How do crawlers know what backlinks I have?

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bitanga

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• Sep 21, 2022

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How do crawlers (Ahrefs, SEMRush etc) know what backlinks are pointing to my site?

Let's say I have SiteA and SiteB. SiteA is linking to SiteB. Can a crawler only crawl SiteB and know that SiteA is linking to it, or does it have to crawl both in order to establish this?

 

Steptoe

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• Sep 21, 2022

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They will need to crawl whichever site is giving the link, so in this case SiteA

 

Danny Crypto

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SITE A

 

Monsterer

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Once the post link is indexed it automatically crawls all of them so it depend on the index rate and the sitemap