What is a backlink?

[siddu]

What is a backlink?

[charcoal]

Backlink is a URL that directs to your website from other and search engine count it as a vote for PR

[pascalfringe]

Backlink is what you just left above as your signature !

[web_design_]

Getting links to ur site is back link
These are good for improving ranking

[jayceehailey]

Backlink is linking a site with another site. Backlinks (or back-link) are of inbound links to your site or web page

[jaydenrock86]

Backlink is a URL that directs to your website from other and search engine count it as a vote for PR.

[abraham baldwin]

Backlinks are loosely defined as hypertext links pointing towards a particular domain name. According to Björneborn and Ingwersen, backlinks may also be described (in more 'geeky' terms) as any link that is received from one web node from another web node. A web node may be a top level domain name, website, directory or web page.

[lhinping]

Is there any good tools that actually check backlink other than Google Webmaster tools

[shakir]

BL -Other sites contains your own site URL (without nofollow tag)

[Petergriffin]

Backlink is a link that may give weigh to your site

[jhoncamron799]

Back link was adopted to help increase the page rank. Basically back links are the links which are in other sites that links to your site.
An example is here :
<a href="your" website url>Your keywords here</a>

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[royal]

A link which is listed on any site and pointing to your site is called inbound link or backlink to your site.

[shanewaatson]

back links are the link which get you to the site. these links are created by doing seo for your site,

[web_design_]

Backlink is a URL that directs to your website from other and search engine count it as a vote for PR

[lingoway]

Whenever your site is pointed using some text,or by URL. This is termed as a backlink for you.