How do I use the backlink galaxy?

The galaxy draws every website that links to you around your own site. What the distance, size and colour of the dots mean is explained in the backlink galaxy explanation.

Open it

Links → Backlink Galaxy, or the Backlink galaxy tab at the top of the Links pages. It fills after your first backlink check.

Filter

Narrow it down by Risk (high, medium, low), Topic, Link attribute (dofollow, nofollow, UGC, sponsored), Review (not reviewed, keep, disavow candidate, ignore), Status (live, lost or all) and Min. domain rank. The topic of each website is an estimate.

Look closer

Click a dot to open that website: its domain rank and spam score (when your data source supplies them), when it was first and last seen, its links to you with their anchor and attribute, and Why this risk score. From there use Review this domain to keep it, mark it as a disavow candidate or ignore it, with a short reason.

Reviewed websites are marked, and so are paid placements bought through SEOmise's link marketplace.

Move it around

Drag a dot and let go. Pause movement stops the animation and Start movement starts it again; while the dots move, Shake it sets them loose. Table shows the same websites as a list with their topic, risk and review.