. So what you want to do is create content that hooks readers for a longer time.
We touched on longer posts when we discussed keywords and SEO, but internal links play an important role in Dwell time too. In a perfect world a reader would come to your blog, read a post, and then go on to click through to another post on site, and then another, etc...
This Week's Task:
- Work on adding more manual and self created backlinks for your blog on highly authoritative sites in your niche.
- Research to find out about any natural backlinks you might not be aware of.
Missed a post? Here's a round up of what we've covered so far:
backlinks
Blog Audit
Blog Audit Challenge
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blogging
blogging advice
blogging tips
book blog
book blogger
book bloggers
book blogging
internal linking
Jo Linsdell
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12 comments
OMG - I am such a lazy blogger!
ReplyDeleteYou're a great blogger!
DeleteI created a page this week that has a month by month list of links to my posted reviews. I am going to keep updating it and it makes it so much easier if someone is looking for a specific review.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great idea. Will definitely make it easier to find a specific book review.
DeleteI've gone through your previous posts in this series, they're really useful thanks!
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure. I'm glad you've found this blogging series useful. 😊
DeleteI had no idea! Your audit posts have been super helpful to a novice like me!
ReplyDeleteSo glad you're finding them helpful. 😁
DeleteGood advice!
ReplyDeleteThanks. Glad it was helpful.
DeleteI really didn't now about that great advise Jo, thank you so much for sharing your awesome post.
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure. Glad you found it helpful. Always happy to help a fellow blogger.
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