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Backlink History

The Backlink History section of the Comparator Tools is for SEOs engaged in link building and marketing professionals involved in digital PR. Backlink History data can help answer questions such as: how has my backlink profile evolved? How have the backlink profiles of my competitors changed recently and historically? This backlink checker tool provides an intuitive visual representation of the historical acquisition of backlinks for up to ten domains or URLs over a predefined period. Choose from daily, cumulative or normalised views to verify SEO strategies and drive digital PR performance.

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Track Growth

Backlink History charts can help track the growth of a backlink profile. These charts are intuitive, powerful visualisations of backlink data in a given timeframe. The input required to use this tool is simple: enter a maximum of ten unique web resources for analysis: domains, subdomains or URLs.

Screenshot of Majestic's Backlink History tool input interface, allows users to compare up to 10 unique root domains, subdomains, or URLs. Fresh Index or Historic Index options are available, with a 'Compare' button at the bottom right - Majestic.com
Compare the Backlink Profile of 10 domains, subdomains or URLs

Backlink History will generate a chart with data from the backlink profiles of all the websites entered in the previous step.

Graph showing the backlink history of fifa.com and uefa.com from March to July, with backlinks from external referring URLs discovered over time.
Backlink History Comparison for 2 domains

Backlink History data provides meaningful insights for SEOs and digital marketers interested in knowing how many backlinks to a given domain have been discovered daily. The graph provides an overview of a website's new backlinks and growth rate.

Established brands will enjoy a sustained backlink profile growth rate. There will be spikes due to product launches or marketing campaigns. In the previous screenshot, uefa.com enjoyed a much higher and prolonged growth than fifa.com between June and July because of EURO 2024.

This image shows the referring domains of two websites discovered over time from March to July.
Backlink History - Referring Domains

Majestic's Backlink History tool tracks the number of new backlinks acquired over time and provides critical insights into the referring domains contributing to the website's backlink profile. As the previous screenshot illustrates, the tool shows the new referring domains for the two websites. Understanding the referring domains' diversity, quality, and topical relevance is crucial, as it helps identify which newly acquired backlinks are driving the success of Digital PR initiatives or link-building for SEO. Referring Domains History allows for a more comprehensive analysis of the ongoing strategy's performance, enabling SEOs and Digital Marketers to pinpoint high-value links and optimise efforts to acquire more backlinks from authoritative and relevant sources.

Download and Analyse

A screenshot of The Majestic Backlink Checker History Tool. The top graph illustrates the number of backlinks from external referring URLs discovered over time; the bottom graph displays the number of referring domains discovered over the same period. In this image, a download data pop-up is visible, offering options to export the data in Excel, CSV, and TSV formats, allowing SEOs and digital marketers to check backlinks, perform analysis and create detailed reports
The Majestic Backlink Checker History Tool Download Options

Majestic's Backlink History tool offers comprehensive data on backlinks from external referring URLs and referring domains, that helps understand trends and can inspire SEO strategies. The data is easily downloadable in various formats, including Excel, CSV, and TSV. This flexibility facilitates analysis, the creation of detailed reports, and the development of effective link-building strategies for SEO by integrating the data in the preferred format into any workflow or procedure. This approach ensures that strategies remain data-driven and optimised for success.

Chart View Modes and Types

Chart formats are available in three formats:

  1. Daily
  2. Cumulative
  3. Normalized

Daily

Screenshot of Majestic's Backlink History tool in daily view mode, showing a line graph comparing data for two websites. It highlights a data point for July 12 with 71,327 backlinks from URLs to one of the websites.
Backlink History View Mode: Daily

This is the type of chart we have seen so far. The default daily view shows data points for any given day. The example shows spikes and trends in backlink acquisition, including a highlighted data point on July 12th with 71,327 URLs for uefa.com. This view mode emphasises the daily fluctuations and trends in backlink acquisition.

