Backlinks! All you need to know about them

Hello!
This is my first post here. I will be giving you some cool stuffs on here and today we are talking about backlinks.

What are Backlinks?

A backlink is any link received by a web page (website, web directory, top level domain) from another web page or directory accordingly.
Backlinks, also known as inbound links, incoming links,  inlinks, and inward links.