What is a backlink?

[gloriathomasf90]

What is a backlink?

[rachelhalld90]

A backlink is a link created when one website links to another. Backlinks are also called "inbound links" or "incoming links."

[tbsind]

The incoming links to your website or webpages are called "backlinks." When you go to create backlinks, you should build backlinks to your niche.

[taxiongo]

Backlinks are links from a page on one website to another. If someone links to your site, then you have a backlink from them. If you link to another website, then they have a backlink from you.

[sekar]

Backlink is a incoming links , which is getting link from other websites.

[soleseriouss]

the real example is this activity, by which you're getting links to your website...

[aasthabeauty]

In SEO, a backlink is an inbound link to your website. Backlinks are important because they are a vote of confidence from other websites. The more backlinks you have, the higher your website will rank in search engine results pages (SERPs). A backlink is created when one website links to another. The linking website is called the referring site, and the linked-to website is called the destination site.

[1awilliam0]

1. Rankings
Search engines like Google see backlinks as votes of confidence. Generally speaking, the more votes your web pages have, the more likely they are to rank for relevant search queries.

How do we know? We’ve studied link-based ranking factors on a few occasions and always find the same thing: the number of backlinks from unique websites (referring domains) correlates strongly with organic search traffic.
2. Discoverability
Search engines find new content by revisiting pages they already know about to check for new links.

Because search engines revisit popular pages more often than unpopular ones, they may discover your content faster if you get backlinks from popular pages.