Three domains supplied 94% of our backlinks, and none of them came from outreach. Here is what a three-month-old link profile actually looks like, why the authority metric misleads startups, and the four levels that describe real progress.
Across 124 queries in our own Search Console data, the average query moved 4.17 positions on a normal day. Before you rewrite anything, here is a 15-minute triage that separates a real problem from an ordinary Tuesday.
One API is free and only sees your own site. The other costs money and sees everything. Combine them and you own a rank tracker that costs less than a seat licence. Here is the build, the request math, and the guardrails.
Google does not publish a public backlink checker. The Search Console Links report is the closest thing, and its own documentation lists six hard limits. Here is which backlink source to use for which question, with our own export as the worked example.
Same site, same query, same 90 days: we found up to 11 positions of difference between mobile and desktop rankings in our own Search Console data. Here is why it happens and a Claude Code workflow that splits the two without a new mobile rank tracker subscription.
Free SERP checkers stop at position 100. We asked Google for 200 results across six queries and it returned 83 to 128 organic results, then stopped on its own. Here is what actually sits past position 100, and when it is worth checking.
Most ranking monitors fail in one of two ways: everything alerts, or nothing does. Here is the threshold design we use, and the Hermes Agent skill file that runs it every week without waking you up for noise.
A Search Console export is not a ranking report. This is the weekly workflow we use to turn query data into a report that says what moved, what probably caused it, and what to check next — built once with Codex and rerun in minutes.
An SEO agent is a supervised worker, not a ranking autopilot. Here is what six agents actually do with ranking data, which tasks are worth automating first, and where the output still needs a human decision.
A 90-day workflow for turning an X account into a measurable traffic channel: one identity, an input system, posts engineered for replies, and a link route you can trace in analytics.