{"id":1728,"date":"2013-11-30T12:58:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T12:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zuantechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2017-03-20T15:02:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T15:02:52","slug":"history-of-seo-link-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zuantechnologies.com\/blog\/history-of-seo-link-building\/","title":{"rendered":"History of SEO Link Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who work in the SEO industry might have known the history of link building which is just similar to a roller coaster. But however, the actual history does not have a long length of time.<\/p>\n<p>Link building began with the invention of Google, where the important factors of SEO came into existence with the backlink profile showing who is linking to your site. As SEO is constant evolving the era of link building practices is quite filled with interesting stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zuantechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/History-for-SEO-Link-Builidings.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1731\" title=\"History-for-SEO-Link-Builidings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zuantechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/History-for-SEO-Link-Builidings.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following are those so called \u2018link building trends\u2019 over time from the past till present:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Link Exchanges \u2013 exchanging link with other websites to rank higher.<\/li>\n<li>Email Link Requests \u2013 bulk emails to the authority websites asking them for a backlink.<\/li>\n<li>Directory Submissions \u2013 submitting site to open directories relevant to your niche.<\/li>\n<li>Blog Comments \u2013 commenting or participating on discussions for gaining links.<\/li>\n<li>Article Submission \u2013 advertising your website that helps in giving links as well as visitors if the article is well established with powerful ranking.<\/li>\n<li>Blog-roll Links \u2013 selling a post on the sidebar and displaying recommended blogs for higher click throughs that was an abused.<\/li>\n<li>Paid Links \u2013 placing links on a paid basis which was later noticed by Google and made the links with no-follow attributes.<\/li>\n<li>Link networks \u2013 targeting links to your site that you need rank in the search engine which has become a downturn.<\/li>\n<li>Link Bait \u2013 hosting content on your blog only for the sake of gaining links from high quality sites.<\/li>\n<li>Guest Blogging \u2013 posting content on other\u2019s for gaining backlinks.<\/li>\n<li>Broken link building \u2013 finding some quality broken links and replacing it with your links.<\/li>\n<li>Press Releases \u2013 gaining backlinks by directly promoting about your products or service which sometimes results in flop.<\/li>\n<li>Blog networks \u2013 posting thousands of articles on high PR blogs only to gain links.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zuantechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/future-of-SEO1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1736\" title=\"future-of-SEO\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zuantechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/future-of-SEO1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a>So what will be the future of SEO?<\/p>\n<p>Whether a huge drop in social signals that gained ranking to your site?<\/p>\n<p>Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>Search engines become cleverer than ever in its algorithms!<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s wait and watch the upcoming quakes!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who work in the SEO industry might have known the history of link building which is just similar to a roller coaster. 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