Back links are simply links back to your site. They play a crucial part of off-site SEO,

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How do you create back links?

If you use a signature at your own Forum, and on other Forums, and your sig contains your forum's address, is that considered a back link?

I take it the more back links you've got, the better your page rank will be. Is that correct?

yep correct, and you can add your forum to all the direcotries you can find on the net for more links showing the way to robots

and thern also be patient pageranks are not updated each day, they are several times in the year but Google doesn't really tell when, it is always fun to find out when

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Okay,

Submitting my forum to directories is one way I can get back links then, thanks. How else can I do it? Is there a way I can tell how many back links OzChess currently has?

AO

get yourself a google webmaster account, add your site and after some days you will get a ton of information there regarding how Google sees your site, the account is free

then in google type backlink check, you'll get several hundred sites allowing you to do so.

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I tried that and they want me to paste some code in my header but don't give me clear instructions on how to do that. I think the code is for normal html pages and not VBulletin forums.

AO

no need to put code in your site for this kind of tracking

btw reply your pm and Brandon will up your account , you'll have access to other parts.

What is your forum url ? See what I can find for you

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yaay I just got linked by xbox.com (mexico)

Xbox.com | comunidad - Comunidad

Backlinks are basically "links" to your pages.

For example, say you find a U.S. Chess forum, and ask the admin if they'd like to add you to their links as an Australian Chess Forum and they do, that is a back link. A link from somewhere else back to your page.

Many people do a lot of link directories and things, I haven't really done much of that and think that content (aka linkbait - a page that is potentially interesting and will gather links from other sites easily) is much more important than directory submissions or link exchanges.

If Google sees you have exchanged links with someone they'll weigh your links accordingly, but if they see you've got all these one way links from outside places coming into your site they'll take notice and give it a higher rating.

hope that helps a bit, if it doesn't, ask me more questions and i'll try to explain in better detail

With this latest PageRank update, I just got a PR 3!

I'm so happy