Acquiring authoritative backlinks is an important aspect of successful search engine optimization. If you are working to actively acquire links, you should establish a rubric for site authority to guide your efforts.

In the past several years, Google has broadened the criteria it assesses pages by to determine whether they are “good” content for users and has attempted to quantify this assessment into its search ranking algorithm. Google has announced the upcoming incorporation of its identified “Core Web Vitals” into a set of signals known as “Page Experience” that is slated to be incorporated into the algorithm next year.