It that a trick questions? You have back links in your forum profile so you must know the meaning right?
Actually aback links are the links, which are alleged the entering links (IBLs) or the entering links. The greater the amount of aback links is the greater the acceptance of your website. It artlessly indicates the acceptance and accent of your website. Aback links are important for SEO because some seek engines, abnormally Google, will accord added acclaim to websites that accept a acceptable amount of superior aback links, and accede those websites added accordant than others in their after-effects pages for a seek query.
Backlinks were important as a primary means of web navigation. The number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page. Outside of SEO, the backlinks of a webpage may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.
I think you've already put anchor texts in your post, it means you are aware of what is the purpose of backlinks!!
Hey.... Link building is very important part of good SEO as well as it is very beneficial ..... Here i am mentioning some main benefits of link building. 1 No need to exchange links 2 Keyword targeting 3 Branding 4 Gain authority status 5 Increase search engine rankings 6 Boost web traffic 7 Receive return visitors
So,so..The most important thing in the eyes of search engines are quality backlinks.For example:First case:you have 5000 backlinks from PR0 website.Second case:you have 10 backlinks from PR5 website.We should think that the second would get better page rank.
In simple words, backlinks are used to generate traffic and more importantly to build the reputation in eye of search engine.
Backlinks are basically "votes" for your site, from other sites. That's how Google sees it. The more of them you have, and the higher page rank and quality, the better. Hope that helps