Backlink

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

From the point of view of a given web resource (referent), a backlink is a hyperlink on another web resource (the referrer) that points to the referent. A web resource may be (for example) a website, web page, or web directory.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Backlink”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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