Reminder of the power of Backlinks

Over the past few months, I’ve been updating the footer section of many websites I manage. The reason being that the old footer.php file in the child theme was causing issues. As I replaced these footer files, I neglected to reinstate a snippet of code containing a link back to my own website.

A few months down the line and consequences of my slackness are now becoming apparent – my search engine rankings have tanked!

This has been wake up call for me. I need to continue be on top of my game in order to stay at the top search engines. Its also a good illustration of how important quality backlinks are to search engine rankings. In the eyes of Google, links are like a vote of confidence in a website. Without good links, it appears your site is not of any value.

Dang. Looks like I’ll be spending some time adding those links back over the coming months.

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