What is Link Building and Why is it Important? - 3.1. SEO Course by Ahrefs

In lesson 3.1 of our SEO basics course, you’ll learn what link building is and why it’s important.

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Link building is the process of getting other websites to link to a page on your website. And these hyperlinks are called backlinks.

While the end result of link building seems simple and makes sense, the part that most people fail to understand and can’t get right is the process. This ultimately boils down to emailing complete strangers and asking them to link to you.

Effective link building is tough. Why is it even worth the effort? You’ll find out in the video.

Timestamps

0:22 What is link building
3:43 Why it's worth the effort

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[Web]

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Thanks, Sam, you explain the topics in the easiest way.👍👍👍

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[saidahmed]

Perfect Sam. Looking forward for the next lesson:)

[militaryalphabet]

always love videos from ahref, really taught me, in working in the internet world

[tharunhome]

Hey Sam, I'm feeling very happy to get Another massive Module 😊

[rommelrodrigues]

The video is valuable ... lookinhg forward to more videos from Sam

[YorkshirePiper]

It's a lot of work for little gain and will take up all your time. Just find a recommended SEO specialist in your specific niche and they will do the work for you and quicker

[digitalvivekjha]

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[fablats]

If my company has around 5k backlinks but they all come from a business database websites, not topically related, should i leave them or disavow everything?

[itsmeun-knowable]

⚠️ Please tell us in your video how to ask journalists OR make relationships with them,
For high quality backlinks 💯

[juanmisterioso]

hola, tengo una consulta. para que un link pueda pasar fuerza a otra web, necesita que los usuarios hagan clic con regularidad o solamente basta con que exista ese link??

[carrydj]

TO BUILD LINKS IN HQ SITES IS VERY HIGH price

[letslearn]

I sent 75 super-personalised emails using Broken link building technique and just got one low quality link and 10+ paid link offers?
Has outreach link building died?

[farrisfahad]

I just want to say that I love your website and I understand that you are a business and want to make a profit, but why are your prices so high. Why don't you include something for users with a small income and budget? I find myself wanting to use the website from day to day and not every day all month. If you could create a daily or weekly plans that would be very helpful. Plus you get to learn more about your users and their needs. Without testing you would not know.

[bizdrip-truebusinessknowle]

Please guys dont buy the backlinks. Google will ban you 😅

[pete]

Buy the magic question is why? Why a website A whould need to link to website B even if B has good quality content? Naturally makes no sense because at all as website A want users to stay on that site for as long as possible and not send them off somewhere else. I really don't get it and everyone does it because google say so. If this wasn't a ranking factor, I can guarantee you no one will link to no one. Google know this and something doesn't match... Naturally (which 99% never happens) a big site already ranking higher, should find this smaller site (ranking on page 10 maybe) with great content....how can this naturally happen? and why this top ranking site should link to some other site when they are fully capable to make same or even better content to keep visitors on their site? It just makes no sense to me and google know 100% that 95% all backlinks are bought, that means that is not necessarly good content....hence, when I search on Google for something, 90% of the times gives me no information at all.