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Identify, monitor, and control your backlinks the way you want it
Monitoring Backlinks
To start monitoring backlinks for a specific website or URL, you have to first enable it. To do that, click on the "Backlinks" in the sidebar and proceed by clicking on the "Enable Backlinks" button. Backlink Settings Once you enable your backlinks, you can customize your settings: ![](https:/
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Backlinks Metrics
Backlinks Metrics Below you can see the explanation of metrics used in backlinks settings and backlinks filter and column: 1. Backlinks Settings Backlinks Discovery - Toggle off to disable backlinks discovery for your website. Ignore Domains - Insert domains to ignore the ones you wouldn't like to get backlinks from. Backlinks pre-filter - Set a filter to filter out your spam backlinks before they appear in your account. 2. Backlink Diversity Referring Domains -
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Disavowing Backlinks
In the midst of monitoring backlinks, you would come across links that you would want to disavow. Here's how to disavow backlinks: Filter these backlinks into a preferred list that you would want to disavow. One of the ways is to filter the backlinks to show only "not present" and "dead" links. If so, you can filter them in this way: Select "Status" as "Not Present", Select "AND" or "OR" depending if you require these link to match both criteria, or only either one, Select "S
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FAQ: Backlinks
1. I would like to disable backlink discovery on certain profiles, how can I do that? Nightwatch has a great feature where you can ignore the domains you wouldn't like to get backlinks from. All you need to do is to click on your website, go to its settings, and under the backlinks, tab add those domains to 'ignore domains' field. After that, you would need to manually delete the backlinks from the list by filtering them out by domain name and delete them in a batch. There is much mor
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Use Case: How can I view the number of backlinks acquired under a certain timeframe?
Nightwatch can help you view backlinks from a certain time frame of your preference. This will allow you to have better visibility on all backlinks acquired or added on a specific day, week, and even year, so that you can observe or analyze the number of backlinks in relation to the impact it had on your website within that specific timeframe. Here's how you can start viewing backlinks acquired under a certain timeframe: 