Importance of Backlinks

[rosemarschall09]

Backlinks have become so important to the scope of Search Engine Optimization, that they have become some of the main building blocks to good SEO. Backlinks are links that are directed towards your website. Also knows as Inbound links (IBL's). The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website. Backlinks are important for SEO because some search engines, especially Google, will give more credit to websites that have a good number of quality backlinks, and consider those websites more relevant than others in their results pages for a search query.

Building quality backlinks is extremely important to Search Engine Optimization, and because of their importance, it should be very high on your priority list in your SEO efforts.webconfs.com/importance-of-backlinks-article-5.php

[angelinalove]

Thats very true. Backlinks are very important. Backlinks are incoming links to a website. Quality backlinks can give you good ranking in SE. Building backlinks is the most useful way nowadays for improving the website in SERPs.

[shakir]

Me too have the same opinion about BL. But has to maintain the quality and relevancy

[Ka-canor]

Backlinks is one of the most important to get on top of major search engine,...Quality link is more effective than quantity.

[sharon.gmc]

I have a question. What is good quality link? Is there such as thing as bad link?

[mdamin76]

Backlinks is an SERP factor. Relevant backlinks gives more value to SERP.

[barsha]

Yes, google wants more quality backlinks for your website.

[rayter]

I second the motion, backlinks are very important. Does anyone here knows how google weighs or classifies them as quality or not?

[Puneet Thakkar]

Backlinks is an SERP factor. Relevant backlinks gives more value to SERP.

totally agree with u frd ...

[ckeener]

Agree with most of you that relevant backlinks gives more value . A search engine considers the content of the sites to determine the quality of a link. When inbound links to your site come from other sites, and those sites have content related to your site, these inbound links are considered more relevant to your site. If inbound links are found on sites with unrelated content, they are considered less relevant. The higher the relevance of inbound links, the greater their quality.

[illinois]

well said. Backlinks will always be valueable. They just might become harder to get.

[Jonhost]

Backlinks will give you more search engine traffic which increases your web presence and PR.

[proxyjacob]

Search engines have their own algorithms in counting backlinks. Google only calculates outbound links if these links are a "do-follow" type, and that makes it different from Yahoo and MSN. They don't have these kinds of metrics. They get all the links pointing to your site, whether they're no-follow or do-follow. With both of these search engines, the quality of the links don't matter.

[probafix]

Backlinks are very important for getting traffic and PR.Quality backlinks gives you quality traffic.

[linda22bar]

yes but it also takes time, it can take you even 1 year to build enough links to be on 1st result