Research guides
Find similar websites and check why they match
Find similar websites using link patterns, search overlap and current pages. Use a practical worksheet to keep relevant candidates.
The LinkCensus guides
Understand the neighborhood
Field guides to shared linkers, related websites, and the limits of link graph evidence.
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Concepts
Co-citation in SEO: what shared linkers show
Understand co-citation, shared linking domains and retained overlap. See a worked example and the limits of similarity scores.
Data and methods
Common Crawl web graph: a guide to dated link data
Read a Common Crawl web graph correctly: nodes, links, host and domain scope, release dates and the limits of product editions.
Concepts
Referring domains vs backlinks: count the right thing
Compare referring domains and backlinks with a worked count worksheet. Understand subdomains, duplicate links, dates and tool differences.
Research guides
Website competitor research: build a useful shortlist
Use website competitor research to separate business rivals, search competitors and link neighbors. Includes a practical evidence worksheet.
Research guides
Clean source hosts before grouping link data
A normalization walkthrough for source URLs, hostnames and private suffixes with a before-and-after worksheet and an exception log.
Research guides
How to verify the company behind a website
Use registration data and current site pages to verify who operates a website. A dated evidence worksheet shows where ownership remains unresolved.
Research guides
Compare web graph snapshots without inventing growth
A decision worksheet for comparing dated web graph editions while accounting for crawl windows, coverage, ranking changes and retained evidence.
Research guides
Use the LinkCensus MCP server to research related websites
Set up local LinkCensus MCP tools, pin a graph edition, and evaluate related-domain candidates without mistaking link similarity for competition.
Research guides
Plan a small link-neighborhood study with 5 attempts
Budget 5 LinkCensus neighborhood attempts, choose seeds and filters, preserve graph evidence, and verify candidates before drawing business conclusions.