Best pages by internal links

API + MCP

GET/v3/site-explorer/pages-by-internal-links

Formerly /best-by-internal-links

Query parameters

timeoutinteger

A manual timeout duration in seconds.

limitinteger

The number of results to return.

Default:1000

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

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

outputstring

The output format.

Allowed values:jsoncsvxmlphp

Responses

pagesarray<object>

canonical_to_targetinteger

The number of inbound canonical links to your target page.

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.

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.

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.

target_redirectstring or null

The target's redirect if any.

title_targetstring or null

The html title of the target page.

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.