Crawl / Technical Safety: 20 points
Indexability Basics
Checks homepage status, robots.txt blocking, noindex headers/tags, title, meta description, H1, canonical, and structured data.
Score Explanation - v1.7.0
How the SEO Readiness Score Is Calculated
A practical 0-100 backlink prospect score for link builders. It checks observable crawl, freshness, Google discovery, spam-risk, indexed-footprint, and link-treatment signals before outreach.
Current score model
7 Weighted Signals, 100 Points
The score is directional. It helps you decide whether a backlink prospect is excellent, good, needs review, or should be avoided.
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Crawl / Technical Safety: 20 points
25
Google Discovery: 25 points
15
Sitemap Freshness: 15 points
10
Content Activity: 10 points
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Indexed Footprint: 10 points
15
Sample-Page Link Treatment: 15 points
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Spam Safety: 5 points
Signals in depth
What Each Signal Means
Google Discovery: 25 points
Recent Google Evidence
Supported Google.com site searches can provide the newest indexed-page evidence. Without Google evidence, the score is more conservative.
Sitemap Freshness: 15 points
Discovery Infrastructure
Checks common sitemap paths and robots.txt sitemap references. Working sitemap/feed endpoints are cached for faster rescans.
Content Activity: 10 points
Publishing Recency
Uses RSS/Atom dates when found, or visible homepage content dates as a fallback for sites without feeds.
Indexed Footprint: 10 points
Visible Google Footprint
Uses visible Google result count when available. This is a free proxy only, not traffic, DA, or DR.
Sample-Page Link Treatment: 15 points
Follow / Nofollow Treatment
Checks the current page or a Google-derived sample page for external follow/nofollow treatment.
Spam Safety: 5 points
Risk Flags
Flags risky TLDs, robots/noindex blockers, stale signals, deep subdomains, and suspicious link treatment.
Important
Normal Scan vs. Google Check
A normal scan checks the site directly. That is enough for a quick first pass, but it cannot prove when Google last indexed the site. The Google button opens a supported Google.com site search so the extension can read visible indexing evidence and improve confidence.
Best workflow
1
Scan the site
Use this for a fast basic score.
2
Run Google check
Adds recent indexed-page evidence when available.
3
Use Link Check after placement
Verify the exact page, URL, anchor, placement, follow/nofollow, and indexability after the backlink is live.
Limitations
What It Does Not Measure
No DA, DR, traffic, ranking guarantees, paid SEO APIs, or full backlink database. It does not replace Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, or Search Console. It also does not crawl every page on very large sites, and Google evidence can vary.
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