What is backlinking?

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I come across this word but what does it mean? I understand that it is a process to link your site to something but what? Could someone please explain thanks
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  • If I make a squidoo page about widgets, and I put a link on that page to my main website on widgets, then I have just given my site a back link.

    Basically any links you create anywhere on the web that point to your site are your backlinks.
  • If you've ever read an article on ezinearticles.com, you'll notice that the author always leaves a link or two at the end. They'll say somthing like "For more information on xx, click here...".

    That my friend, is a backlink.
  • Backlinks are like the people above said, it is a site linking back to you. However, those don't just have to be created by you, yourself. If you have a popular site with good information, people will link to you naturally and you will find that you get backlinks that you never put up on your own.
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    • Hey Sofya!

      A backlink is basically the same thing as a sort of "inlink". It is a link on someone else's site that leads to your own, and it's extremely important to get a large number of backlinks that are of high quality, relevancy and from respected sources.

      First, in SEO, part of the algorithm for ranking your page on search engines is determined by the number and quality of backlinks to your site, providing they occur naturally and you have not purchased them.

      Second, backlinks are how you get known on the Internet. If lots of other sites provide a link to yours, you will get a good amount of traffic to your websites.

      The two places where you should be looking to get backlinks from if you're trying to increase traffic and search engine ranking (where your site will appear on a search engine), are general sources, like digg.com, and on other sites relevant to the topic of your own site.

      As for "how" to get backlinks, there are many ways to increase your backlinks.

      Here are just a couple:

      1. Contact related sites,and ask them to link to you, and you can offer reciprocal linking.

      2. Link threading. This is when you post a link to your site on someone else's blog, usually in the text of your blog. Keep in mind that people can edit your post. Make sure that the website you're directing people to relevant and interesting to readers of that particular blog.

      Hope this makes backlinking a little more clearer.

      Sonam
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  • Great, thanks guys
  • backlinking is one of the easiest and quickest ways to get traffic to your site and its another very important part in the SEO equation. Basically its a link "back" to one of your sites or pages. Its a very simple and easy project to accomplish.
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    What is backlinking?

    I come across this word but what does it mean? I understand that it is a process to link your site to something but what? Could someone please explain thanks