What are backlinks ?

Anyone explain what are backlinks ?

Backlinks are links that point to your website. These are seen by search engines as one website vouching for another. In 2015, back links are still a core component of Google’s algorithm and play a crucial role in how websites are ranked by Google in the organic search results.

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Backlinks are the links that are on someone's website and point to your website or you can say that your website link on someone's website is the backlink to your website.

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Backlinks are URLs placed on a webpage with the help of keywords hyperlinked to redirect traffic to your website. These backlinks are helpful to build keyword ranking and also generate traffic from them.

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The answer you can go to google search, no need to ask the same

Thanks for a good discussion about backlinks but I'm looking to know how to check backlinks of a website & what are the best backlinks online tools ?

As your question itself tells out back link, its used to create back links by the means of SEO process. The back links helps the website in many ways.

A backlink is, simply put, a link from another website to yours. Backlinks can also be called hyperlinks, incoming links, inbound links, or just links—they all mean the same thing. In the context of search engine optimization (SEO), a backlink is an important factor in determining how well your pages rank.

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Backlink is a link one website gets from another website. Backlinks make a huge impact on a website’s prominence in search engine results. This is why they are considered very useful for improving a website’s SEO ranking. Search engines calculate rankings using multiple factors to display search results. No one knows for sure how much weight search engines give to backlinks when listing results, however what we do know for certain is that they are very important.

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in simple language, backlinks two websites refer to each other's website through own website that's called back link.

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Backlink is a link one website gets from another website. Backlinks make a huge impact on a website's prominence in search engine results. This is why they are considered very useful for improving a website's SEO ranking. Search engines calculate rankings using multiple factors to display search results.

Backlinks or Inbound Links (IBL’s) are links that are directed towards your website and are the building blocks to good SEO Optimization. The number of backlinks a website has is in a good indicator of its popularity or importance with search engines. Search engines, namely Google, give more credit to websites that have a larger number of quality backlinks and consider those websites more relevant in a search query.

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Anyone explain what are backlinks ?

Backlinks are external links to your website that shows the transition from one site to another site or you can say one page to another. They help to index your website easily.

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Originally Posted by NealK

Anyone explain what are backlinks ?

In simple way we can say backlinks are links that point to your website