what are backlinks?

[jpratt]

Hi.

Can someone provide me insight on what backlinks are?
How to get back links through web directories to my companys website. What will happen, when I am searching for the company or the business we are operating in?
Will i find our website or the web directory site?

[johnroberson]

Building Quality backlinks is one of the most important factors in Search Engine Optimization, Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page.Backlinks enable you to other pages on the web that link to your posts.

[acruz]

A backlink is a link to your site posted on another website so people visiting that website can click on the backlink and be sent directly to your site.
You can't live in SEO without having quality backlinks building.
If the websites you chose to promote get a good number of quality backlinks, backlinks from established high quality sites that have a high page rank, you can gain more credit for your website on search engines such as Google.

[miclebarbossa]

There is really only one way we can use off-page techniques to rank our site higher and that is to encourage back links.

[tochandresh]

all the Off page optimization is offers back links for your website mean where you creating a hyper links for your website that hyper links is considers as back links for your website.