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SignalForge Technical Documentation

Comprehensive integration guides, mathematical scoring specifications, and data provider API references.

Getting Started with SignalForge

Platform Architecture Overview

Understanding the separation between customer telemetry, licensed SERP indexers, and synthetic modeling.

Creating Your First Project

Configuring primary domain verification, target countries, and language locales.

Understanding Roles & Permissions

Owner, Admin, Analyst, and Viewer capabilities in enterprise workspaces.

Data Provider Adapters

Google Search Console (OAuth 2.0)

Step-by-step setup to authorize verified click and impression telemetry.

Google Analytics 4 Measurement Protocol

Correlating organic SERP impressions with downstream session conversions.

DataForSEO & SerpAPI Index Gateways

Configuring commercial API credentials for high-throughput SERP monitoring.

Polite Crawler User-Agent Specs

Verifying our SignalForgeBot User-Agent and verifying robots.txt syntax.

Proprietary Scoring Engines

SignalForge Authority Index (SFAI)

Mathematical formula and logarithmic weighting of link graphs and domain trust.

Discovery Velocity Score (DVS)

Tracking net acceleration of SERP real estate acquisition and AI overview wins.

AI Citation Share (AICS)

How generative answer engine prominence is sampled and quantified.

Technical Health Quotient (THQ)

Deduction weights for Core Web Vitals, 404s, and canonical integrity.

Example: SignalForge robots.txt Polite Crawler HeaderRFC 9309 Compliant
# User-agent identification
User-Agent: SignalForgeBot/1.0 (+https://signalforge.io/bot; security@signalforge.io)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br

# Crawl behavior contract:
# 1. Strictly observes 'Disallow' directives
# 2. Honors 'Crawl-delay' rates
# 3. Maximum concurrency: 2 requests/sec per origin domain