Matt Cutts On Links via Pubcon 2011
- SEO |
A: What matters is bottom line. Links are a part of search - they represent online reputation. Although there are many tools that report links, none of the tools can tell you which links are trusted by Google (not even Google's tools). While the link structure looks bad from the outside, the actual linkgraph that Google uses/trusts looks much better. When the New York Times complained about a site with 10,000 spammy links, Google investigated the site and not a single link had slipped through Google's filter. Only the links Google trusts count.
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