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42%
42% -- share of seos spending equal time on internal and external links for SEOs (2026)
42% of SEOs spend equal time on building internal and external links.
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42%
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2026
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Databox
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SEOs: 42% share of seos spending equal time on internal and external links. Source: Databox (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/seos-equal-time-internal-external-links
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