Backlinks - Good or Bad?

A backlink is a link placed on a website, other than yours, that can bring you views and visitors. Imagine that you're a user visiting a webpage and you're seeing an ad or a direct link to another site. By clicking on it, you'll bring the targeted site owner some revenues or only a view that can be very important in his periodical reports.
Being so important, backlinking is more and more popular, becoming one of the most used SEO techniques in the whole world.


If your website is very popular over the internet, it is very possible that some web developers have already attached links to your page. So, I'm sure you want to know the correct number of your backlinks. All you need to do is to visit Yahoo! Site Explorer, type your website address and press Explore URL.

Then, you can view all the websites that contain links to your webpage, Site Explorer being "a tool that lets you access the information we have about a site's online presence. You can see which sites and subpages are indexed by Yahoo! Search, track sites that link into webpage, and view the most popular pages from any site" as Yahoo! sustains.

For example, if you want to search for www.softpedia.com, you'll get 1,363,294 results, Softpedia being one of the most popular websites on the Internet.