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Keyword rankings involves onsite and offsite improvements to your search engine marketing campaign. Many bloggers struggle to know how to create backlinks to their blogs to boost their search engine rankings.

So it would only be fair to define a backlinks:

Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. Inbound links were originally important (prior to the emergence of search engines) as a primary means of web navigation; today their significance lies in search engine optimization (SEO). The number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (for example, this is used by Google to determine the PageRank of a webpage). Outside of SEO, the backlinks of a webpage may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.

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.^[1] Backlinks are also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlink

Methods of website linking

First it is important to understand the different types of backlinks. Types of backlinks:

1. reciprocal link is a mutual link between two websites.
2. resource links are one-wa links you obtain from Press Releases or Articles.
3. Forum signature links are obtain from create an account on a forum and creating a post.
4. blog comments are links that are placed at the bottom of a blog post
5. directory links are list of links to websites that are sorted into categories.
6. interlinks are links on your website that link to internal pages.

The reason for all of these backlinks to your website boils down to keyword ranking and PageRank.

Topics to cover next: seo, link building, where to find free backlinks, how to use page rank, where are you inbound links coming from, what is an anchor text, have you considered outsourcing to a link building services like Taurad?