So what are some off page SEO that you can do to rank your content? There are many ways and we will talk about a few here in this article.

First, off page SEO is everything we do off our websites. So this can be writing articles like this one and link back to your site. It can be submitting your site to social media like Facebook, MySpace, Digg or Twitter.

Why do we have to do things outside of our own website?

For the search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo to think your site is important it needs to be well liked on the internet. If nobody is visiting your site, if nobody is sharing your site, if there is no content linking to your site then that tells the search engines that your site is not very important.

On the other hand if people are ”talking” about your site on the internet, if people tweet about it add it to their Facebook profile, pin pictures in Pinterest, refer to your website in content... then that shows that your site is well liked, that there is a lot of buzz going on around it and that it must be important.

How does off page SEO benefit us?

You can chose to focus only on your website and focus on your on page SEO, post helpful content on a regular basis and so on. The benefit of combining that with some off page SEO is that your rankings in the search engines over time can get better. Not only can your rankings get better, you can also get more traffic and visitors to your site.

So what are some off page SEO we can do?

Content – having links back to your site from content outside of your website is very beneficial. This can be articles relevant to your site content. These articles are submitted to article directories or 2.0 sites. So you would write an article and submit it to an article directory like this one, with a link or two back to your own site.

The benefit of doing this is that you get your link back to your site, but you can also get traffic from the article. Often articles rank well themselves in the search engines, receiving traffic. Another good off page SEO strategy is:

Videos – another good way to get some traffic to your site and post a link back is by creating little videos and submit them to YouTube and other video submission sites. Now if you are not a video pro yourself don`t worry there are affordable places to get this done or even free software where you can learn to do it yourself.

There you have a few tips of off page SEO, how to rank your content.