There are several factors that determine the value of a backlink.

Another important factor is the anchor text of the backlink.

If a search engine provides a backlink for a resource, one may assume that the resource is in the surface Web.

A backlink from a Web directory.

A backlink represents a favorable 'editorial vote' for the receiving webpage from another granting webpage.

Link bidding is a form of Internet marketing where a website owner bids on other websites to post a backlink to his/her website.

With Backlink, anyone can post criticisms about any other Web sponsor's information or products, and browsers can now conveniently obtain the other side of the story.

There should be a direct link from the homepage banner (Discover the BBC Homepage) with a backlink to the original blog.

If he could devise a method to count and qualify each backlink on the Web, as Page puts it 'the Web would become a more valuable place'."

In particular, it was useful for finding information on backlinks pointing to a given webpage or domain because YSE offered full, timely backlink reports for any site.

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.

The process of building links should not be confused with being listed on link farms, as the latter requires reciprocal return links, which often renders the overall backlink advantage useless.

Even if a backlink does exist, there is no way to determine if the resource providing the link is itself in the surface Web without crawling all of the Web.

In addition to providing backlinks, Boumaaza pledged to film a personal video (individual video responses) for each of his fans who subscribed and provided a backlink to Boumaaza's channel.

On playing out the material, the audio and video signals are usually transported from the playout area to the network via a studio/transmitter link (STL), which may be fibre backlink, microwave or satellite uplink.

If both sites have content geared toward the keyword topic, the backlink is considered relevant and believed to have strong influence on the search engine rankings of the webpage granted the backlink.