How will you score a backlink on a scale of 0 to10
As you enter the world of SEO, you begin to work on the on-page optimisation of the website. Having been lost in the on-page practices, you forget off-page practices, like backlinking, is as significant as any other trick to rank your website.
What is backlinking?
Backlinking is as simple as it sounds. It is the connection between two web pages. While you may think that you have built internal links to your website, it is not backlinking. Backlinking is beyond just linking your webpage to various other platforms. Long ago, when optimisation was simple, people used to create backlinks on countless websites, irrespective of their ranks, and relevancy. However, the time has changed now, and Google has come up with amendments related to backlinking, to rank their website higher and making it search engine optimised.
Google is more about quality than quantity as it counts relevant backlinks of a website. Let’s say that your website has a niche in digital marketing and you are connecting it to a food blogging website. Has it been a few years ago, it might have helped, but in the present scenario, this will moderately decrease your ranking.
How does backlinking help?
How many of us know that spreading a good word of mouth is never a bad idea? While you may not realise the worth of telling people about your business website, backlinks are surely way ahead in this case. You can check the referral traffic from your backlinks landing on your page by Google webmaster. But in which ways it really helps?
You must be new to SEO not to know the benefits of backlinking but here are the few plus points of creating your backlinks :
1. The number of relevant backlinks helps you with the ranking of your website.
2. Google crawlers check the number of websites linked to your website.
3. It brings relevant traffic to your website.
4. The informational and resourceful content on the website, where you acquire the link to your website, will provide knowledge to the readers, helping you build more audience.
5. You never know, the leads may turn into customers too.
How will you score backlinks on a scale of 0 to 10?
With a number of ways to monitor your backlinks, you still can’t score it on a scale of 0-10. Here’s a scorecard for you to help in choosing the third party platform to post your website’s link.
| Score | DA | Content | Niche |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Poor | Adult content | – |
| 1-3 | Low | Spammy content | – |
| 4-6 | Moderate | Lean content | – |
| 7-8 | Good | Related content | Moderate niche |
| 9-10 | High | Relevant content | Very niche |
Since the table itself is explanatory, let’s read what it has to say more.
How relevant will it be if you provide the link to your website on an adult website? Let’s be honest; your backlink score will be zero. Consider the domain authority of the website too. A website with a poor domain authority will not help you in boosting the rank of your website. While a website with a lower domain authority as to 10, and spammy content in it, which itself may get penalise anytime, will provide a low backlink score from 1-3 to your website. Nobody wants their website to have low backlink score, affecting the ranking of their website. Thence, 4-6 is an average score for your website. To get your backlink score between 4 to 6, the DA of the third party website should be moderate enough for a search engine to at least recognise it, with an okay-ish content on it.
As though, the domain authority of a website ranges from 0-100, a good DA is 30+. Linking your website to a website with 30+ DA, related content, and have a moderately relevant niche will back up your score from 7-8. You have to be careful with your content and the choice of the website if you want to score above 7. Only if the content is relevant and you have the same niche for a website with high domain authority, your content will be approved in one go, and your backlink score will rise to 9-10.
Competing with on-page SEO tactics, don’t forget to provide backlinks and let Google rank your website higher in the searched results.
