Best pages by backlinks

API + MCP

GET/v3/site-explorer/pages-by-backlinks

Formerly /best-by-external-links

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 column to order results by. See the response schema for valid column identifiers, except for http_code_target, languages_target, last_visited_target, powered_by_target, target_redirect, title_target, url_rating_target, which are not supported in order_by for this endpoint.

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

pagesarray<object>

dofollow_to_targetinteger

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

first_seen_linkstring (date-time)

The date we first found a link to your target.

http_code_targetinteger or null

The return code from HTTP protocol returned during the target page crawl.

is_spamboolean

Indicates whether the backlink comes from a known spammy domain.

languages_targetarray<string>

The languages listed in the target page metadata or detected by the crawler to appear in the HTML.

last_seenstring (date-time) or null

The date your target page lost its last live link.

last_visited_sourcestring (date-time)

The date we last verified a live link to your target page.

last_visited_targetstring (date-time) or null

The date we last crawled your target page.

links_to_targetinteger

The number of inbound backlinks the target page has.

lost_links_to_targetinteger

The number of backlinks lost during the selected time period.

new_links_to_targetinteger

The number of new backlinks found during the selected time period.

nofollow_to_targetinteger

The number of links to your target page that have the “nofollow” attribute.

powered_by_targetarray<string>

Web technologies used to build and serve the target page content.

redirects_to_targetinteger

The number of inbound redirects to your target page.

refdomains_targetinteger

(5 units) The number of unique referring domains linking to the target page.

target_redirectstring or null

The target's redirect if any.

title_targetstring or null

The html title of the target page.

top_domain_rating_sourcenumber (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.

url_rating_targetnumber (float) or null

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

url_tostring (url)

The URL the backlink points to.

url_to_plainstring

The target page URL optimized for use as a filter.