Posts Tagged 'backlinks'

A backlink is any kind of link from an outside website back to your own. Backlinks to your site can exist on review sites, general directories, blogs, or even social networking sites. In the early days of the internet, this was the only way users could find your content, and so they were tremendously valuable.

Now that search engines direct so much of the total internet traffic, backlinks have taken on a secondary importance. Search engines like Google and Bing make ...