Why backlinks are important for Google?

[burling]

Hello guys,

Why backlinks are important for Google?

[dombowkett]

Because Google doesn't improve website ranking without backlinks.

[dennis123]

Backlinks are links that are directed towards your website. ... Backlinks are important for SEO because some search engines, especially Google, will give more credit to websites that have a good number of quality backlinks, and consider those websites more relevant than others in their results pages for a search query.

[brandmedia]

Backlinks are one of the most important aspects of SEO. ... A page with a lot of backlinks tended to rank higher on all major search engines, including Google.

[John-Smith]

As brandmedia said, backlinks are one of the important aspects of SEO but not only one. so focus on other factors as well to improve the position of a website in Google.