subject: For A Better Search Engine Ranking Your Backlinks Must Be Valid [print this page] So you have spent hours if not days building backlinks to your site hoping for a better search engine ranking for your website. Perhaps you will have used one of many link packages that you can obtain on any number of forums or you have gone out and found the websites manually. Whichever way your backlinks have been gained you probably feel good that you have
got so many new links to your site.
Before you congratulate your self too much though there are a couple of things that you have to remember where backlinks are concerned. One is that unless the site is of good authority in Google's eyes then there is a chance that your link will not get indexed. Another thing is that with the amount of individuals spamming certain sites some website owners are becoming fed up and deleting a persons profiles from their sites.
Therefore it is important to know which of the links are indexed and which of your profiles remain active. Now you've got two choices when doing this, either manual or automatic. If you choose to try and do it manually you'll need to take each link and check it in Google to see if it has been indexed.
You will then need to take that indexed link and check the site that you placed it on to determine if it is still valid.
Alternatively you can use software to automate the process for you and although there is a cost this will save you lots of time in the long run. Imagine trying to check a batch of fifty backlinks, how long would that take if you did it manually. It would probably take you a good few hours and how deflated would you feel if you found that after doing all that hard work you only had a couple of live links that were indexed.
Now take a look at it using this method, you automate the process and it tells you that you only have two valid live links. Although not what you would like to see five minutes when using a software program is better than two hours to get told that. Although automation is definitely the way to go when wanting to check the validity of your links, you must be careful as there are lots of people out there offering you the next best thing which will do this job at a big price.
If you are just starting out then there is some great software on the market that will do a good job for you at less than $20. To get a better search engine ranking it is not the quality of the software you have but the quality and the validity of your backlinks.
