Do links still work? How to interpret link data A few fun data studies

11. ~1 Billion
pages
We studied
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17. Are there pages in our database
that get search traffic with 0 links?
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21. It IS possible to get search traffic
to a page that has 0 backlinks.
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22. It IS possible to get search traffic
to a page that has 0 backlinks.
But only if there's a
lack of competition for
that keyword.
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46. 77.6% of domains in our
sample size had less
than 30% of their links
as “added links.”
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47. 77.6% of domains in our
sample size had less
than 30% of their links
as “added links.”In other words...
Links that appear together with
the linking page are vastly
more common than links that
are added after the page went
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75. https://ahrefs.com/blog/search-traffic-study/
https://ahrefs.com/blog/backlink-growth-study/
https://ahrefs.com/blog/reciprocal-links/