Google: We Do Not Index Links, We Index The Pages Between The Links

Google's John Mueller clarified how SEOs should think about Google's index and links on the web. He said on Twitter "we index pages, we don't index links. Links are between pages." That means, Google will index a page, that page may have links on it, and if Google sees the link, it knows there is a link but it indexes the page, not the link. Google的John Mueller阐明了SEO应该如何考虑Google的索引和网络上的链接。他在Twitter上说：“我们索引页面，我们不索引链接。链接位于页面之间。” 这意味着，Google将为页面编制索引，该页面上可能包含链接，并且如果Google看到该链接，则它知道存在一个链接，但会为该页面编制索引，而不是该链接。

Here is the tweet:

This brings us back to when John explained that if one of the pages between the link is removed, gone, 404ed or something else, than the link is gone. If you cut the cord, the two are no longer connected. 这使我们回到约翰解释说，如果链接之间的页面之一被删除，消失，404ed或其他原因，则链接消失了。如果切断电源线，则两者将不再连接。

It is a small distinction but a distinction.

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