Verify and maintain the link profile
Directories silently flip outbound links to nofollow. Unverified listings are assumptions.
Group 3.2.11
Inside this
- Verify every live listing is dofollow1h
Inspect the link; absence of rel="nofollow" or rel="ugc" means it passes equity.
- Log DR and referring domains weekly10m
A single number per week, and count recovered links apart from newly earned ones — repairing a redirect moves the same number as winning a link and means something completely different. If it stalls for a month, something flipped to nofollow.
- Re-verify the whole tracker quarterly45m
Do not edit listings weekly. Do check them four times a year.