Most of you must be aware of the fact that Search Engine Optimization consists of two things i.e. On Page Optimization and Off Page Optimization. In my previous blog of this series “On Page Optimization – All You Need To Know”, we discussed about On Site Activities that can help in boosting your website ranking and visibility. In this blog “Off Page Optimization: Everything You Need To Know”, we are discussing the basics about Off Page SEO, its definition and how essential is this to increase you website ranking.
Definition of Off Page Optimization
As per definition, Off Page Optimization refers to techniques that can be used to improve the position of a web site with the related keywords in the search engine results page (SERPs). It includes hosts of activities used to improving search engine and user perception of a site’s popularity, relevance, trustworthiness, and authority. This is accomplished by linking your webpages to other reputable places on the Internet like pages, sites, people, etc. Many people associate off-page SEO with link building but actually it is not so. It is much beyond that. It is much more towards brand building like your brand mentions including your site URL or brand name mentioned on another website even without a hyperlink.
Off Page Optimization tells Google Bots what others think about your site. Having a high domain link on other website pointing to your pages, lets search engines assume that you’ve got great content which eventually helps in increasing your website’s relevance, trustworthiness, and authority. The website having high quality and useful mentions on other websites in the form of references (links), having mentions on social media (Facebook likes, tweets, Pins, +1’s etc.) is considered as more trustworthy in the eyes of Google Bots. This eventually increases the relevance score of your website which in turn results in better ranking with the targeted keywords.
As search algorithms and ranking factors are constantly changing, it is a common perception within the SEO community that relevance, trustworthiness, and authority plays a crucial role in page’s ability to rank. The back links are used by Search engines as indicators for the linked content, so a site with many high value backlinks will usually rank better than an otherwise equal site with fewer backlinks.
Benefits of Off Page Optimization
The main objective of Search Engine optimization, whether On Page or Off page is to get high ranking and traffic. So, you can use off-page SEO to achieve your purpose.
High Ranking: As I have already mentioned that website’s relevance, trustworthiness, and authority are considered as crucial factors for search engine ranking. Though, we don’t know the full algorithm Google uses to rank content, data from our Search Engine Ranking, yet study shows that off-site SEO-related factors likely carry more than 50% of the ranking factor weight. So, by doing Off Page Optimization, you can increase the probability of your website to rank in search engine results pages (SERPs).
More Traffic: Submit Guest Post on other sites will also help in fetching traffic to your website. For example, if you have submitted content on website having High DA/PA, there are chances that readers navigate to your main website through URL while searching information. The reason is simple, if you are spreading relevant information over internet, then your readers will surely navigate to the original source.
Hope, you must have understood the basics of “Off Page Optimization”. In my next blog, I will be covering activities involved in “Off Page Optimization”. You will get to know how you can earn quality back links and what should be your content marketing strategy to get high ranking.