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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.
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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.
The 2026 ranking factors survey has been summarized everywhere, and the summaries all skip the useful part. Seven findings from the expert comments, each with what to change and how to check it.
Google's John Mueller said in September 2026 that the disavow tool does have effects. This step-by-step guide covers when disavowing is worth it, how to build a valid disavow file, and how long to wait before you judge the result.
Before paying for or exchanging a backlink, verify the domain is still being indexed by Google. A 10-second freshness check (site: + time filter) screens out links that still open but carry no signal.
A Codex skill that verifies a list of backlinks one by one, then scores the profile factors it can prove - and refuses to invent numbers for the ones it cannot.
