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Earlier this year our founder and CEO, Eric Enge, published a link ranking data study that rocked the SEO industry. Confirming the much-publicized statement of Google’s Andrey Lipattsev that backlinks are the most powerful ranking signal (along with content quality) in Google’s algorithm, the study showed a near-perfect correlation between the number of links to a site and its ranking in search results.