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What links are considered “high quality”? Find out from link building expert, Paddy Moogan, who talks you through link relevancy, link diversity, link authority, and the sustainability of your link building efforts.
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Video Transcription
Hi, Moz fans. Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. I'm Paddy Moogan. I'm the co-founder of Aira, a UK-based digital agency. Today, I'm going to talk about link building, in particular what are the makings of a high-quality link.
So we're going to talk about link relevancy, link diversity, and link authority, and then also talk a little bit about the long-term of link building, how you can think about making it sustainable, and how to make sure that what you're doing now is going to work in the future — how to approach doing that as well.
Link relevance
Page relevance
So firstly, let's talk about relevance. So we're going to start with page relevance. The key thing to keep in mind here is thinking about your target audience for your product or your service. Think about what kinds of pages would be relevant to them. What kind of content would they read? What kind of articles would they save online and go off and try and search for? Because once you've done that, you've got the