How domain vetting works

A domain vetting report checks a domain before you buy it or build on it: its links, its history and whether Google still trusts it. It works for any domain, not only the ones we sell, and ends in a score out of 100 with a verdict — Looks clean, Proceed with care or High risk — and the reasons behind it, worst first.

What a report covers

• Links: referring domains, backlinks, the spam score, how many networks the links come from,

and how the number of linking sites changed over time.

• Anchor texts and the strongest sites linking in — a domain used for link spam shows here.
• Search: the keywords it ranks for, its estimated traffic over two years, and keywords lost.
• Google's index: whether pages of it are in Google now, with examples.
• Its past: what its home page used to be, from the public web archive — spam, a parked page

or a change of language are flagged.

• Registration: the registry's own public record — when it was registered, when it expires,

the registrar and its status. Some registries do not publish this; the report says so.

A part that could not be read is left out of the score and named, never counted as clean.

Prices

Reports are bought as credits that never expire: 1 report $3, 10 reports $19, 50 reports $69 (US dollars; checkout shows your currency, plus any tax). One report uses one credit. Vetting the same domain again within 14 days gives you the report you already have, free. Every aged domain you buy from us comes with 1 free report credit.

How to vet domains

1. Open Visibility → Domain vetting.
2. Enter one domain, or choose Several domains and paste up to 25, one per line.

A bulk run checks you have credits for every new report before it takes any.

3. Choose the search market, then run it. A report usually takes under a minute; for a bulk run

we email you once they are all ready, worst first.

Keep, share and remove reports

Each finished report can be downloaded as a PDF in your language, to send to a client or a partner. Your list can be searched, filtered by verdict, sorted by score and exported as CSV. Removing a report takes it off your list; the credit it used is not returned.

If a report fails

If nothing we pay for could be read, the report is marked failed and its credit goes straight back. Reports are not run while an account is not in good standing; your credits are kept.