Discover the best link building strategies and follow our backlink tutorial to improve your Google SEO efforts. Learn how to get quality backlinks to your website and our link building tutorial is updated for 2018 and 2019.

Link Building Tutorial:

1 - Create Quality Content - The number one way to get people to link to your website is to consistently create great content on your website.

2 - Repurpose Content - If you have a great article, you can turn that into a video, podcast, infographic, and more. I see a ton of success and many more shares and backlinks when I can create a few great pieces of content and turn it into one. My YouTube videos regularly get shares and backlinks, and my website gets more when I add my content their as well.

3 - Content Marketing - If you can build an engaged audience on social media and your email list, they will help amplify your content. Your biggest fans generally have websites as well and even if they don't, they will share your content on social media. The ultimate goal is to get more eyeballs because those people are going to help with your link building.

4 - Guest Blogging, Podcasting, Interviews, Videos, etc. -

Link Building has changed over the years and a recent remark by Google's John Mueller reminded me to tell people about my backlink strategy. John Mueller said: "If *you're* making quality links to your site, then that would be considered against our webmaster guidelines, and by that, those links would definitely not be considered "quality"."

SERoundTable Story: https://www.seroundtable.com/quality-links-against-googles-webmaster-guidelines-26456.html

Google Webmaster Central Help Forum Discussion on Backlinks and Creating New Backlinks with John Mueller's Comments: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/ZN_kjT7CZDc/discussion

I don't claim to have the greatest Link Building Strategy and

Backlinks for Beginners - Backlinks are when other websites link to your website. Google tracks all backlinks and uses them as a piece of their Google Search Algorithm. A website with quality content and a lot of backlinks will generally always rank high, whereas a website with little to no content or low-quality content, without a link of backlinks will not rank well.

Helpful Link Building Tutorials and Resources:

Neil Patel: https://neilpatel.com/blog/13-efficient-link-building-strategies-for-busy-marketers/

Robbie Richards: https://www.robbierichards.com/seo/13-killer-link-building-strategies/

Moz: https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

Yoast: https://yoast.com/successful-linkbuilding-strategy/

Backlink Checker Tools:

https://monitorbacklinks.com/seo-tools/free-backlink-checker

https://ahrefs.com/backlink-checker