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What Are Backlinks and How Do They Help Your SEO?
Let’s start by covering all of the basics before we dive too deep into how to get backlinks.

What is a Backlink?
Backlinks are any links to your website from other website. Here’s an example of 2 backlinks to RyRob.com, from my podcast interview by Jon Penland at Kinsta.com.

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The first of those links goes to a specific page on my site (the iStash story) with the anchor text “first side project”. The second backlink is to my homepage, with the anchor text “Ryan Robinson”. Both types of backlink are useful for improving your SEO (search engine optimization).

What is an External Link?
When you link to someone else, that’s called a backlink for their site and an external link for your site. Many bloggers choose to have their external links open in a new tab so that readers don’t lose their place on the original site.