How to Confirm Google Has Indexed Your Backlinks
Why Index Status Matters for Backlinks Building backlinks is only half the work. The other half is making sure Google actually sees them and adds them to its index. If a link exists on a live page but Google has never crawled or indexed that page, the link might as well not exist. This is why SEO professionals pay close attention to index status. Without indexing, a backlink cannot pass authority or help rankings. Googlebot discovers new URLs through crawling. It follows l
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Why Index Status Matters for Backlinks Building backlinks is only half the work. The other half is making sure Google actually sees them and adds them to its index. If a link exists on a live page but Google has never crawled or indexed that page, the link might as well not exist. This is why SEO professionals pay close attention to index status. Without indexing, a backlink cannot pass authority or help rankings. Googlebot discovers new URLs through crawling. It follows l
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