: Can one or two links from popular sites with great reputation cause my site to rank noticably better in Google? Maybe this is a question which stems admittedly out of lack of proper knowledge

@Shakeerah822

Firstly, it's great to know that your hard work on your blog is paying off.

Considering the fact that links are counted as votes by SEs, links from reputable domains surely help in increasing your domain trust and authority in your niche.

Now coming to ranks; if the link has your targeted keyword in the anchor, you might or might not have a visible improvement in the ranks, it depends on your current rank for the keyword in the SERP and the competition ahead of you. For example, if you rank # 75 for the keyword, you might jump to #30 , but if it already is within the top 10, you might not notice an immediate jump. You might need a couple more of such links to climb up the top 10 ladder. The higher you move up the ladder, the more link power you need to outperform the competitors. It also depends on the keyword you're searching with. That one link might place you at # 1 for a long tail keyword that has that targeted keyword in it.

Another impact of this link - you might expect to see improvement in rank for other pages that are linked from the page that gained the link. For example, if you gained the link on page A and it has links to page B, C & D, you might expect to see an improvement in ranks for the other pages since they also get a lion share of the link equity flowing in.

So there are certain factors that come into play here. The key is to keep gaining such links and making sure that the link equity is leveraged to your advantage and eventually you will see improvement in ranks and traffic.

Hope this helps.

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