{"id":4130,"date":"2022-01-11T13:28:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/11\/google-links-have-to-be-on-indexed-pages-to-be-counted-not-also-all-indexed-links-are-counted\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T13:28:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:28:14","slug":"google-links-have-to-be-on-indexed-pages-to-be-counted-not-also-all-indexed-links-are-counted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/11\/google-links-have-to-be-on-indexed-pages-to-be-counted-not-also-all-indexed-links-are-counted\/","title":{"rendered":"Google: Links Have To Be On Indexed Pages To Be Counted &amp; Not Also All Indexed Links Are Counted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google said it is okay to ignore toxic links that some tools are reporting but why?  Well, we know that for a link to be counted by Google the page linking out needs to be indexed by Google in the first place. Plus, Google, since Penguin 4.0, doesn&#8217;t even count all links, even if they are on indexed pages.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=T_2pY2qdYtI:BcHwDaXM2Rw:UCg8P_nGCaA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=UCg8P_nGCaA\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=T_2pY2qdYtI:BcHwDaXM2Rw:yIl2AUoC8zA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=T_2pY2qdYtI:BcHwDaXM2Rw:hl8ANDcrVaY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=hl8ANDcrVaY\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=T_2pY2qdYtI:BcHwDaXM2Rw:V-t1I-SPZMU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=V-t1I-SPZMU\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=T_2pY2qdYtI:BcHwDaXM2Rw:Gu391qSwH_A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=Gu391qSwH_A\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=T_2pY2qdYtI:BcHwDaXM2Rw:cGdyc7Q-1BI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=T_2pY2qdYtI:BcHwDaXM2Rw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=T_2pY2qdYtI:BcHwDaXM2Rw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=T_2pY2qdYtI:BcHwDaXM2Rw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=T_2pY2qdYtI:BcHwDaXM2Rw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=T_2pY2qdYtI:BcHwDaXM2Rw:MbsSfiz-sEw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=MbsSfiz-sEw\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=T_2pY2qdYtI:BcHwDaXM2Rw:qj6IDK7rITs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google said it is okay to ignore toxic links that some tools are reporting but why? Well, we know that for a link to be counted by Google the page linking out needs to be indexed by Google in the first place. Plus, Google, since Penguin 4.0, doesn&#8217;t even count all links, even if they are on indexed pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}