Links and authority

Links still decide who Google and AI assistants trust. Scout does the research and tells you plainly what each link is worth — you decide and act.

• Where the links come from. Scout reads who links to the businesses already ranking in your market and keeps the sites several of them share — the places your market actually earns links. It adds listicles, niche directories, associations, suppliers, local media and sponsorships it finds by searching, and throws out paid-article networks.
• A verdict with numbers. Every opportunity shows relevance, authority, risk, how much traffic the linking page gets and how many competitors are already there — and a recommendation.
• How to get it. Free (submit a listing), write to them, pay, donate or sponsor, or exchange inside the ScoutRank community. Paid and grey-zone options are marked with their risk.
• You send, Scout drafts. Scout writes the first email from the site's own page; you edit it and send it from your own mailbox.
• Proof it is live. Paste the URL where your link appeared — Scout checks the link is really there, whether it is follow or nofollow and indexable, and re-checks it every month.
• Link map. A graph of your own internal links with our PageRank, orphans and dead ends, so authority flows to your money pages.
• Community exchange. Host a relevant link for another member and earn credits, spend them on your own. A straight one-for-one swap is not allowed — that is the pattern spam updates look for.
• Price. Finding opportunities costs 30 credits; repeat searches in the same market are mostly served from what Scout already knows.