Spotted: profiles padded with backlinks to hide a thin referring-domain count

Spotted: profiles padded with backlinks to hide a thin referring-domain count

Word is the oldest trick in a teardown is flexing total backlinks. Read referring domains instead and the bluff collapses.

— 50,000 backlinks from 80 domains is sitewide footer/blogroll spam — one cheap deal, replicated.
— 4,000 backlinks from 3,500 domains is real, diversified acquisition.
— Ahrefs shows both; the ratio is the whole story. Backlinks-per-domain over ~20 and you're staring at sitewide links, not editorial wins.

Majestic confirms it — sitewide links inflate Citation Flow but barely move Trust Flow. The tools all expose it if you read the right column. Anyone leading with total backlinks is hiding their referring-domain count. Look there first. Watch this space.