Backlinks?

[Mr.'BackUp']

I have been reading a lot about SEO, but still aren't sure what backlinks are and how I can implement them?

Help..!

[seobook]

backlink = link to your site.

[jewboy]

Backlinks are probably the most important factor for rankings. Essentially, when
a web page has a text or image that hyperlinks to your site - that is called a backlink.

A brief guide can be found at www.google.com/webmasters

Basically, you want to establish as many backlinks to your site as possible. You can buy, trade, or gain links naturally. There is much written on the subject.

Hope this helped.

Avi Wilensky

[Scribbller]

Well other sites linking back to your sites is back links in very simple terms, seo book and avi explained it very well. The aim is to have back links from sites with high page rank and sites which are somewhat related to the content of your site. The advantage of having good back links is that you do not have to pay or wait for a long time to have your site listen in SERPS. Since google bot will normally be visiting already established sites and follows links from there, on finding your link your site will be visited and thus indexed.

[cooluks]

Backlinks is a links or sites linking to your site...

[Estreetloans]

I think you have to be careful, were you link to. Random linking won't help your site any. From what I understand, the link should be from a site with related content or value. There are various ways to trade links, but I dont think it is always advantageous. We have a link on our website that allow people to copy and paste the code to link back to us, but we get quite a bit of spam. A lot of people asking to trade links, and place our link on some ramdom directory, not even on their site!
So be careful, and check and make sure the people that you do trade with actually place your link on their site.

[x3mario]

Backlink is good to your site when it is came from relevant site or good PR site. But link came from nowhere doesn't help your site. It's a link farm.

[stymiee]

But link came from nowhere doesn't help your site. It's a link farm.

A link from an unrelated site doesn't make your site or their site a link farm. It just makes the link less valuable from an SEO perspective.

[lajocar]

backlinks are basically votes to your site.

Some search engines rank your site based on the amount of backlinks pointing to yours

[stymiee]

Some search engines rank your site based on the amount of backlinks pointing to yours

Not the amount of backlinks, thequality of backlinks. Not all links are created equal.

[Alfredito]

Not so hard, there are many sites that sell links, just run a search in google. best links are .edu and .gov , once you contact the site's owner, he will make the link for you, all you have to do is pay.. :)

[stymiee]

Not so hard, there are many sites that sell links, just run a search in google. best links are .edu and .gov , once you contact the site's owner, he will make the link for you, all you have to do is pay.. :)

That is a myth. .edu and .gov links are not special in any way at any time.

[Alfredito]

That is a myth. .edu and .gov links are not special in any way at any time.

Well, i dont agree with you, google have much more respect for them then to other high pr links... we can agree not to agree.. :)

[x3mario]

I have nothing to agree with you guys co'z I have no .edu and .gov backlinks yet. Well, if I can gain, maybe that's the time I can share my experience.

[stymiee]

Well, i dont agree with you, google have much more respect for them then to other high pr links... we can agree not to agree.. :)

Google flat out said they aren't special. Are you going to disagree with Google?

And why they aren't special is easy to understand when you think about it. Web pages on .edu and .gov domains tend to rank well because they contain quality content and many webmasters will link to their content as a result. Both of these are key elements in SEO. Also, most .edu pages are published by students and are seen as worthless by Google. Links from those pages are thus worthless despite the fact they are on a .edu TLD.

Also,there are no arbitrary bonuses given by Google. No site gets a bonus because of its TLD or any other factor. Google's PageRank algorithm already determines what is a quality page and what isn't. Arbitrary bonuses aren't needed.

[x3mario]

It's hard to have an argument with guru.

[acwebguru]

You may get some basic idea about backlinks form www.google.com/webmasters ...Though the quality backlinks helps your site to get boost....... ;)

[x3mario]

You may get some basic idea about backlinks form www.google.com/webmasters...Though the quality backlinks helps your site to get boost.......

Yeah, I know about backlink. My point is I don't go arguing to others. What I've read and learned keeps on my mind.

[neuronimbus]

There is no point of any arguement in the back links even about .edu and .gov.

They generally have more PR from Google, because they have much traffic than a .com or any other domain. That's only why.

Back links can be defined simply just by - your links on other websites are back links of your website.

[stymiee]

They generally have more PR from Google, because they have much traffic than a .com or any other domain. That's only why.

That's not true. PR has nothing to do with traffic. It has to do with link popularity and only link popularity. Most .edu and .gov pagesdo not have high PR. And the ones that do have high PR because they have great content and thus have a lot of links pointing to them.