As the popular saying goes, “No man is an island.” The same goes true for web pages too- no page on the internet exists in isolation. It has to be linked up from somewhere for people to get to it. This is the reason why search engines use backlinks as a measure of a site’s popularity and general trustworthiness.
Backlinks – What Are They?
Backlinks, simply put, are links that point “back” to a webpage or website that you own. Say, for example, you have an article that teaches people an easy recipe for kimchi. Someone on Twitter with an affinity for Korean food found your article interesting, so they then shared your kimchi recipe to their followers by tweeting a link to it on their feed. That link is what you would call a backlink to your page. It redirects a user from one website to another.
Why are Backlinks Important?
Backlinks were the main driving force behind Google’s original search algorithm called PageRank. There have been many changes since then, but still, they still remain a key search engine ranking factor that would ultimately determine a site’s placement on Google’s search engine ranking pages (SERPs).
Consider a backlink as similar to a public vote of confidence from other people and websites. If somebody considers your page relevant and trustworthy enough, then they would “vote” for your page by placing a link to it on their own posts and pages.
The more high quality backlinks that you have, the better. Search engines like Google, as we’ve mentioned...
Read Full Story: https://tdpelmedia.com/what-are-quality-backlinks-and-why-it-is-the-most-important-part-of-seo
Your content is great. However, if any of the content contained herein violates any rights of yours, including those of copyright, please contact us immediately by e-mail at media[@]kissrpr.com.
