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Backlink quantity, long the currency of SEO, has been displaced by the quality and frequency of genuine editorial mentions.
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Forbes.com,
23 Sep. 2026
For now, India's strategy appears to be building its own dam in Arunachal Pradesh in case China releases — perhaps deliberately — enormous quantities of water, as Chief Minister Khandu suggested in June last year to the outlet, Press Trust of India.