Tag Archives: How to Get Backlinks

Backlinks are one way links that originate outside of your website and point directly to specific content on a webpage within your website.  Backlinks are the most important factors in achieving competitively high rankings on the search engines for the keyword phrases you wish to target.  They are best understood as “votes” for your website especially when they are not purchased, they are naturally occurring and they are highly relevant and targeted.  Backlinks also affect your Google PageRank.  Google PageRank is an important factor used by Google to further determine the strength of each and every webpage and is a key part of the algorithm Google uses to distinguish between web pages for their Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs).  So, therefore, this writing is to review and expand upon exactly how to get backlinks to successfully compete online.