{"id":43,"date":"2009-09-03T02:56:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T06:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2009-09-03T02:56:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T06:56:44","slug":"thinking-about-number-of-referrers-indication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/thinking-about-number-of-referrers-indication\/43\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking About &#8220;Number of Referrers&#8221; Indication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time I an frustrated with this indication in SheerSEO.<br \/>\nIt shows an estimation of the number of sites linking to your site according to Google and Yahoo.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/seo-software\/features\/historical_referrers.gif\" alt=\"Number or Referrers\" \/><br \/>\nWhile this estimation might be helpful, it is not very accurate and causes a lot of confusion for people that think that this is number of back links. <\/p>\n<p>In about a week I&#8217;ll be adding a new indication to SheerSEO that will show the number of back links according to Yahoo Explorer.<br \/>\nI am thinking about removing the &#8220;Number of Referrers&#8221; Indication once the number of back links indication is in place.<\/p>\n<p>Any thoughts regarding this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time I an frustrated with this indication in SheerSEO. It shows an estimation of the number of sites linking to your site according to Google and Yahoo. While this estimation might be helpful, it is not very accurate and causes a lot of confusion for people that think that this is number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}