Backlink metrics explained: what Domain Rating measures, why link tools disagree, and how to tell whether a link actually did anything.https://backlink.is/https://backlink.is/blogs/link-velocity-and-other-metrics-that-mislead/https://backlink.is/blogs/link-velocity-and-other-metrics-that-mislead/Velocity, anchor ratios, toxicity scores, link-to-page ratios. Where each came from, what it's derived from, and how much weight it holds.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTmetricsdata-qualityhttps://backlink.is/blogs/how-to-tell-whether-a-link-did-anything/https://backlink.is/blogs/how-to-tell-whether-a-link-did-anything/You can't isolate one link in a live search index. Here's what you can honestly claim, and how to build a case that survives scrutiny.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTattributionreportinghttps://backlink.is/blogs/referring-domains-versus-total-backlinks/https://backlink.is/blogs/referring-domains-versus-total-backlinks/One of these numbers is stable and informative; the other is dominated by footers and templates. Which to report, and why.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTmetricsreportinghttps://backlink.is/blogs/what-domain-rating-actually-measures/https://backlink.is/blogs/what-domain-rating-actually-measures/DR is a logarithmic score derived from one vendor's crawl of the link graph. Here's what that means for the number in your report.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTmetricsdata-qualityhttps://backlink.is/blogs/why-two-tools-report-different-backlink-counts/https://backlink.is/blogs/why-two-tools-report-different-backlink-counts/One tool says 1,400 links, another says 5,900, Search Console says something else again. Neither is broken — here's the mechanism.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTtoolsdata-quality