Affiliate Marketing - What are external links and why do they matter?
External links are hyperlinks that point to any domain that isn’t on the original domain, aka if you’re writing an article on your own blog and you’re linking to another website (for whatever reason) this is known as an external link. But why do external links matter for Affiliate Marketing or even for SEO as a whole? Well, if you want answers about external linking, I’ve got them for you! I’m going to cover everything you need to know about external links in this very blog post so be sure to stick around. This information on external links in blogs is going to be useful if you’re a casual blogger, a keen affiliate marketer or an SEO buff like me. What are external links Although I’ve just gone over what is an outbound link, let’s cover it again; External links or outbound links as they are sometimes known, are hyperlinks which point from an original domain to another. Generally, the purpose of adding an outbound link to a blog post is to keep the ...