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Website Authority – Top Benefits

12 February 2010 and last modified on February 21st, 2010 at 4:28 pm, 3 Comments

Website authority is important in web design and website promotion. Your Web design company Internet marketing consultant will often advise you on the importance of building website authority. In order to understand why is it important for a company to focus on building website authority, it is important to first understand what it means.

What is website authority?

Website authority is a term used to describe the trust worthiness of the information offered by websites. Websites with authority are trusted more by users. The reasons for building the authority of your company’s website should hence be obvious.

The main benefits of Website authority

Establishing your website authority within your niche has many advantages.

1) Authority websites are trusted more by users

There is a lot of information on the internet however there is no standard method to validate the information found on a site. Users tend to trust the information found on authority websites and often turn to them in order to find information on specific topics.

2) Authority websites are also trusted more by search engines

One of the biggest benefits of establishing website authority is because search engines like Google favour authority sites in search results. Search engine trust the information and consider it to be of high value. As a result authority websites tend to rank favourably on search engines above other results.

3) Branding

If your company’s website establishes itself as an authority within its field, it will have a positive impact on how your company’s brand is perceived by other users and businesses. On of the main reasons why it is common for company websites to also offer a range of information and resources on topics related to the industry it operates in. Quality content covering topics related to your industry is the foundation for establishing website authority.

4) Stability

Although search engine ranking can fluctuate, search engine traffic is more stable than traffic from other sources such as banner marketing, pay per click or even social media. Websites with high authority will continue to receive traffic from search engines for many years to come as they are considered trustworthy sources of information by search engines.

5) Viral effect on link building and promotion

Authority websites are often quoted and referenced by others. Although it can take time to establish website authority, there is a viral effect on promotion of your business and back links further. Authority websites attract more and more inbound links from other topical or industry related sites. As long as content is added on a regular basis, the website will continue to maintain its authority.

6) Increase in Customer loyalty

Visitor loyalty is key to the long term success of your company. Authority websites provide users with valuable information. Users tend to revisit the site again in future as opposed to searching again for sites that offer information on a particular topic.

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3 Comments »

  • Brett Schaefer said:

    This is a really important point when your selecting your niche.

    I think many internet marketers start out with a higher
    number of products and services without focus.

    This leads in turn to a continual focus on writing about / setting up blogs and websites / promoting / a wide variety of affiliate products and services.

    The end result here is that very little time has been spent building identity, credibility and an authoritative stance on a particular niche.

    # 7 May 2010 at 9:19 pm
  • Ian said:

    I was very happy to run across this post. So many people misunderstand the distinction between PageRank and “authority”. Your observation that authority basically can be summed up in one word – Trust – is spot on. I think of it in terms of real life. When you have someone’s trust, your relationship with them is so much easier. When you break that trust, this get ugly.

    Same on Internet. If you can build trust with your readers and the search engines, you get a lot more latitude in what you can do with your site in terms of link building, reciprocal linking, guest posting, etc.

    For me, building an “authoritative” website is always my goal. If PageRank comes along for the ride, great.
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    # 25 July 2011 at 8:39 am
  • Taylor said:

    Authority has to swing both ways to really benefit it from it on a website.

    You have to meet Google’s version of authority to get ranked.

    And when someone clicks on the site, you have to meet their expectations of authority for them to perform an action that is beneficial to you and them.

    One without the other isn’t going to work

    # 12 August 2011 at 4:14 pm

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