Google's John Mueller: Requiring A Followed Link For API Access Is A Paid Link

John Mueller of Google was asked if requiring API users to give the API source a followed link is okay or not. John Mueller said that it is essentially the same thing as a paid link. He said this on Twitter:

@jsilton That's essentially a paid link...

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