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To improve your Google ranking, gathering high quality links from reputable high authority sites is important. It has the highest on the rankings of the linked pages. However, everybody knows how hard it is to get links from high authority websites.
How to improve your Google ranking through second-tier authority links
In cases where you find yourself always getting rejected by high authority sites that has something to do with your website, you can try to get a link from the websites that are linked by the authority site. Getting links from these sites will still enable the high authority site to have positive influence on your own website.
Things you need to do:
- Look for a high quality. High authority website. (With aged domain, high number of backlinks and good rankings on Google).
- Ask the high authority website to link to your website.
- Visit the websites to which the high authority website links and ask the webmasters of these sites if they want to link to your site.
While these second-tier authority links aren’t as valuable as links from high authority sites, they are still very valuable and chances are that they are more valuable than any other links that you can get from the internet.