My new domain had exactly one backlink.
I had just launched ainclave.com, ran a backlink report, and got one row back: a .ru redirect page with 44 outbound links and a spam score of 40. It pointed to my homepage with the anchor text "Ainclave.com".
Classic automated domain-scraper stuff.
That result didn't make sense at first. I had added the site to our GitHub organisation profile, several repositories, LinkedIn, and Mastodon. Four places linking to the domain, yet the report showed none of them.
I could have waited for another crawl and assumed the tool was behind. Instead, I checked the links themselves.
