backlink is good in generate page rank not traffic. Unless your backlinks are from high traffic site. Well, can't really say that it can't generate traffic at all. At least it does expose your site to the rest.
Backlinks can be good for organic traffic just make sure you don't use "nofollow" sites to link to as the backlink won't count
You can develop your back links by doing article submission, social bookmarking and also press release. It will be useful for getting more traffic. Just use do follow directories.
From Directory Submission and Article Submission you got good back links and for traffic you can use social networking websites.
1. How to develop backlinks: - Commenting on Blogs - Social Bookmarking Systems - Article Submission - etc. (PS: if you search for it you will find some very suitable answers!). 2. Do backlinks generate traffic? Depends. If you have a backlink from a niche releveant site you will def. get huge amounts of traffic, but from a backlink via commenting you wont get huge amounts of traffic.
Yeah backlinks are good to generate traffic, especially backlinks from high PR sites. Just submit your site to high PR directories to increase backlinks..
hmm,I'm building profile backlinks for my new blog and I see that there are about 7 visitors to my site
Backlinks are very important in getting your site ranked by the search engines for your target keyword. With quality backlinks, your site can be ranked in the top of the results and hopefully in page 1. When your site is ranked in the 1st page. You then have a better chance of getting organic traffic. Backlinking also helps your site found by other people bowsing the internet you may come across you links. That's another sourch of traffic. There are many kinds of backlinks you can get. Exmaples are blog comments, article submissions, web2.0, blog posts, video sites, etc. High PR backlinks are important and so is dofollow links. But don't get too fixated on that. Do as much backlinking as you could. A mix of dofollow and nofollow plus high and low pr links is more natural looking for the serach engines. Also try to keep in mind link diversity and link velocity.
According to Jerry West 88% of your keyword rankings are due to your backlinks. Backlinks from high PR pages is of course what you want, but when you're starting out you probably don't have the means to get such links. In this case it's best to begin small. Try to rank for about 5 keywords with low competition. You can use a tool like Market Samurai to see if the top websites have attempted to optimize their sites by creating backlinks with the keyword as the anchor text.