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Backlinks to your website from other sites with high PR(Page Rank) help you get a high PR yourself.  To check the number of backlinks you have on a regular basis, use this free tool.  It gives you a report of the backlinking sites PR, whether it is a nofollow link (in which case it cannot help you as google crawlers won’t use it) and the anchor text used.

This is also a great way to get find places your website is being discussed so that you can get involved at the point of contact and increase conversions.