Links written report

Run across who links to you the near, your summit-linked pages, and more.

Open the links report

Some notes about the information:

  • Pages on your site are grouped by approved URL. This means that the anchor tags and perhaps some parameters are omitted earlier group.
  • Indistinguishable links are combined. A duplicate link is a link from the same source URL to the same target URL, after removal of all parameters and other normalization. In the link text report, duplicates are based on link text not URL.
  • Tables are express to 1,000 rows, and then information may be truncated in larger or more linked-to sites.
  • Although the report uses the term "site", data is really grouped by root domain in the Links report; protocol (http/https), subdomain (thousand., world wide web) and subdirectories are stripped and grouped together. Therefore, all the following are grouped underinstance.com:
    • instance.com
    • m.example.com
    • example.com/pet_store/
    • https://example.com
    • http://example.com
  • TLDs (summit level domains) are not omitted when grouped and displayed, so the following are NOT identical:
    • example.com
    • example.com.de

  • "External sites" or links are anything exterior of your current property.

  • There are some data differences between this report and the links reports in old Search Console.

This report has the post-obit information:

Top linking domains (Which sites link to me the most?)

See which sites link to you the most.

This written report shows the root domain of sites with the most links to your site, sorted by count of links. Sites are shown by their root domain, with whatsoever subdomain omitted (and so www.example.com would prove as example.com).

If you see a domain listed that is identical to your holding, it is because it represents a subdomain that is omitted in the tabular array. For example, if a link comes from m.example.com, the table entry will existexample.com.

To navigate there

Links report > Peak linking sites tabular array

For more detail

Click the More than link at the lesser of the table for the total list. Click a site in the list to come across your well-nigh linked pages from that site.

Uses for this report

  • Confirm that you recognize the sites listed hither. If you see whatever unknown and possibly spammy sites, you might demand to ask to exist removed or, if all else fails, disavow them to avert having your ranking harmed by known spammy sites.
  • See whether sites that are important to you point to your site. For case, if you have a restaurant website, are you mentioned in food blogs or review sites?

Top linked pages (Which are my top linked pages from other sites?)

See which of your pages are near linked by other sites. Employ this to see if you're getting the recognition that you recollect yous deserve.

To navigate there

Links report > Tiptop linked pages table

For more item

Click theMore link at the bottom of the tabular array for the full list. Select a URL in the list to see the acme sites linking to that page. Sites are shown by their root domain, with any subdomain omitted (so world wide web.example.com would show equally example.com).

Uses for this written report

  • Confirm that your most linked pages are the ones that y'all expect.

Which are my top linked pages from a specific site?

Come across which pages are linked from a given site, sorted by link count.

To navigate there

Links report > External links > Superlative linked pages table

For more detail

Click the More link at the lesser of the table for the full list. Select a URL in the list to meet all links to that page from that site. Sites are shown by their root domain, with any subdomain omitted (so www.case.com would evidence equally instance.com).

Uses for this report

  • If the linking site is skillful, come across which pages are benefiting from that site.
  • If the linking site is spammy, endeavour to go these pages unlinked from this site. For known spam sites, Google typically volition ignore the links, merely you might want to remove or disavow these links.

Superlative linking text (What link text points to my site?)

Encounter which link text is used in sites that point to your site. Simply links from outside your holding are counted.

Duplicates are combined, where a duplicate is a case-insensitive exact match. So "Hello earth" and "How-do-you-do Earth" are considered duplicates, but "Hi earth" and "Hi worlds" are not considered duplicates.

Links with no text (for example, image links) are shown as "(empty)" in the Link Text column on the written report, and as empty rows in the exported data.

Link text is grouped past exact match and sorted by count. Sites are shown by their root domain, with any subdomain omitted (and then www.example.com would show as instance.com).

To navigate in that location

Links report > Top linking text tabular array

For more detail

Click the More link at the lesser of the tabular array for the full listing.

Uses for this report

  • Confirm that the link text is what you await, and not spammy text.
  • Confirm that other sites are describing your site accurately. If non, y'all might need to clarify your site content.

What are the links from a specific site to my page?

See all links from a specific site to a specific page on your site.

To navigate there

Links report > [top linking site] > [URL]

For more than detail

Select a URL in the listing to encounter all links to that page from that site. Sites are shown past their root domain, with any subdomain omitted (so www.example.com would show as example.com).

Top linking pages table

The table includes the following columns:

  • Linking page: The page that has a link to the target page on your site.
  • Target URL (if different): If no value is shown, it means that the link URL on the linking page is identical to the URL of the target folio. If a value is shown, information technology ways that the link URL on the linking page is dissimilar from the URL of the target page. Here are two reasons why the link URL might non exist the target page URL:
    • Your site redirects visitors from the link URL to the target URL. For example, your site might redirect users from instance.com/old_page to example.com/replacement_page. You lot tin test this by visiting the linking folio and clicking this link, and tracking the redirects.
    • Google has decided that the canonical URL for URL on linking page is the target URL. In this case, if you lot visit the linking page and click the link, y'all would (probably) reach the actual link URL. However, if you do a Google search for URL on linking page and click the result, you lot would be redirected yous to the (approved) target URL.

Uses for this report

  • Track down how users get from a given site to a given page.

What are the top sites linking to my page?

Learn which are the top sites linking to a specific page on your site.

To navigate there

Links report > Top target pages > [URL]

For more than detail

Select a URL in the list to run across all links to that page from that site. Sites are shown by their root domain, with whatever subdomain omitted (and then www.case.com would bear witness every bit case.com).

Uses for this report

  • Learn which sites, or which types of sites, are near interested in a specific page. If these sites are important to you, consider expanding your coverage of those topics on your site.

Which of my pages links to my folio?

See which pages on your site link to a specific page.

To navigate there

Links report > Internal links > Top linked pages tabular array > More...

For more than item

Select a URL in the list to see which of your other pages link to it.

Uses for this report

  • Make clean up the traffic period within your site past confirming that users can become from page A to folio B with the fewest clicks.

Exporting report information

Many reports provide an export button to export the study information. Both nautical chart and tabular array information are exported. Values shown as either ~ or - in the report (non available/not a number) will be zeros in the downloaded data.

You tin export your link information as a CSV file or a Google Sheet.

Landing page

Export up to 100,000 rows of data using the Export push. The following data slices are bachelor:

  • Latest links
    Theabout recently discovered links to your site (up to 100,000 rows), sorted by discovery date.
  • More sample links
    Asample of links to your site (up to 100,000 rows), extracted from the full set of links known to Google. This is useful when y'all accept many more than 100,000 pages linking to your site, considering it shows some information truncated past the Latest Links export due to length limits.

Unmarried-table pages

Pages containing a single table offer a download button to consign the unabridged table (upward to 1,000 rows).The tabular array sorting on the page does not affect the exported data.

Known issues and differences with the old report

Data in this report is more than accurate than the quondam Links to your site study. Every bit a result, the values in the new study may be lower, but this does not point a drop in links, merely rather a more accurate and secure style of reporting them.

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