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Off-Page SEO

What Is Off-Page SEO?

Off-page SEO is everything influencing your rankings that happens outside your own site: backlinks, brand mentions, reviews, citations and third-party coverage. It is the half of SEO you influence rather than control.

Why Off-Page SEO matters for SEO

Off-page signals are how search engines assess whether anyone else considers you credible, which on-page work cannot demonstrate on its own. It is also where the highest-risk tactics live, since manipulating these signals is what most manual actions target.

Pro tip on Off-Page SEO

Earn coverage by producing things worth citing: original data, tools, research. Keep business listings consistent. Treat any tactic that buys signals at scale as a risk decision rather than a growth tactic.

Related terms

BacklinkBacklinks are the largest component of off-page signalsOn-Page SEOOn-page and off-page are the two halves of the discipline

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Off-page SEO checklist

Off-page work is wasted if the pages earning links are not indexable. CrawlRaven checks the on-site foundation those signals point at.

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