Free Link Velocity Calculator

Choose the age range that describes your website. You can also add your website URL for campaign context.

Age can help you describe your starting position, but it does not establish a Google-approved number of links. A new website with useful research may attract substantial editorial interest; an older website can still have weak content or an unsuitable campaign.

Add the current number of unique domains linking to your website. If available, add your total backlink count, estimated organic traffic range, Domain Authority or Domain Rating.

Keep these measures separate. One publisher can produce multiple backlinks while adding only one referring domain. DA and DR are different third-party metrics, and neither is a Google score. The optional DA and DR fields provide context rather than directly setting the planning range.

If you have historical data, select a 30-, 60-, 90- or 180-day period and enter the referring domains gained and lost during that period.

Use the same provider, scope and dates for both figures. A domain-wide report including subdomains should not be mixed with an exact-page report or a report that excludes them. A longer period can make a short burst easier to interpret, although it can also hide recent changes worth reviewing separately.

If you do not know your history, leave that option unselected. Unknown losses should not be entered as zero simply to complete the form.

Enter referring-domain counts for up to five relevant competitors. Choose businesses or pages that match the scope of your campaign and take the figures from a consistent source.

The median provides count context. It does not tell you how many links you must acquire to outrank those competitors. Their content, audience, source quality, internal links and technical condition may differ considerably from yours.

Select how many pages the campaign will support. Set the priority for homepage, commercial, product, informational and local pages.

A useful priority reflects the audience and the source. A product comparison may support a commercial page; original research may suit an informational resource. Let the editorial context determine the destination instead of allocating every placement to the same URL.

Select a 3-, 6-, 12-, 18- or 24-month planning horizon. This is the period you want to organize and review, not a promise that a keyword will reach a particular position within that time.

Choose a conservative, balanced or growth-focused planning profile. Add monthly capacity if you know how many qualified opportunities your team can realistically support.

Include prospect review, writing, editing, approvals and publisher lead times when assessing capacity. Ten placements on publishers that already link to you do not necessarily mean ten new referring domains.

Select the methods relevant to your brief, such as guest posting, blogger outreach, digital PR, resource links, partnerships or organic editorial coverage. Enter a monthly budget if you want spending context alongside the plan.

The budget calculation is an arithmetic planning aid. It does not fetch a publisher quote or reserve a placement.

The baseline summarizes the history you supply so you can see your recent referring-domain gains in monthly terms. Read it alongside losses and the length of the reporting window.

An average can hide an unusual month. Record launches, publicity, migrations and provider changes so you can explain a movement before turning it into a recurring delivery target.

New sources and retained growth are different measures. A campaign can add referring domains while losing others, leaving a smaller net increase than the headline delivery count suggests.

The report presents the planning range alongside estimated net growth after the observed losses. Compare both with what your team can support, and investigate loss patterns before simply increasing the acquisition budget.

Where competitor inputs are available, review the median, your current coverage and the numerical gap. Treat these as a comparison of supplied counts.

A raw gap projection describes what happens under the stated rate assumptions. It does not measure a competitor’s full authority, predict equal ranking performance or account automatically for future competitor growth.

Read the explanation behind the range. Missing history, incomplete competitor context or limited capacity can make a plan less informative.

The confidence label describes the information supporting the plan. It is not a statistically calibrated probability of ranking success.

Use the month-by-month schedule to organize activity and review evidence. Early delivery should establish whether the sources, content and follow-up process meet the brief. Later activity should change when the evidence supports a change.

A steady planning range can be appropriate. The campaign does not need an automatic increase every month.

Use your chosen priorities to review which pages receive attention and which campaign methods suit them. Anchor wording should describe the destination naturally in the surrounding article.

Page-distribution ranges and anchor categories are planning guidance. They do not define universal percentages for a safe backlink profile.

Review the implied budget per planned opportunity, refine the inputs if necessary and use the print option to keep a copy of the plan. Your browser may offer Save as PDF through its print dialog.

After a successful current calculation, use the CSV or JSON buttons to save the plan with its inputs and assumptions, when local downloads are enabled. CSV contains flattened report fields labeled by key and path; JSON keeps the full structured plan. The downloads are created in your browser from the server-returned calculation.

Publisher pricing, content-writing costs and the final service quote need a separate review.

A competitor’s current count provides a snapshot. For historical comparisons, use the Competitor Link Velocity Analyzer when its supported data source is configured. Keep provider discovery dates separate from the dates publishers actually created the links.

For a specific source page that should link to you, use the Backlink Monitor & Known-Link Checker. It checks a supplied source-to-target relationship; it does not discover your full backlink profile. A blocked or incomplete check requires follow-up before concluding that a link was removed.

Use the Guest Post Pricing Calculator to review estimates from comparable inventory cohorts. Small samples and broader matching filters affect confidence. Writing costs and final quotes are separate from the estimated placement range.

Use the Guest Post Site Finder to explore catalogue matches against your audience, niche, market and budget preferences. A fit ranking helps organize review; it is not a publisher endorsement or a Google score.

Our guide to choosing guest posting sites explains the editorial and audience questions to consider before selecting a publisher.

The Anchor Text Optimizer & Analyzer helps you review supplied anchor wording and context. Use it to improve clarity and relevance without treating anchor percentages as universal safety rules.

Use the Guest Post Campaign Management Checklist to organize target pages, publisher review, content approvals, live-link evidence and follow-up.