Backrefs Vs Ahrefs Salt

Starting with a Personal Confession I have been doing SEO work for over a decade, and I still remember the first time I ran a backlink audit with a free tool that showed me a list of domains linking to my site. The numbers looked great. But when I tried to actually use that data for link building, I realized the tool had no context about link quality, anchor text distribution, or whether those domains were even indexed by Google. That experience pushed me to explore more s