Backlinks or Inbound links are links that point towards your site. Links can be both internal and external. When you create a link to another page on the same blog/website, the same is an internal link. External links are links on other websites that point towards your site. In this article we will concentrate our attention only on external link building techniques. Why are people so interested in building links? Links are an important measure of a blog/website’s popularity on the web. Search engines generally assign value, to a site, based on the number, quality and relevancy of links pointing towards the site. Link building is thus a search engine optimisation (SEO) technique helping a website achieve higher search engine rankings. The right way of building links There are many ways of doing this. 1. Create compelling content Compelling content is con...