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title: "What are backlinks?"  
description: "What are backlinks?"  
author: "Anubhav Sharma"  
published: 2026-02-17  
updated: 2026-04-29  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/116337/what-are-backlinks  
category: "seo"  
tags: ["seo"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What are backlinks?

## Answers

### Answer by Anubhav Sharma

Backlinks are links from one website to another.

In [SEO](https://www.mindstick.com/services/search-engine-optimization) ([Search Engine Optimization](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12640/is-search-engine-optimization-a-science)), a backlink is when another site links to [your website](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23227/how-to-plan-your-website-redesign-for-success). [Search engines](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162030/how-do-search-engines-rank-websites) like Google see these links as a signal of trust and authority.

**In short:**\
Backlinks = “votes of [confidence](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/113264/speak-up-speak-out-building-confidence-in-spoken-english)” from other websites that can help [improve your](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12252/simple-ways-to-improve-your-business-sales) site’s [ranking in search](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/99289/what-is-crawling-indexing-and-ranking-in-search-engine-optimization) results.


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