Hasnain Mehdi

Relevant experience

Hasnain works in search: technical and on-page SEO, content publishing, and the off-page work that produced this tool. WebDiagnosis is the third of those turned into software, and it exists because the qualification step was the one part of a link campaign that nothing on the market did well and everybody did by hand.

Alongside WebDiagnosis he runs SEO Maxing, an SEO practice, and operates content sites of his own. The editorial and Search Console process this site publishes under, one page per real question, measured against landing-page and query data rather than site totals, came out of running those sites rather than out of a course.

Why WebDiagnosis exists

A purchased or exported prospect list arrives, and before anything useful can happen somebody opens every URL, scrolls to the bottom, looks for a comment form, views source to see what the existing comment links carry, notes the Domain Rating, and decides. Two to four minutes a page when nothing goes wrong. On a thousand-row list that is most of a working week, and most of it returns a no.

The judgement at the end still needs a person. The reading that gets you to it does not. That is the whole product.

The problem it actually solves

Domain-level metrics describe a domain, and whether a comment can be left is a property of one page and one template. The 1,001-row run published here found that not one of the 285 rows at Ahrefs DR 50 or above was among the 37 that could carry a followed comment link. Sorting that list by Domain Rating ordered it exactly backwards. That is the finding the tool is built around, and it is not flattering to the metric most of the industry sorts on.

How the evidence is handled

Every check reports what it read. Where there was nothing to read it reports Unknown rather than substituting a platform default, because an assumption in a column that looks like an observation cannot be told apart from one afterwards. Every published percentage carries its denominator, its date and its limitation. When a figure turns out to be wrong it is withdrawn on the page with the date of the change, which has already happened once on this site.

If a number here is wrong, or a field produced a result you can show is incorrect, write to support@webdiagnosis.net.