backlink

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: backlinks

A backlink is a link from another site pointing at yours. Build backlinks, a quality backlink, count the backlinks.

Search engines treat them as votes, which is why an entire industry exists to manufacture them and why search engines spend as much effort detecting the fakes. A backlink from a trusted site is worth hundreds from nowhere.

Definitions of backlink

1nounbacklinkA link from another site pointing at yours.C1
“Getting a backlink from a popular news site sent thousands of visitors to her blog.”

backlink is a link.

Where it comes from

Back plus link, coined in web usage for a link pointing back towards a page.

From back + link.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Marketing & Advertising

Practise this word

backlink in the wild

From the point of view of a given web resource (referent), a backlink is a hyperlink on another web resource (the referrer) that points to the referent.
Backlink
Some other words for backlink are incoming link, inbound link, inlink, inward link, and citation.
Backlink
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.
Yahoo Site Explorer
After merging with Bing Webmaster Tools, the service only offers full backlink reports to sites owned by the webmaster.
Yahoo Site Explorer
Competitor backlinking is a search engine optimization strategy that involves analyzing the backlinks of competing websites within a vertical search.
Competitor backlinking

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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