Baqckinks are very important to the visual side of your web site meaning you need them! start blogging and stumbling your articles
Backlinks is a link pointing to your site, probably it is similar to two way links and sometimes it is called the Inbound link, but there are many types of links where you can get baklinks. one-way link, two-way link, reciprocal and three waynd four way link. it is important for to get traffic and have a good rankings.
is a signature on a major blog forum considered a backlink? or a comment with your website on DP forums considered a backlink? Stuff like that confuses me still cause im still new in the game.
seebeyond not neccassary the blog will set its self up when post daily when you add a post the blog creates a back page to the web site that's in side the post. Now soon you will see that your page rank will increase. for now you can get a back link checker to see if you have any back links follow this algo and you will be okay" try this one
A sig is not a back link it is a sig line period. all you need to do is put your domain inside this back link checker tool and it will look for back links for you thats it! it is that simple.
Thanks aaron for all your info its been very helpful in analyzing my competitors with that website checker. Much love =]