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Backlinks

If someone answers a question on this or any other forum with a link to another site, does that count as a backlink for search ability in the other sites ranking for google?

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  • It does but Google changed the way it weighs those now,  it looks for more natural links and if someone gets a lot of links in a given period they have to maintain that level just to stand still.  Backlinks are just one of many factors, each of which have become far more complicated with social media, news and hubs.  AI completely changes things and Google search is currently training it's AI which results in often wrong summaries.

    People are now gaming the algorithm and trying to get their site quoted.
  • Pretty sure all links from this site are set as NoFollow
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