Anchors

API + MCP

GET/v3/site-explorer/anchors

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).

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

targetstring (url)Required

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

historystring

A time frame to add lost backlinks to the report. Choose between live (no history), since:<date> (history since a specified date), and all_time (full history). The date should be in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Default:all_time

outputstring

The output format.

Allowed values:jsoncsvxmlphp

Responses

anchorsarray<object>

anchorstring

The clickable words in a link that point to a URL.

dofollow_linksinteger

The number of links with a given anchor to your target that don’t have the “nofollow” attribute.

first_seenstring (date-time)

The date we first found a link with a given anchor to your target.

is_spamboolean

Indicates whether the backlink comes from a known spammy domain.

last_seenstring (date-time) or null

The date we discovered the last backlink with a given anchor was lost.

links_to_targetinteger

The number of inbound backlinks your target has with a given anchor.

lost_linksinteger

The number of backlinks with a given anchor lost during the selected time period.

new_linksinteger

The number of new backlinks with a given anchor found during the selected time period.

refdomainsinteger

(5 units) The number of unique domains linking to your target with a given anchor.

refpagesinteger

The number of pages containing a link with a given anchor to your target.

top_domain_ratingnumber (float)

The highest Domain Rating (DR) counted out of all referring domains. DR shows the strength of a website’s backlink profile compared to the others in our database on a 100-point scale.