At the time, relatively few sites made this method effective.
Links from government and authoritative sources were precious.
Dofollow and Nofollow links
HTML created an attribute system to help search engines treat links differently.
Typically, they are links to other pages on the same site or to authoritative sources of information.
They are often used for promotional or low-value links.
However, search engines may still consider these links even though they do not directly affect SEO.
By 2024, their influence has become so minimal that they are virtually ignored, especially for lower-ranking sites.
While links still have some value, a page needs thousands of links for a tangible SEO-positive effect.
Therefore, Google began to favor forums like Reddit and Quora as higher-quality sources.
By mid-2024, Google wholly removed forums from YMYL (Your Money or Your Life) search results.
Bing search engine:Bing works differently.
Bing analyzes pages over time and often provides more relevant answers to many queries than competitors.
