what is back linking? and what are the best websites to learn it?

[Tommy]

Hi,

Backlinks are links on other websites that direct traffic back to your site. It is used for 2 purposes. SEO and Traffic generation.

For SEO, backlinks are like recommendations to search engines. Every backlink is a recommendation another website gives you. LIke recommendations, there are good backlinks from authority sites and bad backlinks from bad and spammy sites. Search Engines see that you have a lot of good backlinks (recommendations) means your site is trust worthy and informative which might help you rank higher on the search result page when someone searches for a keyword related to your website.

For Traffic Generation, if there are backlinks on other websites, when visitiors of those websites click on the link, they will be redirected to your page. Thus, increase your traffic and more awareness of your website for those who never heard of you before.

There are a lot of sites to learn about backlinks. Such as Searchenginewatch.com, seomoz.org and etc.