What are backlinks? - Do they help with SEO?

robiulhasan · Post by **robiulhasan** » Mon Jan 20, 2025 4:52 am

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How to increase the number of inbound links?
Beware of Black Hat SEO
3 useful tools to check your site's backlink status
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What are backlinks? - Do they help with SEO?
An inbound link is a link from an external site to a page on your own website
. For example, if a link to your website's top page is posted on someone else's blog post, this sales marketing directors managers mailing leads is called an inbound link.

Until a few years ago, the amount of inbound links had a big impact on SEO.
However, as malicious methods of acquiring a large number of inbound links from spam sites to improve rankings began to emerge, Google updated its search engine algorithm in 2011, and the quality of content became the key to site evaluation.

Quality backlinks work!