For more than a decade, backlinks were treated as the ultimate SEO currency. The more high-quality links you had, the higher you ranked—or at least that was the belief. While backlinks still matter, 2026 has made one thing very clear: topical authority now outweighs raw link power. Websites with fewer links but deeper, more coherent subject coverage are consistently outperforming heav... https://backlinkgen.com/blog/why-topical-authority-beats-backlinks-in-2026-the-new-seo-trust-model-explained/