Three sites, three directed links

Fictional teaching examples. No page or image is fetched; no link or ranking result is verified.

  1. A · publisher.example
  2. B · target.example
  3. C · reference.example

Here each of the three named hosts represents a separate site. Reports may group subdomains differently; declare the scope before classifying real URLs.

A → B: one edge, two perspectives

The publisher’s story links out to the target’s atlas. That same edge is incoming to the target. It does not establish a return link from the target to the publisher.

Source page
https://publisher.example/story
Image resource
https://images.example/atlas.svg
Link destination
https://target.example/atlas

Example HTML, shown as text

<a href="https://target.example/atlas"><img src="https://images.example/atlas.svg" alt="Open the accessible transit atlas"></a>
B → B: navigation within the declared site

The atlas links to its own method page. This is internal for both ends under the declared scope. A backlink report may count differently; keep its scope and unit with the record.

Source page
https://target.example/atlas
Link destination
https://target.example/method

Example HTML, shown as text

<a href="https://target.example/method">Read the atlas methodology</a>
B → C: cite an external source

The atlas links to another site’s dataset. It is outbound for the atlas and incoming for the reference site. Adding it does not create an incoming backlink to the atlas.

Source page
https://target.example/atlas
Link destination
https://reference.example/data

Example HTML, shown as text

<a href="https://reference.example/data">Inspect the source dataset</a>