{
  "fictional": true,
  "providerRequests": 0,
  "locale": "en",
  "group": "sitewide-backlinks",
  "title": "Sitewide backlinks: count pages, inspect the placement",
  "notice": "Fictional teaching examples. Domains, dates and placements are invented; these are not publisher inventory or live reports.",
  "scope": "Four inspected pages contain links across two exact source hostnames. Three footer copies share one host. The uninspected proposal is excluded; these are not root-domain totals or independent endorsement counts.",
  "cases": [
    {
      "displayedUrl": null,
      "parentId": null,
      "checkedAt": "2026-10-27",
      "linkState": "present",
      "rel": "sponsored",
      "targetUrl": "https://brand.example/research",
      "placement": "footer",
      "provenance": "paid-template",
      "markup": "<footer><a href=\"https://brand.example/research\" rel=\"sponsored\">Research</a></footer>",
      "id": "footer-1",
      "sourceUrl": "https://journal.example/news",
      "title": "Footer: news page",
      "note": "Paid footer on the first inspected page; sponsored is explicit."
    },
    {
      "displayedUrl": null,
      "parentId": null,
      "checkedAt": "2026-10-27",
      "linkState": "present",
      "rel": "sponsored",
      "targetUrl": "https://brand.example/research",
      "placement": "footer",
      "provenance": "paid-template",
      "markup": "<footer><a href=\"https://brand.example/research\" rel=\"sponsored\">Research</a></footer>",
      "id": "footer-2",
      "sourceUrl": "https://journal.example/events",
      "title": "Footer: events page",
      "note": "The same paid template on a second URL. It adds a page, not another host."
    },
    {
      "displayedUrl": null,
      "parentId": null,
      "checkedAt": "2026-10-27",
      "linkState": "present",
      "rel": "sponsored",
      "targetUrl": "https://brand.example/research",
      "placement": "footer",
      "provenance": "paid-template",
      "markup": "<footer><a href=\"https://brand.example/research\" rel=\"sponsored\">Research</a></footer>",
      "id": "footer-3",
      "sourceUrl": "https://journal.example/about",
      "title": "Footer: about page",
      "note": "The third inspected URL repeats the same footer and destination."
    },
    {
      "displayedUrl": null,
      "parentId": null,
      "checkedAt": "2026-10-27",
      "linkState": "present",
      "rel": "",
      "targetUrl": "https://brand.example/research",
      "placement": "body",
      "provenance": "editorial",
      "markup": "<p><a href=\"https://brand.example/research\">Research</a></p>",
      "id": "editorial-reference",
      "sourceUrl": "https://makers.example/review",
      "title": "Contextual reference",
      "note": "A separate host contains a contextual reference; no rel appears in this example."
    },
    {
      "displayedUrl": null,
      "parentId": null,
      "checkedAt": null,
      "linkState": "unknown",
      "rel": null,
      "targetUrl": null,
      "placement": "proposal",
      "provenance": "unknown",
      "markup": "",
      "id": "proposal",
      "sourceUrl": "https://uninspected.example/proposed",
      "title": "Uninspected proposal",
      "note": "This proposed page has not been checked. It contributes no observed page, host or link."
    }
  ],
  "counts": {
    "pages": 4,
    "hosts": 2,
    "links": 4,
    "unknown": 1
  },
  "checklist": [
    "Record exact source and destination before classifying internal or external.",
    "Keep observed page count, exact hosts and coverage scope separate.",
    "Review relevance, payment and actual rel attributes on the template.",
    "After a template change, recheck affected page types and date the result."
  ]
}