Eleven posts so far, each built from six years of client campaigns and the numbers I could check. Newest first: Anthropic now marks every Claude model released from 2 August 2026. What the watermark is, what a detection hit proves, and what the attack research says about removing it.
Five sites rank for "solitaire" on backlink profiles that are almost entirely off-topic. Fresh September 2026 referring-domain data, what Google's spam policy targets, and a framework for when relevance beats authority.
The real numbers behind ChatGPT citations, pulled from Ahrefs, SparkToro, and my own DataForSEO check on jansuski.com's zero AI mentions, plus a neutral read on the case for AI visibility needing its own playbook.
Anthropic marks every Claude model released from 2 August 2026. What the mark is, which output carries it, what a detection hit proves, and what the published attack research says about removing it.
Editorial citations search engines still trust most. What makes a backlink profile look natural, and the real work behind building one, against the shortcut of faking it.
Domain authority, referral traffic, faster indexing, and trust. The four real benefits backlinks provide, and what earns them versus what pads a report.
Domain rating gets all the attention, but editorial context, placement, and topical relevance decide if a backlink moves anything.
500 links from a single domain still count as one referring domain. Why total backlinks and referring domains answer different questions, and only one correlates with rankings.
There's no fixed number. The link gap process I use to work out how many backlinks a specific page needs, with real numbers from client campaigns.
Six years of backlink outreach campaigns for tech and SaaS clients: guest posting, digital PR, link exchange, and the personalization that moves response rates.
The competitor backlink process from six years of client work, step by step: picking the right competitors, reading the gap, and turning it into links.
Six years of daily Surfer SEO use, told by the brother of two of its co-founders: what the content editor, Audit, Topical Map, and AI visibility tools do, and who should skip it.
KD only measures the backlinks on pages currently ranking. It misses domain authority, historical stability, and the one outlier that tells you a SERP is winnable.
A high DR number on a spreadsheet means nothing if the page it sits on is orphaned, botted, or dead. The checklist I run before I trust any link report.