Wayback Machine Does Not Impact Your Google Rankings

Sep 24, 2020 - 7:44 am 1 — by

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Here is a new question I've never seen before - does being removed or I guess added to the Wayback Machine impact your Google search rankings? John Mueller from Google said no on Twitter.

Here are the tweets:

Like I said, I never saw this question being asked before.

Is it a bad question? Possibly, sorry Vlad, but it is an interesting question and thus I wanted to cover it here. You know what they say, there is no such thing as a stupid question.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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