What is backlink in SEO?

[John9927]

Those links which targeted to our website from other websites are called backlinks. You can follow many activities of Search Engine Optimization to generate backlinks for your website. There are two types of backlinks first one is no-follow backlinks which contains no-follow attribute. These links have no effect on your website generally social media sites like Facebook and others. There are few article submission sites where you can get do-follow backlinks for your website, Do-follow Backlinks are those through which Google Bot can follow that link and reach to your website.

[arun.vijayjo]

sharing our websites on high page rank and high traffic website and then getting linkjuice from authority websites is called backlink

[Saravanan28]

Backlinks are links on one website that, when clicked, take the user to another site. For example: this is a link, click here, Example, example.com, http://www.example.com. Backlinks can be in the form of an image as well as text. If a link is an image, the anchor link text is the alt tag of the image.

[sakijain.jain]

Backlinks are important for a website to generate traffic. backlinking is of 2 types :
1 Internal backlinking
2 External backlinking
Internal is done when you link your website to someone else's website whereas, external linking means linking which takes place from both sides.