Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. In the search engine optimization (SEO) world, the number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (though other measures, such as PageRank, are likely to be more important. Our Backlinks Checker Tool will enable you to check the number of links which are pointing to your website or web pages. The Backlinks checker tool which check Google backlinks, Yahoo backlinks, Altavista backlinks & Alltheweb backlinks. The backlinks checker is a great tool to check the incoming links to your website.
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. Backlinks are also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.
In some cases search engines use the number of backlinks that a website has as one of the most important factors for determining that website's search engine ranking. Google describes their PageRank system; Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. Understanding of this type of search engine rankings has fueled a some of the SEO industry commonly termed linkspam, where a company tries to place as many inbound links as possible to their site irrespective of the context of the originating site.