What is the most important feature you need to know regarding linking building for SEO?

[Frank S]

There are all kinds of theories regarding linkbuilding and SEO. Have you heard about contextual links? Can you give an example? Why does Google love these links?

[CmsBuffet.com]

The most important feature can be summed in 1 sentence.
build links that will drive Humans and Robots. If the link is for Robots only, it is not a good link.

[beatmakingsoftware]

A contextual link is one in which the clickable text is made up of a keyword phrase you want to obtain a page one listing for in Google.

For example, I'm personally interested in the phrase lead generation. I attempt to secure as many contextual links back to my main site's homepage as I can.

A contextual link can only work if it links to a page primarily about the keyword phrase. For example, the phrase perspex furniture should link to a page about furniture made from perspex.

[Kenny]

Contextual Link are the links which are in the Content means when different people post in own site and place link in that post with your site that is called Contextual links.

[Chau giorgini]

Don't waste your $$$ on the wrong kind of backlinks - They won't work.

Since the Google "Panda" update a lot has changed.

Google has moved the playing field and simple text links are almost counter productive, Pyramid linkbuilding is no longer worth the effort but Contextural Links will get you an almost immediate SERPS improvement.

Most of the backlinks you will be offered today will be either, simple text on blog profiles or blog comments.

Tens of thousands of both can be done in 24hrs using Scrapebox, and because of that Google is now giving simple text links less weight in SERPS.

If you watch the latest video by Matt Cutts, Google's own guru, you will learn that contextural backlinks now have the most value.

Contextural backlinks are links placed inside an article or blog post that are in the context of their surrounding text, so they look natural.

For example an article on firefighting might have links to a firestation URL. These are quite time consuming to create and invariably need an image to get maximum Google juice.

For anyone planning to create backlinks I recommend you to take 3 minutes to watch the Matt Cutts video on http://autoseosystem.com

If you recognise the change he speaks about. then afterwards use their FREE software to create some contextural articles embedded with your own URL.

[Insanebattle540]

Which site is dofollow and which one is nofollow.

[Social Media PRO]

Contextual links are links from similar niche blog/article links through written content.

[Tips Expert]

When looked at from the link building perspective SEO is much more than just creating a link from one website to link to yours. There is targeting to be considered, deep linking as well as various linking methods.
The first thing that one needs to do when creating a link building SEO campaign is to analyze the pages that rank and possible link bait and quality content pages. From that analysis the next step is to identify which pages need to be worked on, those may be some pages that already achieved a ranking for some keywords that may bring you potential traffic. or those can be highly linkable pages that you want to rank for highly searched keywords, or the most important pages for conversions, but those two may be one and the same.
In my view the most important part of link building in SEO is quite often neglected, and that is a good analysis of the linking targets.
Coming to the contextual links,A contextual link is one in which the click able text is made up of a keyword phrase you want to obtain a page one listing for in Google.
For example, I'm personally interested in the phrase lead generation. I attempt to secure as many contextual links back to my main site's homepage as I can.
A contextual link can only work if it links to a page primarily about the keyword phrase. For example, the phrase perspex furniture should link to a page about furniture made from perspex.
Contextual links look natural to Google and other search engines. That's why search engines LOVE contextual links.
I Hope my answer might be of use to you!

The most important feature can be summed in 1 sentence.
build links that will drive Humans and Robots. if the link is for Robots only, it is not a good link.

[Marie William]

According to me create links in high pr sites for better link building. It will gives more traffic and increase ranking also.
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[Excessivesquirrel990]

SEO is a really big subject...
If you want an answer on one leg then you external back-links and more important then the internal, the best quality you can get the better, by quality i mean relevance and high PR.
Of curse that internal links are also something you need to take in mind...
that called on page seo...
Recently I found a really good guide that will give you all the info you need about back links.
It's a WSO so it's not cost much and have really amazing content