Cumulative

Graph of Majestic's Backlink History tool in cumulative view mode, displaying a line graph comparing the total external referring URLs with backlinks to fifa.com and uefa.com from March to July. The image highlights increasing backlink totals, with fifa.com in blue and uefa.com in orange. A specific data point for July 11th shows fifa.com reaching 3,183,092 backlinks. This cumulative view is a visualisation used to identify long-term growth and competitive trends, highlighting the competition between sites in backlink acquisition over time.
Backlink History View Mode: Cumulative

Majestic's Backlink History tool in cumulative view mode provides data on the total external referring URLs over time, allowing SEOs and digital marketers to monitor long-term backlink growth and competitive dynamics. As illustrated in the previous image, the cumulative view mode highlights the totals for each site. With fifa.com represented by a blue line and uefa.com represented by an orange line, the graph shows a steady upward trend for both domains, making it easy to visualise overall backlink acquisition. A specific data point on July 11th reveals that fifa.com reached 3,183,092 backlinks. Cumulative mode is significant to SEOs and digital marketers because it helps determine if a site is catching up with its competitor and provides insights into the effectiveness of link-building strategies and digital PR over an extended period.

Normalized

Graph of Majestic's Backlink History tool in normalised view mode, displaying a line graph comparing backlink discovery frequency for two websites. The graph highlights daily data points with a specific data point for July 12th, showing how one website reached a value of 6.0623. This normalised view emphasises relative backlink acquisition rates, making it easier to compare performance between the two sites over time.
Backlink History View Mode: Normalized

In normalised view mode, Majestic's Backlink History tool compares backlink discovery frequency per million pages, providing insights into their relative backlink acquisition efficiency. Normalised view mode eliminates the impact of crawl rate variability, which could otherwise inflate the backlinks found in each index build. The actual share of those links might be falling, indicating a potential decline of interest in that domain. This data is only available for backlinks-based charts.

The graph comparing fifa.com and uefa.com shows how the normalised view makes it easier to see relative performance trends by revealing fluctuations and spikes in backlink acquisition rates. In this example, on July 12th, uefa.com reached a value of 6.0623. The normalised view allows for a fair comparison of acquisition rates regardless of the absolute number of backlinks.

Typical Applications

Backlink History can be used in many different ways - here are two examples of analysis: one in social media and another in brand or product benchmarking.

Social Media Profile Validation

Image of the historic backlink profile of a spoof/false X (Twitter) handle - Majestic.com
The Backlink Profile of a Hoax Social Media Profile of a Celebrity

The Majestic Backlink History tool is essential for digital marketing. It can help understand trends and features of social media backlink profiles. In this example of how backlinks can inform on the authenticity of social media handles, the historic backlink analysis compares genuine X (Twitter) accounts to "spoof/hoax" ones.

Product or Brand Benchmarking

Image of Majestic's Backlink History tool in cumulative view mode, displaying two line graphs that compare the total number of backlinks and referring domains for IBM, Oracle, and Dell. The top graph shows the backlink history, with IBM leading significantly, represented by a blue line, Oracle in orange, and Dell in green. The bottom graph shows the referring domains history with similar trends.
Example of Backlink History data of Competing Brands

By looking at individual pages, we can compare competing products better. This article on Backlink History charts at URL Level examines a case study where backlink history is used at both URL and referring domain level to estimate market share between three top-rated, powerful brands.

A Backlink Checker Tool that Tracks Your Performance Over Time

Majestic's Backlink History is an essential backlink checker for tracking backlink profiles over extended periods. It enables SEOs and digital marketers to monitor the effectiveness of digital PR and link-building campaigns. Visualising data in daily, cumulative, and normalised views can help identify trends and patterns to update or create new strategies. Comprehensive, in-depth insights help benchmark against competitors and optimise efforts for improved digital marketing and SEO performance. For more information and to see how Majestic's tools can enhance your digital PR and SEO strategies, contact us now or book a walkthrough.

Free SEO Tools - Site Explorer Backlink Profile Data

Majestic provide free SEO Tools, backlink profile data with Site Explorer. You can access a changing example of free backlink profile data on Site Explorer without signup or validation. We've made this easy to access - just press the orange search icon on the homepage.

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Fresh Index

Unique URLs crawled 331,189,122,665
Unique URLs found 791,452,257,864
Date range 23 Jul 2024 to 20 Nov 2024
Last updated 1 hour 24 minutes ago

Historic Index

Unique URLs crawled 4,502,566,935,407
Unique URLs found 21,743,308,221,308
Date range 06 Jun 2006 to 26 Mar 2024
Last updated 03 May 2024

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