How important are backlinks for the seo?

[toffee]

Hi,

I'm new in the seo field.

I heard about backlinks and want know if they are important and if so, how to build them?

Thanks

[Seolight]

Extremely important.
Take a look at this article on off-page optimisation
it tells you how to build backlinks

[Robdale]

Everyone says that, backlinks are important to gain high PR. but, i don't think its necessary, if you have fresh and quality content with rich keywords then its not hard to achieve PR for your site. Backlinks can be helpful to make your site visible to users and search engine robots.

[surreypcsupport]

Here is some great info about the importance of various SEO factors. I have highlighted the backlink anchor text part. As you will see, most optimisers believe backlink anchor text to be of exceptional importance.

SEOmoz | Google Search Engine Ranking Factors

[joeljonathan]

The more competitive the market is you are targeting then the more important backlinks become.

[toffee]

Thanks to all for the tips and opinion.

Special thanks to Seolight for the great article.

[YooHee]

i think it is one of the most important part of SEO because, a lot of backlinks to your site will be increase in page ranking.... and also can make your site searchable on search engines

[Arleigh]

Backlinks are important factors in SEO that can help increase your site's link popularity and its traffic. Search engines give more value on the relevancy of backlinks, so it's essential to build links from relevant sites or related to your site's niche.

And with proper targeting of your selected keywords when doing link building, this can also help increase your keyword rankings in search engine result page (serp) thus may lead to getting high organic traffic of your site.

[shruchi nagar]

Backlinks are very important for SEO. they are helpful in increasing traffic as well as Page rank of the site.

[stanneon]

backlinks are one of the most important in optimizing a site... they increase your PR and SERP's at the same way... But you must keep in mind that quality backlinks are more valuable in Google(if your focusing only on it)...