BackLinks

Author: Graham

Backlinks

Learn The Importance of Backlinks

If you have ever visited an Internet Marketing forum such as the acclaimed Warrior Forum, you will undoubtedly have seen a multitude of topics centered around backlinks.

What are backlinks?

Basically, backlinks are what every Internet Marketer strives to get to their website. A backlink is a link to your website from another website and when search engines such as Google see these backlinks they recognise that your website is offering good enough content for other websites to to link to yours and so reward you with recognition in the form of page ranking in their search engines. The more more backlinks you have, the higher ranking you will achieve.

There are varying degrees of strength of backlinks in as much as if you get a backlink from a website which has a page rank of pr4 for example, it will be a much stronger link than one coming from a pr1 site. So it is important to get as many high pr backlinks as possible.

Similarly, a one way link, ie a link from another website to yours without a link from your website to theirs, has more strength than a reciprocal link.

There are numerous ways in which you get backlinks, the most common of which is article marketing where you leave a link to your website in your resource box or signature file. If a publisher likes your article and publishes it on their website or blog, you will get a backlink.

Similarly, blog commenting (commenting on other blogs) and forum posting will generate backlinks.

If article marketing etc. is something you feel you would struggle with, then their are other ways to generate backlinks, one of which I personally use and absolutely swear by.