: Does Google count external Javascript or CSS files as backlinks? Is there any information available on whether search engines (Google) count external Javascript or CSS files as backlinks? Example:

@Goswami781

Straight answer NO.

Worth understanding:

Google is pretty good with reading JS and header stuff.

Google may use the signal for page discovery.

In most of the situations those external resources are blocked by the provider, example:


fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto
fonts.googleapis.com/robots.txt

So, from the discovery point of view yes.

Vote Up Vote Down

@Kevin317

Those are not links so they aren't counted as such. They're URLs of resources which are very different things. Hosting such a resource offers no direct SEO value but being known as a reliable host can encourage other sites to link to you as such.

Vote Up Vote Down