Make sure that other sites link to yours
Links help our crawlers find your site and can give your site greater visibility in our search results. When returning results for a search, Google combines PageRank (our view of a page's importance) with sophisticated text-matching techniques to display pages that are both important and relevant to each search. Google counts the number of votes a page receives as part of its PageRank assessment, interpreting a link from page A to page B as a vote by page A for page B. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."

Keep in mind that our algorithms can distinguish natural links from unnatural links. Natural links to your site develop as part of the dynamic nature of the web when other sites find your content valuable and think it would be helpful for their visitors. Unnatural links to your site are placed there specifically to make your site look more popular to search engines. Some of these types of links (such as link schemes and doorway pages) are covered in our webmaster guidelines.

Only natural links are useful for the indexing and ranking of your site.

 

4 Comments on How important are inbound links? Fact or Fiction according to Google

MAY
23
2007
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Thanks for sharing this.  It helps me when working on my webpage.  That is great.
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MAY
24
2007
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The only reason I am blogging is for the lnks. Right now the big g looks at them very favorably.
7:47am • #2
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Greg - Absoloutely this is imortant as the big "G" clearly states in the webmaster guilelines on how to imporve your site's rankings - Thanks for the comment
11:05am • #3
As you know - the quality and relevance of the inbound links is very important - I always wonder when I see Joe Sho's bakery being displayed on the inbound or outbound side of a real estate website - but I see that sort of thing all the time.
10:09pm • #4

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