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    • seoman10
      seoman10 last edited by

      If a backlink location has less authority/trust than my own site would it likely pass any value or not?

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      • DmitriiK
        DmitriiK last edited by

        Hi there.

        Yes, it will. It works pretty much the same way as old PageRank system. Website's authority is divided equally by number of outgoing dofollow links. So, yes, you will get juice, just less than from more authoritive website.

        Check images from this old post: https://moz.com/blog/link-consolidation-the-new-pagerank-sculpting

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