Google Won’t Exclude Backlink as a Ranking Factor at Least for Now!
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Here is a transcription of the video:
“We don’t have a version like that exposed to the public but we have run experiments run that internally and the quality looks much much worse. It turns out backlinks, even though there is some noise and is certainly a lot of spam, on most part, there is still really really big win in terms of quality for search results. So, we have played around with the idea of turning off backlink relevancy and at least for now, backlink relevancy still really helps to ensure that we return the most relevant set of search results. “
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