<b>Reading a launch by its link velocity curve</b>

<b>Reading a launch by its link velocity curve</b>

Word from the index: you can spot a funded product launch weeks before the press release by watching the referring-domain slope.

Organic growth is a gentle ramp. A campaign reads as a step function — 4 links/month for a year, then 120 in March, then back to 6. That March spike is a budget cycle, not a story breaking.

— Cross-reference the link dates with their content: if 40 domains published near-identical 'Top 10 tools' roundups in the same fortnight, that's a syndicated placement buy.
— A genuine viral moment shows messy anchors and forum/social tails. A bought spike shows clean exact-match and zero conversation around it.

Multiple SaaS profiles show the textbook step-function this season — same agency fingerprint, same roundup template recycled across niches.

Watch this space.