Backlinks are trust signals

[magnus2022]

Web crawlers are considering backlinks as trust signals. Where web crawlers see your links also matters. If web crawlers see your backlinks from spammy sites, it is very likely that your site also share the same characteristic. Birds of the same feathers flock together! What's your thought on this assertion?

 

[Nomad]

backlinks tell the search bot about the link. If these links are do follow, they pass link juice, and search bots will push the website up in the algorithm.

 

[Augusta]

Sure, Backlinks serve as trust signals for search engines because they indicate that other websites consider your content valuable and trustworthy enough to link to it.

 

[kit_hung]

I have thought about this too and it is true that backlinks are a sign of trust to web crawlers. But not every link is good. I also believe that the source of the link is more important than its quantity.

When you get backlinks from sites with bad reputations, it is like joining an untrustworthy group. Web crawlers see this as a sign of danger and can lower your site's ranking. This is similar to the proverb that birds of the same species flock together.