What Is Off-Page SEO? A Comprehensive Guide

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What Is Off-Page SEO? A Comprehensive Guide 

Erika VaragouliMar 14, 202215 min read

Off-Page SEO

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If you want your site to rank on Google and increase your brand’s organic traffic, you’ll need to look at more than your on-page SEO strategy. 

Off-page SEO is one of the essential parts of a successful SEO strategy. We’ll share what it is, how it works, and how to use it to increase your site’s visibility. 

What Is Off-Page SEO?

Off-page SEO refers to all SEO tactics that don’t involve updating or publishing content to your website. 

In the past, many used “off-page SEO” and “link building” interchangeably, but in reality, there are many off-page SEO tactics you can use, including: 

  • brand building
  • citation building
  • content marketing
  • social media, and more. 

These tactics help both search engines and users better understand your website and increase your site’s authority, trust, and relevance.

Think of it like this:

  • Your website = on-page SEO
  • Another site or platform = off-page SEO 

On-Page vs. Off-Page SEO vs. Technical SEO

All SEO tactics can be categorized into three buckets: on-Page SEO, off-Page SEO, and technical SEO. But what’s the difference?

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  • On-page SEO covers the tactics you use on your site that help search engines understand your content better and rank. These all fall under on-page SEO, creating content, optimizing title tags, image optimization, and more.
  • Off-page SEO includes activities from or “behind the scenes” of your website.
  • Technical SEO refers to activities that directly impact the indexing and crawling of your site by search engines. Examples include site speed optimization, structured data, and more.

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