SEOLOK checks the links pointing to your site every week. See referring domains, total backlinks, domain rank and the links you've lost, with changes carried into your monthly report.
| Metric | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Referring domains | 120 | ▲ 10 |
| Backlinks | 900 | ▲ 50 |
| Lost in 30 days | 12 | — |
Links from other websites are a visible part of your site's reputation on the web, and Google's documentation says plainly that it uses links to discover pages. The trouble is that those links are outside your control. A news site prunes its archive, a partner rebuilds their website, a blog shuts down, and a link you earned years ago vanishes without a word.
Spot a lost link quickly and a friendly email often gets it back. Notice it months later and it becomes hard to work out which page removed it, when, and why. Backlink monitoring closes that blind spot.
When you add a site, its backlink profile is pulled from our external backlink data infrastructure. From then on it is checked every week and we record:
Because weekly readings are kept, you can see the trend: are referring domains growing steadily or eroding over the last few months? The summary also feeds the backlink section of your monthly PDF report.
Links that look suspicious can appear as "disavow candidate" in the site audit action list. It's only a flag; preparing a disavow file and submitting it to Google is your call.
Focus on the trend across several weeks rather than any single reading. Small weekly swings in referring domains are normal, because an external crawler may find a page one week and miss it the next. The real signal is a rise or fall that holds over several measurements.
The card above is a simplified backlink view. Totals for referring domains and backlinks and the domain rank sit at the top, with the list of linking domains underneath. Lost links are marked separately so you can see at a glance which sources to follow up with. Domains and figures in the example are illustrative.
Row limits per plan are listed on the pricing page.
It depends on your plan: 100 rows on Free, 1,000 on Growth and 3,000 on Boost. On Free, the first 10 rows are shown in the dashboard.
Search Console shows a sample of the links Google knows about and doesn't track when they disappear. SEOLOK stores weekly measurements, so change over time, lost links in particular, becomes visible. Looking at both sources together works best.
No. Domain rank is an indicator calculated by our backlink data infrastructure to summarise a domain's link profile. Google does not use it. It's useful for comparison but shouldn't be treated as a measure of quality on its own.
Most sites don't need to. According to Google's help documentation, the disavow tool is meant for specific cases such as the risk of a manual action. SEOLOK may flag some links as disavow candidates, but the decision and the file are always yours.
Backlink data refreshes weekly. A removed link shows up among lost links in the first weekly check after it disappears, although the external crawler may occasionally take a little longer to revisit the page.
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