How do I check a website's backlinks?#
Open Backlinks in your SEO project, enter any domain or URL and press Show overview. You get the totals, the referring domains and a 12-month history chart that shows whether the profile is growing or slipping.
Read a link profile
Step 1: Open Backlinks
In your SEO project, open Backlinks under Research. Your site is filled in.Open SEO projectsStep 2: Pick the scope
Domain and subdomains, the domain without subdomains, a subfolder and everything under it, or one exact URL.Step 3: Load the overview
Read the totals and the 12-month history first.Step 4: Open a view
Press Load backlinks, Load referring domains or Load most-linked pages.Step 5: Filter and export
Hide spam, filter by link type and status, sort any column and export the table.
Which backlink reports does Agent Studio include?#
| View | What it shows | Use it to |
|---|---|---|
| Backlinks | Every linking page, where it points, anchor text, link type, link rank and first seen date. | Audit link quality and anchor text mix. |
| Referring domains | Each linking site with domain rank, spam score and an expandable list of its links. | Count the sites that vouch for you. |
| Top pages | Your most-linked pages and how many domains point at each. | Find the content that earns links and make more of it. |
How do I filter out spammy or toxic backlinks?#
Hide spam is on by default and drops links and domains with a spam score of 40 or more, so the profile you read is the one Google weighs. Turn it off to review the spam yourself. Narrow further with Link type (dofollow, nofollow or both), Include terms, Exclude terms and Grouping, which shows one link per linking domain.
How do I find and reclaim lost backlinks?#
Set Link status to lost links. Every row is a site that linked to you once. Reach out, point them at the right page and win the link back. Broken backlinks point at pages that no longer load: redirect those URLs to a live page and the link value comes straight back without a single email.
How do I find link building prospects?#
Run the SEO Studio: Link Prospecting template. Give it a topic, the page you want links to and a competitor. It reads the live Google results for six prospecting searches and the competitor's backlinks, ranks every prospect with the angle to pitch and drafts the outreach, so you start with the sites most likely to say yes.
Turn competitor links into your outreach list
Open Link Prospecting, test it with a dry run, then run it live.
What does a backlink check cost?#
Each view is a priced read from your prepaid credit, and the button shows the price before it runs. You choose Rows per read, so a quick look stays cheap and a full export goes as deep as you need. See plans and credit.
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