How Semrush's New Backlinks Tool Works
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 10:44 am
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Semrush introduced this new addition to its product catalog as a new version of its backlink analysis tool. It was developed over 18 months: 30,000 hours of work with the aim of expanding and improving its inbound link database. As Semrush explains, “the goal was to build the largest, fastest, and highest quality backlink database for our clients and to be better than the main competitors in the market.”
The product of all this work is a tool capable of indexing and finding many more references, in order to provide more complete and accurate data. It now has a database of more than 43 billion backlinks , coming from more than 1.6 billion referring domains . In addition to the ability to track around 25 billion URLs daily , to maintain the assertiveness of the data offered.
The tool works in a simple way: a queue of URLs is benin business email database used to determine which pages will be crawled. The crawlers then inspect the sites, identifying links to other websites, and then storing them. Previously, this process was hampered by less stringent search criteria, lower crawling power, and temporary storage that could delay and hinder the visibility of the data for clients.
Image: SEMrush
The image above shows the current process of the SEMrush backlink analysis tool, and now we will see what updates have been implemented in the different aspects of this system.
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The queue is, as we already mentioned, a list of URLs from which the backlinks will be tracked . In this regard, we must take into account that on the Internet we can find an innumerable number of pages for almost any topic or interest. For this reason, it was necessary to reduce the search spectrum, so in the update filters were added to prioritize unique content and websites with the highest authority.
Semrush introduced this new addition to its product catalog as a new version of its backlink analysis tool. It was developed over 18 months: 30,000 hours of work with the aim of expanding and improving its inbound link database. As Semrush explains, “the goal was to build the largest, fastest, and highest quality backlink database for our clients and to be better than the main competitors in the market.”
The product of all this work is a tool capable of indexing and finding many more references, in order to provide more complete and accurate data. It now has a database of more than 43 billion backlinks , coming from more than 1.6 billion referring domains . In addition to the ability to track around 25 billion URLs daily , to maintain the assertiveness of the data offered.
The tool works in a simple way: a queue of URLs is benin business email database used to determine which pages will be crawled. The crawlers then inspect the sites, identifying links to other websites, and then storing them. Previously, this process was hampered by less stringent search criteria, lower crawling power, and temporary storage that could delay and hinder the visibility of the data for clients.
Image: SEMrush
The image above shows the current process of the SEMrush backlink analysis tool, and now we will see what updates have been implemented in the different aspects of this system.
Line
The queue is, as we already mentioned, a list of URLs from which the backlinks will be tracked . In this regard, we must take into account that on the Internet we can find an innumerable number of pages for almost any topic or interest. For this reason, it was necessary to reduce the search spectrum, so in the update filters were added to prioritize unique content and websites with the highest authority.