Is It So That A Backlink Is Worthless Until Indexed On Google?
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the Americas
(That is, if we're trying to rank on Google.)
Does Google ever take back-links into consideration that appear in ZERO SERPs?
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Google have different databases and the serving index is not the only source of data that they use to calculate a sites ranking. So even their cached copy of the link will still be used for their overall calculation of rankings.
As a minimum, you need to ensure all your links are crawled to make them count towards your rankings. A crawled link will do something. But an indexed link will do a lot more to boost your rankings.
I'm using no indexing service and just building 3 tier pyramids of do follow links with the software.