{"id":353,"date":"2008-09-05T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/link-popularity\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T10:32:00","slug":"link-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/link-popularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Link Popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Link popularity and link quality are very important because every major search engine now considers them as a part of their ranking algorithms. If you don&#8217;t have links, you won&#8217;t rank well for competitive keywords.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Link popularity consists of:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of links<\/li>\n<li>Quality of links<\/li>\n<li>Number of times people click on links to your site<\/li>\n<li>How long end users visit your site<\/li>\n<li>How often people return to your site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">In other words, do your site visitors:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Continue navigating your site?<\/li>\n<li>Link to your site?<\/li>\n<li>Bookmark your site?<\/li>\n<li>Return to your site?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Factors That Affect Popularity<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Substantial and unique content<\/li>\n<li>How other sites are linked to your site (anchor text)<\/li>\n<li>Site usability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link popularity and link quality are very important because every major search engine now considers them as a part of their ranking algorithms. If you don&#8217;t have links, you won&#8217;t rank well for competitive keywords. Link popularity consists of: Number of links Quality of links Number of times people click on links to your site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}