Anchors

API + MCP

GET/v3/site-explorer/anchors

Query parameters

selectstringRequired

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

wherestring

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

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

limitinteger

The number of results to return.

Default:1000

timeoutinteger

A manual timeout duration in seconds.

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

modestring

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

Allowed values:exactprefixdomainsubdomains

Default:subdomains

targetstring (url)Required

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

protocolstring

The protocol of your target.

Allowed values:bothhttphttps

Default:both

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.