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Semrush Backlinks Update 2021: What’s New?

Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 5:21 am
by sharminakter
Backlink data is a core part of our SEO platform and one of the top queries we’ve heard from our users over the years. So what did we do?

We listened, invested and got to work.

It took over 30,000 hours of engineering and data scientist time, adding over 500 new servers, and setting up 14,000 TB of storage to create a brand new backlink analysis tool.

To give these numbers some perspective... 14,000 terabytes senegal telegram number database could hold up to 238 million hours of music, or about 2,700 years of listening.

And 30,000 hours is equivalent to a team of 10 people working full time for a year and a half .

After eighteen months of tireless work by our engineers, we have moved our backlink system to a completely new architecture.

This architecture works based on a new data collection method that dramatically increases the speed at which we detect and report new links.

To see how much faster we are now, check out the results of the study we conducted a little further down in this article.

In this article we will talk about what's new.

If you want to see the technical details of how we did it , read our how-to article .

Our goal for this update was to create the best backlinks tool possible, which means two things.