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RedCardinal - 2:37 am on Nov 4, 2012 (gmt 0)


John Mueller has stated that a domain's backlink history follows it. There are a number of recent Webmaster Central hangouts where he addresses this directly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pIJe0c-Gj8#t=2163s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZFOjfNhr9I#t=24m58s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8fOzGJBPUs#t=193s

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