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Backlink

From the point of view of a given web resource (referent), a backlink is a hyperlink on another web resource (the referrer) that points to the referent. A web resource may be (for example) 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…

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Backlinks and search engines

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Backlink

Nodes34
Edges33
Triples13
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.058824
Components1

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Backlink

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related to Backlinks and search engines · 11
Backlink → Blog, Google, Google's, In January, January, Knowledge, PageRank, Penguin, Search, SEO, The
is a · 2
Backlink → hyperlink on another web resource, reference comparable to a citation

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Important terminology

backlinks web search page link google engine resource pagerank citation website given links engines hyperlink rankings topic number blog increase

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Backlinkis ahyperlink on another web resource0.90text
Backlinkis areference comparable to a citation0.90text
Backlinkrelated to Backlinks and search enginesSearch0.60section
Backlinkrelated to Backlinks and search enginesGoogle's0.60section
Backlinkrelated to Backlinks and search enginesPageRank0.60section
Backlinkrelated to Backlinks and search enginesJanuary0.60section
Backlinkrelated to Backlinks and search enginesGoogle0.60section
Backlinkrelated to Backlinks and search enginesKnowledge0.60section
Backlinkrelated to Backlinks and search enginesSEO0.60section
Backlinkrelated to Backlinks and search enginesIn January0.60section
Backlinkrelated to Backlinks and search enginesPenguin0.60section
Backlinkrelated to Backlinks and search enginesThe0.60section

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