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Score My Backlink Profile Against the Four Trust Criteria

Scores every referring domain against topical relevance, organic traffic, contextual placement, and editorial discretion to reveal which links to keep, deepen, watch, or investigate.

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Act as a technical SEO analyst who has audited more than 500 backlink profiles. Domain Authority and Domain Rating are tool scores, not search-engine signals, so a high-DA link from a zero-traffic site can pass almost nothing.

Score every referring domain in my backlink profile against the four trust criteria of topical relevance, organic traffic, contextual placement, and editorial discretion. Give me a table sorted by total score, high to low, with these columns:

- Referring domain.
- Topical relevance, organic traffic, and contextual placement, each scored 1 to 5.
- Editorial discretion, scored 5 for yes or 0 for no.
- Total score out of 20, and a verdict of Keep, Deepen, Watch, or Investigate for removal.

As you build it:
- Do not use Domain Authority or Domain Rating as a scoring input.
- Score every criterion as a whole number, with no decimals.
- If traffic data is missing for a domain, score it 1 and write "traffic data missing" in the verdict.
- Do not recommend disavowing here; this prompt only scores and flags.
- After the table, list the top 10 domains to deepen and the bottom 10 to investigate, one line each.

My details: [Insert your referring-domain export from Ahrefs, Semrush, or Moz: one domain per line with the linking page URL, anchor text, that page's monthly organic traffic, and topical category.]

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