When you manually add a backlink to the platform, it doesn't get included in your backlink data until the platform has picked it up as a live backlink.

Instead, manually adding backlinks allows you to keep track of your backlinks. Once the backlink has been picked up, it will contribute to your website's backlink score. The backlink score is a combined score based on two metrics provided by our backlink data supplier, Majestic. These two metrics are trust flow and citation flow, which determine the total value of your website's backlinks.

The higher the number, the better and more authoritative your website is. So, adding more backlinks can help increase this score over time.