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# Domain SEO intelligence: authority, backlinks and traffic

Domain SEO Intelligence returns authority scores, backlink counts and traffic estimates for a domain, all in one call. Use it to size up a competitor, a link prospect or an inbound lead without opening several tools.

## What it tells you

- Several authority scores for the domain, shown side by side so you can compare a site on more than one measure.
- How many backlinks point at the domain (links on other sites that lead to it).
- How many separate referring domains those links come from.
- An estimate of the organic search traffic the domain receives.
- An estimate of how many organic keywords the domain ranks for.
- A risk score and a plain risk level for the domain.

## What you need to provide

One input: the domain you want analyzed, for example "theverge.com".

## What it costs

10 credits per lookup. Live per-product costs are shown on the Billing page in your dashboard.

## How to run it

- In the dashboard: Domain SEO Intelligence
- From your code: POST /v1/domain-seo-intelligence, then see the Developer Hub at app.1lookup.io/developer-hub.

## Good to know

- Traffic and keyword figures are estimates of search performance, not the site's own analytics. Treat them as a way to compare sites, not as the site's real numbers.
- The authority scores each run on their own scale. Compare one domain against another on the same score, rather than comparing two different scores to each other.
- Results are point-in-time. Links get added and dropped and rankings move, so a figure can be different the next time you look.
- If you only need the link picture, Backlink Overview goes deeper on links alone. This product is the broad summary.