Backlinks and authority
Where the authority score comes from, and how to read the Backlinks page.
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Seolyticize's Authority (0–100) is measured on the Common Crawl link graph of the whole crawled web — over a hundred million domains — and shows where a domain actually sits in it. It's free to look up for any domain, in the client's overview and in Site explorer.
Until a graph release has been read end to end, the score is withheld rather than estimated from a partial count. A domain the release doesn't contain shows a dash, never a zero.
The Backlinks page
Open the client's Backlinks page. Vendor data arrives with Refresh SEO data on the overview (and on a weekly sweep); the rest comes from Seolyticize's own crawler.
Referring domains — who links to the client.
Anchor text — the words those links use.
Links we checked ourselves — our crawler fetches each linking page and looks for the link. Free, and deliberately slow. Known links are re-checked every week.
Links our own crawler found — from our own index, with anchor text. A floor on the domain's links, never a total.
Disavow file — mark a link to add it to the file. Nothing is preselected.
Gained and lost links for the period appear on the client's overview.