The site isn`t indexed, but the post is

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Jim Munro: It is not bad, Sakib. Googlebot does not rank sites, googlebot ranks pages.
  
  
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  Sakib Shadman: Jim Munro Thank you soooo much. This helps. This makes so much sense.
  
  
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  Richard Hearne: Please explain this a bit more. Your article at yoursite_com/article got a link from example_com/article, but when you check GSC it`s reporting the canonical as example_com/article. Is this correct?
  
  
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  Sakib Shadman: Richard Hearne no no. I used a simple chrome plugin to check if I got do follow links, then I noticed that they do follow but the post was not indexed.
  
  So I wanted to know if that loses the value of the free link back
  
  
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  Michael Martinez: Sakib Shadman For a page`s outbound links to be counted in the search index, the page itself must be in the index.
  
  It can take a while for a search engine to find and index newly published content.…
  
  
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  Sakib Shadman: Michael Martinez Oh my, that`s a lot of raw data you just can`t google out. Like, thank you sooo much.
  
  Uh, they didn`t copy my content. They simply mentioned my comprehensive case study on my product.
  
  So no worries about that. Just would have asked them index their post they published on my case study
  
  
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  Sakib Shadman: But again my good sir, that was quality info. I`d love to read if you ever write for any SEO blogs.
  
  
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  Michael Martinez: Sakib Shadman I`ve written for a few SEO blogs over the years. You can find me with a search on Bing or Google.
  
  
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  Sakib Shadman: Michael Martinez aye aye cap`n. Thank you again. You have a wonderful day.