A ranking factor is one of the many signals a search engine uses to decide how pages are placed in search results. The factors cover relevance, content quality, backlinks, and technical health, among others. Their exact weighting is kept secret and shifts continuously with algorithm updates.
Backlinks from trustworthy sources are widely regarded as one of the more important ranking factors.
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