A link is nothing more than a Recommendation.

3 Reasons why you need to get backlinks for your website.
1. To get indexed-  Webmaster’s worry so much over getting indexed that some  pay for information relating to getting indexed. One way to get indexed quickly is to get a backlink from an authority site in your niche…and even then your site may get crawled but not indexed immediately. You can also speed things up by submitting your site to webmaster Tools.
2. To actively promote your site naturally building links.  Depending on your site and content, more links lead to more links If you can get others to recommend your pages, the social proof alone will lift your site up the rankings its backlinks adding the fuel to take off.
3. To become recognized by the search engines as an authority site. A source of relevant information in your market or niche- The more recommendations/links you receive, the more recognized  by the search engines you are and the more the search engines recognize you, the higher you will climb in the page rankings because it will deem your page/site as highly relevant.

Check out future post for more more on the reasons for Building Backlinks.

A link is how you get from one page to another its a clickable text or image that highlights when you mouse over the text and is usually blue in color. Backlinks is the term used to describe a link that takes you from one website to another and is counted as an indication that the reciving website has relevant information for the reader.
So the more backlinks you have the more relevant your site will be in the eyes of the search engines and the higher your website will be ranked meaning more traffic.
Let’s take a look at ways you can get backlinks and increase the potential traffic to your website every day and the type of methods used.
Wherever possible your backlink should use one of your keyword phrases as anchor text. This is to increase your chances of ranking for you search term.
Article marketing is one way webmasters can get backlinks to their websites by submitting relevant information in the form of articles to Article Directories. These articles contain links to the webmasters site and create quality backlinks for them.
Bookmarking a blog post to a social directory can produce a backlink to your website. Social directories and search engines give lots of link love to these bookmarks.
Posting comments on blogs will also create backlinks. Tese links are not always of high quality and hard to find relevant blogs that will allow a link back to your own site.
Participate in online forums help people with there problems Include a signature file that includes a linked keyword phrase back to your website. These posts in discussion forums can stay online giving you backlinks for many years .
A press release describing the latest product your business has to offer will contain a link back to your website. A Press Release has a cost but can produce both immediate and long term valuable traffic.
Exchanging links with other website owners will of course produce backlinks but it is said this type of link building does not always help with ranking if over used.
Purchasing ads on other blogs with text links embedded will also produce a backlink. The best place for such links is the sidebar as the link can sometimes count on every age it is shown on.
Webmasters can also produce guest post on other blogs with a relevant anchor text link in the post another quality backlink method.
As you will realize backlink building can be very time consuming and needs to be done correctly for good results one method is not enough a mixture of all is a must The SEO Pros use software to speedup there results something we can discuss later.
For now create as many relevant backlinks from high ranking websites and pages as you can to ensure your websites success.