Building Backlinks For SEO: Backlinks-101

Perhaps you may or may not know what a backlink is?  For those whom fall in the latter category this page will precisely articulate the nature of  backlinks, as well as the purpose and practical use of backlinks.  For those of you whom are already seasoned in the nature of backlinks, you may elect to browse further down this page or view other pages and sub-pages as denoted in the “pages” sidebar widget.  Either way, seasoned webmaster or novice, there is a lot of information contained on this page worth browsing…

What Is A Backlink?

A backlink is a hypertext link on somebody’s website or blog that leads to your website or blog when it is clicked on. (See: Wikipedia Definition) Essentially the link itself is the URL (Universal Resource Locator) of your website and basically looks like either “http://(site name).com/” or “http://www.(site name).com/”.  The actual link text itself may look like either of the two preceding examples, or the text may consist of words and phrases otherwise known as anchor text.  An example of anchor text for a fishing tackle backlink may be “fishing lures”, while the underlying URL itself may be http://bestfishingtackle.com/.  When a backlink is made in this matter it is known as an anchored backlink or keyword anchored backlink.
If you are working on gaining some popularity or ranking in the search engines for your website or blog, it is extremely important to gain a large number of backlinks that are attained from other reputable sites. Backlinks are how you get known on the Internet, and if a lot of other sites provide a link to your site, a natural increase in traffic to your website pages will occur.

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