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92% -- share of marketers believing links will remain google ranking factor for marketers (2026)
92% of marketers believe that links will still be a Google ranking factor in the next five years.
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92%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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SocialMediaToday
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marketers: 92% share of marketers believing links will remain google ranking factor. Source: SocialMediaToday (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/marketers-links-ranking-factor-five-years
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