also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links, are incoming links to a website or web page. In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node.[1]
From: Wikipedia.com
Let’s look at http://www.Alexa.com which is a site that ranks the top websites in the World Let’s see how many backlinks these sites have we’ll start with backlinks for facebook.com it is the second highest ranked website and has over 6,000,000 backlinks to it.
By the way check out the following about facebook too. Wouldn’t you love to have these numbers for your site or blog:
Bounce rate 34.10%
Number of pages visited 11.71
Time on site 18.30
Let’s look at the number one site in the World YouTube:
Bounce rate 41.80
Daily Page views 5.28
Time on site 14.45 minutes
YouTube is now #3 Who is number one now? Google.com replaced facebook at the time of this writing. The Internet is always changing.
My business grows with backlinks every day. So can yours read on…
Sowhat is a backlink? Backlinks are the key to your website gaining value and driving quality traffic to your offers.
Backlinks are links out of your site to another site with more authority. They can also be inward to another one of your pages to give your reader a chance to stay on your blog longer and gain more value.
This will allow the time spent by your readers on your blog to grow. That is good, right? If you want to get your bounce rate down, and you do, make sure that the backlinks open in another window.
This way your readers stay on your site according to those algorithms or “spiders.”
While it may not seem like a good idea to take someone away from your site or page, remember that search “spiders” or search engine robots, which are really mathematical algorithms that search engines use to scan the code on the Internet, keeps track of the authority of the sites you send your readers to.
What is A backlink? It is like a samurai warrior to your competition.
The language that is on that page is the Internet. Right click your mouse and scroll down to where it says view source. That code is what the “spiders” crawl. I can not explian how that works yet. I am always learning and that is an advanced topic for a later time.
Welcome down “the rabbit hole” Alice…This is about to get really fun, when you figure it out and I’ll help you, by pointing you in the right direction to million dollar earners and “their secrets”… secrets for how they make their millions online.
That code you saw when you right clicked your mouse and scrolled down to “view source” makes up the Internet, those robots read links.
If your links are leading to a high authority website, Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines see that as favorable and rank your content as valuable. Later in this blog you will find a wonderful blog on SEO and backlinking.
The more back links you get the right way, the more traffic you will see coming to your blog or website in google Analytics.
It is important that you get traffic to your website that has your offer on it:
1) You offer should be on it in at least three places to increase the probability that someone that wants what you are selling will pull out their credit or debit card and buy from you.
There are two ways to drive traffic to your website:
1) capture page(which acts like a website and is used for capturing leads) or blog which acts like a website, but is on someone else’s platform
2) blog which acts like a website but is on someone else’s platform
Here is the marketing tactic that I have seen results with recently, commenting on other people’s blogs. In your comment, if they are a “dofollow” blog( again that code stuff) instead of a “nofollow” blog they will ask for three things:
1) Your Name – Always type your real name. People will search for you in Google and you want to be on page 1 at the top three places in natural search(as opposed to paid ads at the top and sides)
2) Your email address – in case the owner of the blog wants to reach you.
3) Your website link -There is the backlink and your blog just gained in value on the Internet if it is a good backlink to an authority site.
Conclusion
Backlinks can be obtained a number of ways. They are the key to driving traffic to your offers. You now have the keys to this wonderful World of Internet Marketing.
Good Luck…You still have to do a ton of work to build your online empire, but backlinking strategy is a big part of it. It is not the only part. You still have to learn how to convert those people that are driven to your offer. Stay tuned to that in a future post.
Hey Tom thanks for the great information ! I need to do more research on this subject and I will start with the websites you offered in your post. Thank you again for the info!!
It’s actually a great and useful piece of info.I’m happy that you just shared this useful info with us. Please stay us informed like this. Thank you for sharing.
This is a fantastic post for anyone to get more information on what are backlinks! Thanks Tom!!!
Thank You Danny glad you liked it.
Powerfully important information. I am going to save this and come back to it. I use blogging, capture page, and pinging sites to help get back links.
Thank You I am glad you liked it!
Hey Tom thanks for the great information ! I need to do more research on this subject and I will start with the websites you offered in your post. Thank you again for the info!!
My Pleasure Jilene. You are very welcome.
Looks like i will be looking into this backlinking thing a bit more,,,,,,Thanks Tom….
Glad to hear it Garry. It is like finding the Holy Grail
Great post Tom, lots of value, I will be going back to reread, Thanks for sharing.
Thank You Linda.
Hi,
Great post, I just shared this with my office mates, brilliantly explained.
Thanks again Ravi
It’s actually a great and useful piece of info.I’m happy that you just shared this useful info with us. Please stay us informed like this. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you liked it Ravi. Thanks for the comment!
Thanks for that lesson on backlinking Tom. I really learned a lot from that. Great value.
Thank You Janet
Hey Tom, thanks for educating me on backlinks! I learned a few new tricks! 🙂
You are very welcome Chris.
Thanks Tom, you really made it very clear. I do know what backlinks are now I know even more.
Glad I could help Marko!
Thanks for Sharing this awesome post about Backlinking Tom really you made me learn something new here. Thank you!
It is a real honor to hear you say that Omkar. I loved your post on Instagram! It was well researched.