Google's webmaster tendencies analyst, John Mueller, recommends you don't give attention to link building and in case you do, it may lead to more harm for your website than anything good.
Google's John Mueller was captured saying live in a Google+ hangout on Friday morning that webmasters should avoid trying to focus on link building. John went on to add that doing so can in the end lead to more harm than good for your website.
John mentioned this on the 55:40 mark of the video when a webmaster requested, "is link building in any means good?" John's initial response was, "normally, I'd try to keep away from that."
Right here is the complete transcript of John's response:
That could be a good query.
Usually, I'd attempt to keep away from that.
So that you're actually certain that your content material sort of stands by itself and make it attainable for different folks in fact to hyperlink to your content material. Make it straightforward, perhaps, put just a little widget in your web page, should you like this, that is how one can hyperlink to it. Guarantee that the URLs in your website are straightforward to repeat and paste. All of these issues make it slightly bit simpler.
We do use hyperlinks as a part of our algorithm however we use heaps and plenty of different elements as properly. So solely specializing in hyperlinks might be going to trigger extra issues on your web page that really helps.
You'll be able to hearken to the query and reply your self beneath within the video embed, once more on the 55 minute and 40 second mark:
