How do backlinks affect my rankings?

[stevedswtpl]

If the backlinks are good then your site's ranking will be improve, if the backlinks are bad then site will be down. So getting good backlinks is more important.

[surenot]

In fact backlinks or off-page optimization is what determines your rankings

[superkevin]

Just Backlinks affect your ranking, if your web have top pr backlinks so your web will going to take high pr in just one month.

[mex]

back links are very effective in improving your page rank---but not just back links,quality back links--the one you get from high authority websites can have a huge effect on your website/webpage.Make sure the back links you get is usually from your niche because Google uses it to determine relevancy.so to "pull" your website from the depth of SERPs get quality back links!

[saynotodiy]

they have big effects !!! try and get on as many high rank websites as possible