Hi Madsam -
A backlink is a link back to your website from another - so you may have come accross a number of these without realizing what the seo benefits are -
A backlink will normally be text which is clickable and once clicked it will take you to the website - For users this is very helpful as if you quote a website then you can leave a link which the user only needs to click instead of typing it out in the address bar -
for search engines - If a website holds your backlink then search engines will look at it as if the website is voting or vouching for your site - so the more backlinks you create is essentially telling the search engines that many sites are voting for your site - Now backlinks can be created to any url so be it a blog url or a private site it will act in the same way.
Honestly there is alot to discuss on backlinks including anchor text so I would suggest you look it up on google - to get you started you can read an article on my own blog - What are backlinks | how to get backlinks to increase rankings | SEO Blog it is a little old as it was written in 2009 but it should get you going
Bookmarking on the other hand is a form of backlinking which will provide you with seo benefits but you will also get targeted traffic from people searching within the bookmark sites - Bookmarking is always done differently and the best way to find out how to bookmark is by actually going to the bookmark website - sign up and follow the instructions -
Honestly its easy - you just need to put what you learn into practice - one of the biggest downfall for many
Last edited by GREMLIN; 08-17-2010 at 12:08 PM.
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