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Everything about Backlink

Link from another website (referrer) to that web resource (referent)

From the point of view of a given web resource (referent), a backlink is a hyperlink on another web resource that points to the referent. A web resource may be a website, web page, or web directory. Some other words for backlink are incoming link, inbound link, inlink, inward link, and citation. The "back" in "backlink" is to distinguish it from the types of hyperlink that are contained within the given web resource, which are either internal links or outbound links. The web resource links out with outbound links and other web resources link back to it with backlinks. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: BacklinkA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Dashboard Monitoring Keamanan Domain Berbasis Web untuk Deteksi Backlink Berbahaya Menggunakan Integrasi Data SemrushInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: The Beginner’s Guide to SEO and BacklinksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Sub-pm${{\sqrt{{\rm Hz}}^{-1}}}$ non-reciprocal noise in the LISA backlink fiberCited 23 times
  5. Go sideways: Link buildingA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Competitor backlinkingA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun A hyperlink to a webpage from an external website.

Noun A reference to an object on another server, allowing it to be updated periodically.

Noun A link to another page that links to the current one, often in an automatically assembled list of links to all other such pages, allowing for bidirectional navigation.

Verb To link in this fashion.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. Backlinks and search engines

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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