What is a back link?

Sorry if i really sound like a noob, but I would like traffic to my site and I hear people talking about back links.

 

A back link is a link to your website. It can be a post on a blog or a link on a site. You can get back links with your url in signatures of forums like this one and others that allow them.

 

A link back

 

A backlink is a link to your site that appears on someone else's website.

When site A puts up a link to site B then Site B has a backlink. Backlinks help to increase PR, SERPs and most importantly traffic.

When you work on getting backlinks remember that the more relevant the site is to your own the more value the backlink will have for all three factors listed above.

 

so it's basically a link from another site to mine instead of a direct one?

 

Basically it's a link from another site linking to your own site. The more back links, the better the page rank ;D

 

What do you mean by direct?

 

like actually typing it in on the browser

 

Yes, it's not direct, it's a link from another site to yours.

 

Anytime that a link to your website appears on another website it is a backlink.

There are two types of backlinks

one way and reciprocal. A one way is when the site 'points' to you but you do not link back to them. A reciprocal (or exchange) is when you both link to each other. Both these are backlinks but the reciprocal type has much less value in terms of PR but could have great value in traffic.

 

how do you check your back links?

 

Thanks for the great simple explanation of a back link.

 

You can run your site through a checker like dnscoop

gives site value and quality of links to and from your sites.

 

type link:your url in the search box

 

U can check your site backlink in http://www.timlua.com

Demo check:

 

URL http://schoolislame.com
Google PR 0
Alexa Rank 0
Average BL 3
lol wow

URL http://dumpplay.com
Google PR 0
Alexa Rank 315,109
Average BL 5

URL http://yourpremiums.com
Google PR 0
Alexa Rank 583,008
Average BL 9


Wow I would say I can do better lol

 

What is a good number of backlinks to have?

 

Well, there isin't a correct answer for that, the more backlinks the better, stronger web site you get.

Meti

 

You can define back link as a incoming link to a web site.
In basic terminology is any link receive by a web node (web page) from another web node.
As watchOut said is an indicator of the importance of your website.

 

A backlink is a hyperlink given to a particular site i.e the site in which your are posting blogs etc eg .......... if i am writting a blog on myspace i should give my particular website links