The word back link is used to define an incoming link from one website to another. A link on website A points to website B, and website B refers to it as a back link. Backlinks are used in search engine optimization (SEO) as a way of determining the popularity of a web page. If a large number of websites link to a page, that affects the page’s ranking in search results.
Websites may use various SEO techniques to increase the number of backlinks pointing to their website. Some methods, such as link baiting, require quite a bit of planning to be successful. Some websites accidentally get involved in link baiting, for example, websites that are the first with a piece of breaking news about a well-known celebrity. When a link bait happens, many other websites link to the baiting website because it contains information of great interest to a huge number of people.
Having said that, some forms of link baiting are objected to by Google algorithms and are not successful at increasing the ranking of web pages involved. So what kinds of back links DOES Google like? It prefers “quality back links”.
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