T he dangers of ignoring Google's "link schemes" guidelines

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In other words, just because a site is popular doesn’t mean it will provide relevant backlink opportunities for you. Here in this tutorial, we’ve outlined a potential use case for Link Intersect: finding the backlinks your local business competitors have. However, that’s not the only use for Link Intersect. Instead of comparing your site to your competitors or nearby competitors, you can compare it to:

Sites or pages about your location (for example: austria number data This can provide opportunities for locally relevant unstructured linked references .
Sites or pages about your industry (fo This can provide opportunities for unstructured, industry-related link references .
If you know what types of links you are trying to find, it should be much easier to choose sites to review against your own sites, and get more relevant opportunities.

If you’ve never started building links before, we encourage you to read Google’s quality guidelines for webmasters, especially its section on “ Link Schemes .” If you were to distill these link guidelines into one rule, it would be this: Don’t build links for the sole purpose of manipulating your site’s ranking in Google Search. That’s fine. Google doesn’t want anyone to embark on any marketing initiative with the sole purpose of improving their rankings. Google wants links to be a natural byproduct of quality work done for your audience. Google may penalize sites that engage in activities such as: