{
  "fictional": true,
  "providerRequests": 0,
  "locale": "en",
  "group": "internal-links-vs-backlinks",
  "title": "Three sites, three directed links",
  "notice": "Fictional teaching examples. No page or image is fetched; no link or ranking result is verified.",
  "scope": "Here each of the three named hosts represents a separate site. Reports may group subdomains differently; declare the scope before classifying real URLs.",
  "cases": [
    {
      "id": "publisher-to-target",
      "title": "A → B: one edge, two perspectives",
      "facts": "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.",
      "sourceUrl": "https://publisher.example/story",
      "targetUrl": "https://target.example/atlas",
      "imageUrl": "https://images.example/atlas.svg",
      "alt": "Open the accessible transit atlas",
      "linkText": "",
      "nameSource": "alt",
      "direction": "external",
      "sourcePerspective": "outbound",
      "targetPerspective": "incoming",
      "markup": "<a href=\"https://target.example/atlas\"><img src=\"https://images.example/atlas.svg\" alt=\"Open the accessible transit atlas\"></a>"
    },
    {
      "id": "target-internal",
      "title": "B → B: navigation within the declared site",
      "facts": "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.",
      "sourceUrl": "https://target.example/atlas",
      "targetUrl": "https://target.example/method",
      "imageUrl": null,
      "alt": null,
      "linkText": "Read the atlas methodology",
      "nameSource": "text",
      "direction": "internal",
      "sourcePerspective": "internal",
      "targetPerspective": "internal",
      "markup": "<a href=\"https://target.example/method\">Read the atlas methodology</a>"
    },
    {
      "id": "target-to-reference",
      "title": "B → C: cite an external source",
      "facts": "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.",
      "sourceUrl": "https://target.example/atlas",
      "targetUrl": "https://reference.example/data",
      "imageUrl": null,
      "alt": null,
      "linkText": "Inspect the source dataset",
      "nameSource": "text",
      "direction": "external",
      "sourcePerspective": "outbound",
      "targetPerspective": "incoming",
      "markup": "<a href=\"https://reference.example/data\">Inspect the source dataset</a>"
    }
  ],
  "resourceBrief": null
}