In the past most SEO training promoted getting back links. There were plenty of article submission sites for that purpose.I have been away from all this for a while. More recently I have not seen much mention of targeting backlinks and most of the old article submission sites seem to have vanished. Can you let me know how important backlinks are now? If they are important any tips would be great.
How important are back links for SEO in 2017?
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they are important, for example majestic tracks all backlinks to your site.it is also important that the backlinks are from high quality websites (e.g: edu and gov domains are the ones with most importance) and that your site follows all google webmaster guidelines.because the quality of backlinks matters, some people tried many techniques, like for example: to create a lot of low quality backlinks to the URLs of their competitors in order to decrease their ranking.Google developed a software to detect spammy behaviors called: Google Penguin