Google’s John Mueller said that not all links are given full weight and does not pass the full signals it can potentially pass. Instead, Google might not pass any weight from the link or might pass partial weight from the link.

John said this on this past Friday’s video hangout at the 1:23 minute mark where he said “we don’t give every link that we find full weight.”

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