How to Recover backlinks?

[replic8te]

Ok, I purchased a nice targetted name that Im turning into a niche related site.

It has some nice backlinks that bring in low but consistent traffic. How do I "recover" these backlinks for my dev effort so that I can maintain them and still keep the traffic flowing?

Is it as simple as creating a Links page and then listing links back to the previous sites backlinks?

I failed webdev 101 so if you could keep your reply in English rather than devlish, that would be much appreciated

TIA
Mike

[dcristo]

If you have changed filenames for the subpages, you can do a permanent 301 redirect from the old to the new pages. This is the best for SEO as it should still pass on link juice.