Referring domain discovery
Find the websites linking to a domain and build a clearer view of backlink-source diversity across the profile.
Analyze Referring Domains
Screpy Referring Domains helps you understand which websites link to your domain. Review authority, linking pages, backlink counts, follow status, spam signals, broken links, and discovery dates in one off-page SEO view.
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What is Screpy Referring Domains?
Screpy Referring Domains is a domain-level backlink view that groups external links by the website providing them. It reports the source’s authority and spam context, backlink and referring-page counts, follow patterns, broken links and pages, first-seen and lost dates, and review actions for off-page SEO maintenance.
Map the referring-domain profile
- Screpy Referring domain discovery identifies the websites linking to the target domain and the diversity of those sources.
- Screpy Backlinks by domain and Referring page counts shows how many backlinks and linking pages each domain contributes.
- Screpy Target page analysis identifies the website pages each referring domain links to so valuable destinations can be protected.
- Screpy First-seen domains records when a source was first discovered in the link profile.
Evaluate quality and follow patterns
- Screpy Authority and spam signals provides domain-quality context for manual review rather than an automatic risk verdict.
- Screpy Follow status identifies the followed and nofollow relationship for domain links.
- Screpy Follow status distribution aggregates those link types across the referring-domain profile.
- Screpy Relevant domain opportunities identifies topical sources and pages worth considering in outreach or digital PR work.
Monitor maintenance and change
- Screpy New and lost domains monitors changes in link-source diversity, while Lost-domain dates records when a domain became inactive.
- Screpy Broken referring links and Broken page counts identifies sources and destination pages that require recovery, redirect, or source review.
- Screpy Domain monitoring updates and Domain change reports organizes newly discovered, lost, broken, and reviewed sources for stakeholders.
- Screpy Domain disavow actions sends selected suspicious domains into the manual disavow workflow when the supporting review justifies it.
Link Sources
See which domains link to your website.
Group backlinks by referring domain to understand where external authority comes from and which websites contribute the most links and referring pages.
- Review every discovered referring domain
- Compare backlink and referring-page counts
- Find the sources linking to important pages
Domain Quality
Evaluate referring domain quality.
Review authority context, spam signals, follow status, relevance, and link patterns before deciding which domains represent value or risk.
- Compare authority and spam indicators
- Separate followed and nofollow link patterns
- Review each source with broader link context
Domain Changes
Monitor new and lost referring domains.
Track changes in referring-domain diversity and investigate important sources that appear, disappear, or begin pointing to broken website pages.
- Find newly discovered link sources
- Investigate lost referring domains
- Recover valuable links pointing to broken URLs
Features
Referring Domain Analysis
Review link sources, domain quality, backlink counts, discovery dates, broken links, and referring-domain changes.
Backlinks by domain
See how many backlinks and referring pages each domain contributes instead of reviewing every external link in isolation.
Authority and spam signals
Use available domain-quality indicators as supporting context when reviewing potentially valuable or suspicious link sources.
Follow status
Review followed and nofollow link patterns from each referring domain to better understand how external links are marked.
New and lost domains
Monitor when referring domains enter or leave the profile and investigate changes that may affect important pages.
Broken referring links
Find domains linking to unavailable pages so useful external paths can be restored, redirected, or reviewed.
Relevant domain opportunities
Identify the domains and pages most closely connected to your topics when planning outreach or digital PR work.
Domain change reports
Document new, lost, and reviewed referring domains in clear updates that connect authority changes to ongoing SEO work.
Referring page counts
Compare the number of linking pages behind a domain to distinguish a one-off mention from a deeper relationship.
Target page analysis
See which website pages each domain links to so important landing pages and content assets can be protected and improved.
Follow status distribution
Review followed and nofollowed link patterns across domains as part of a broader authority and quality assessment.
Domain monitoring updates
Keep new, lost, broken, and reviewed domain activity organized in updates that make off-page changes easier to explain.
Broken page counts
Review both broken backlinks and broken pages for a referring domain before deciding whether to repair a destination or investigate the source.
Lost-domain dates
Use the reported lost date to investigate when a referring domain stopped contributing to the link profile.
First-seen domains
Use the first-seen date to distinguish recently discovered referring domains from established sources in the profile.
Domain disavow actions
Select suspicious referring domains for review and send them to the disavow workflow when a manual assessment supports that action.
Referring domain questions.
Understand referring domains, backlink-source diversity, domain-quality signals, and link-profile changes.
What is a referring domain?
A referring domain is a website that links to another website. One referring domain may provide one backlink or many backlinks from different pages.
Are referring domains more important than backlink count?
They answer different questions. Backlink count shows the number of links, while referring domains show how diverse the link sources are. Quality, relevance, placement, and natural link patterns matter more than maximizing either number alone.
What should I review for each referring domain?
Review its relevance, linking pages, target URLs, backlink count, follow status, authority context, spam signals, and whether its links remain available. No single metric should determine the final judgment.
Why do referring domains disappear?
A domain may disappear when links are removed, source pages are deleted, links become unavailable, or data changes during a new crawl. Investigate valuable losses before deciding whether outreach or page recovery is appropriate.