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Backlinks / link persistence

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The creator claims backlink effects can persist after links are removed, a phenomenon called “link ghosts.”

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People get worried that when they lose backlinks in SEO, their rankings die too. Backlinks are what gives websites authority. Sometimes a website that once linked to you stops linking to you. You would think that if this happened, your SEO rankings would go down. A test was done. Two websites got 22 links each. Both websites increased in rankings consider...

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People get worried that when they lose backlinks in SEO, their rankings die too. Backlinks ar...

@@build_in_public · 2026-03-17

People get worried that when they lose backlinks in SEO, their rankings die too. Backlinks are what gives websites authority. Sometimes a website that once linked to you stops linking to you. You would think that if this happened, your SEO rankings would go down. A test was done. Two websites got 22 links each. Both websites increased in rankings consider...

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People get worried that when they lose backlinks in SEO, their rankings die too. Backlinks are what gives websites authority. Sometimes a website that once linked to you stops linking to you. You would think that if this happened, your SEO rankings would go down. A test was done. Two websites got 22 links each. Both websites increased in rankings considerably from the links. But what happened when those same links were removed? The results are crazy. Months after the links have been removed, every page that was...