Google has reversed the economy of links; linking to a document makes that document more valuable to page-ranking systems. “The link has a clearer value to B than the content of Bs page has to me or to my readers. I pay B for Bs content with my link.” Jill Walker
—Links and Power: The Political Economy of Linking on the Web
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