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[HELP] How do you validate backlinks
Posted by on December 6, 2025 at 5:29 amHi, I have a new saas project and I am hearing that backlinks are very valuable.
As a software developer myself I prefer to validate the deliverables.
What are the aspects to take care of while validating the links delivered by the agency/linkbuilder for me.P.s. I have asked this question in other channels but haven't got a good response and I am not looking for any tool or agency 🤗
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Ugh, I wrote 3 answers and my PC keeps crashing after a new BIOS update.
Briefly: check that the domain is not zero’d – is getting traffic. Check that the page has traffic.
The 2 big myths in bakclinks in SEO: 1) that the whole site must be relevent and is supported by conjecture. Its a myth from the PR and backlink shills hoping people will focus on the “relevancy” of the site vs its authority/traffic quality or value
Second is DA. I have never bought a link, never will. DA focus is complete nonsense – there’s no chance that every page on Microsoft or Google has the same DA as the domain. The domain DA is estimated assuming traffic to the whole site – all the pages – but different pages have different traffic -some none at all
Since the Dec 2024 Topical Authority update – the one that slated Hubspot – traffic is more and more of a control/gateway to authority egress.
Basically the myth of relevancy is that the whole site must be relevant or relevancy is most important. This is nonsense. Relevancy isn’t a value – its the modulare of throughput.
Similarly is the idea that Google can automatically – or manually – segment and cateogorize based on the whims of segmenting or categorizing knowledge. Just within networking and cybersecuriy there are multiple concepts that overlap. Also, there are very few “pure” sites – and how would you start breaking up TA? You can’t
Anyway – the myth matters not – you can ask any LLM to explain where relevancy starts and begins for PageRank – the PageRank patent is freely available
I’ve never bought backlinks and never wanted to become reliant on them – Google keeps zeroing link farms (and PBNS are not “upscale” link farms – Google link farm vs PBN)
What you need is a page that is relevant and that RANKS for that topic. Then the link must point with context and that context must be relevant. Its much more important to chase after pages with organic traffic (also an indicator that the site is not penalized)
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Look at the website. Click on blogs. Read the blogs. If they are helpful, it is a legit website.
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