Can mentions influence rankings?

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While these are soft signals, it seems shortsighted to say that a search engine as close to mimicking human understanding as Google fails to perceive them at all.

Today links are probably a little less important than they were until some time ago, even if they have an undoubted value for ranking purposes, with all the intentions of obtaining as many as possible that move SEOs and webmasters.

However, links are not the only tool in Google's quiver for judging reputation .

Mentions are the most natural way to demonstrate the importance of a why choose vk database brand, and they serve as a yardstick for judging the naturalness of the link acquisition trend.

Most likely - if there are no "distortions" due to unnatural link building campaigns - a site receives more mentions than backlinks, although the exact ratio varies depending on the sector: on medical and educational sites, for example, people tend to link to support their arguments, while on those more closely related to business and finance the tendency to use links drops exponentially.

Mentions are so powerful that they can impact the ranking of a keyword even if it is not used in the text, especially if they appear in significant quantities.

Considerable - personally - I believe it should be understood in relation to one's niche: for example, if I were a writer in a particular field, and one of the few in Italy, probably the mere fact that I am "prominent" in the albeit small niche, would probably be sufficient to influence the search results.

If you think about it, of course, this could also happen the other way around, to undermine the ranking of competitors through a denigratory scheme in the “environments that matter”.