Google Doesn’t Technically Follow Links, It Extracts, Collects & Checks Later

<p><a href="https://bloggerseo.com.ng/google-search-snippet-with-reviewed-by-author-name">Google’s Gary Illyes clarified on the Search Off The Record podcast that Google technically does not follow links. Instead, Google will extract the links, collect them in a database, and then check them later. Of course, most of you know this already and it doesn’t really matter much for SEO to know the difference but hey.