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Linked Domains

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GET/v3/site-explorer/linkeddomains

Query parameters

timeoutinteger

A manual timeout duration in seconds.

limitinteger

The number of results to return.

Default:1000
order_bystring

A comma-separated list of columns to order results by, with optional direction. See response schema for valid column identifiers.

Example:field_a,field_b:asc,field_c:desc
wherestring

The filter expression. The following column identifiers are recognized (this differs from the identifiers recognized by the select parameter).

anchor: The clickable words in a link that point to a URL.
type: string

dofollow_linked_domains: The number of unique root domains with dofollow links linked from the linked domain.
type: integer

dofollow_links: The number of links from your target to the linked domain that don’t have the “nofollow” attribute.
type: integer

dofollow_refdomains (5 units): The number of unique domains with dofollow links to the linked domain.
type: integer

domain: A linked domain that has at least one link from your target.
type: string

domain_rating: The strength of a domain's backlink profile compared to the others in our database on a 100-point scale.
type: float

first_seen: The date we first found a link to the linked domain from your target.
type: datetime

is_content: The link was found in the biggest piece of content on the page.
type: boolean

is_dofollow: The link has no special nofollow attribute.
type: boolean

is_nofollow: The link or the referring page has the nofollow attribute set.
type: boolean

is_non_html: The link points to a URL with non-HTML content.
type: boolean

is_root_domain: The domain name is a root domain name.
type: boolean

is_sponsored: The link has the Sponsored attribute set in the referring page HTML.
type: boolean

is_ugc: The link has the User Generated Content attribute set in the referring page HTML.
type: boolean

languages: The languages listed in the referring page metadata or detected by the crawler to appear in the HTML.
type: array(string)

len_url_redirect: The number of redirect chain URLs.
type: integer

link_type: The kind of the backlink.
type: string
enum: "redirect" "frame" "text" "form" "canonical" "alternate" "rss" "image"

linked_domain_traffic (10 units): The linked domain’s estimated monthly organic traffic from search
type: integer

linked_domains: The number of unique root domains linked from the referring page.
type: integer

linked_pages: The number of the domain's pages linked from your target.
type: integer

links_external: The number of external links from the referring page.
type: integer

links_from_target: The number of links to the linked domain from your target.
type: integer

port_source: The network port of the referring page URL.
type: integer

port_target: The network port of the target page URL.
type: integer

positions: The number of keywords that the referring page ranks for in the top 100 positions.
type: integer

powered_by: Web technologies used to build and serve the referring page content.
type: array(string)

refdomains (5 units): The number of unique referring domains linking to the referring page.
type: integer

root_domain_name: The root domain name of the referring domain, not including subdomains.
type: string

snippet_left: The snippet of text appearing just before the link.
type: string

snippet_right: The snippet of text appearing just after the link.
type: string

title: The html title of the referring page.
type: string

traffic_page (10 units): The referring page's estimated monthly organic traffic from search.
type: integer

url_from: The URL of the page containing a link from your target.
type: string

url_redirect: A redirect chain the target URL of the link points to.
type: array(url)

url_redirect_with_target: The target URL of the link with its redirect chain.
type: array(string)

url_to: The URL the outgoing link points to.
type: string

selectstringRequired

A comma-separated list of columns to return. See response schema for valid column identifiers.

protocolstring

The protocol of your target.

Allowed values:bothhttphttps
Default:both
targetstringRequired

The target of the search: a domain or a URL.

modestring

The scope of the search based on the target you entered.

Allowed values:exactprefixdomainsubdomains
Default:subdomains
outputstring

The output format.

Allowed values:jsoncsvxmlphp

Responses

linkeddomainsarray<object>
dofollow_linked_domainsinteger

The number of unique root domains with dofollow links linked from the linked domain.

dofollow_linksinteger

The number of links from your target to the linked domain that don’t have the “nofollow” attribute.

dofollow_refdomainsinteger

(5 units) The number of unique domains with dofollow links to the linked domain.

domainstring

A linked domain that has at least one link from your target.

domain_ratingnumber

The strength of a domain's backlink profile compared to the others in our database on a 100-point scale.

first_seenstring

The date we first found a link to the linked domain from your target.

is_root_domainboolean

The domain name is a root domain name.

linked_domain_trafficinteger

(10 units) The linked domain’s estimated monthly organic traffic from search

linked_pagesinteger

The number of the domain's pages linked from your target.

links_from_targetinteger

The number of links to the linked domain from your target.