Link Analysis Can Help (or Harm) Your Web Site

Search engines look not just at your site but at other sites that link to yours. The search engines count those linked sites toward your site's ranking.

All other factors aside, if one site has 10 sites linking to it and another has 500, the one with 500 does better in search engine
rankings. But that's not all.

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