From Wikipedia:
What are backlinks?: "...
Backlinks (or back-links (UK)) are incoming
links to a
website or
web page. In the
search engine optimization (SEO) world, the number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (though other measures, such as
PageRank, are likely to be more important). Outside of SEO, the backlinks of a webpage may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page. In basic link terminology, a
backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or
top level domain) from another web node (Björneborn and Ingwersen, 2004). Backlinks are also known as
incoming links,
inbound links,
inlinks, and
inward links."...
And always from Wiki:
..."
Search engines often use the number of backlinks that a website has as one of the factors for determining that website's search engine ranking. Websites often employ various techniques (called
search engine optimization) to increase the number of backlinks pointing to their website.
There are various factors for determining the quality of a back link. Main factor is the page rank of the web page giving the back link. Back link from high ranked site is of good quality. Second factor is the subject of the pages which are linked by a back link. If both sites are discussing the same topic, the back link is relevant and of good quality. Third important thing is the anchor text of the back link. If the anchor text is related to the theme of the website (where the link is pointing), then it is called a good quality back link. A good quality back link will increase the page rank of your website...."
For the full wiki text go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlinks
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Originally Posted by adiseshu
what are backlinks ?how to use them?how to get backlinks?
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