This is perhaps every SEO's least favorite job: backlink auditing. That's not because the work itself is horrible (although it can be tedious on sites with large link Phone Number List footprints), but because it's almost always done when a domain is in trouble. Whether you are reading this article because you are an SEO looking for new strategies or a site owner who received a link-based penalty, I hope you find the methodology below useful. I should note Phone Number List before continuing that I prefer robust datasets, and so I will use four link datasets in the example. They are: Google Search Console Majestic Ahrens Mos.
Although I have paid accounts with all of the above tools (except Search Console, which is free), each offers a way to get the data for free - via a trial account or data free for site owners. There are also other link sources you can use, like Spiff or SEMrush, but the above four Phone Number List combined tend to capture the lion's share of your backlink data. Now let's start... Extract data The first step in the process is to extract data from the sources listed above. Below I will describe the process for each platform. Google Search Console Once logged in, select the Phone Number List property from which you want to download the backlinks. In the left navigation pane, under 'Search traffic',
Click 'Links to your site'. In the Who links the most column , Click the “Download more sample links” and “Download latest links” buttons, then save each CSV to Phone Number List a folder. Downloading backlinks from Search Console Majestic If you don't have one, create an account, as you will need it to export data. If all you want is access to your own site's data (which is what we want here), they'll give you free access. You can find more information about this at The rest of these instructions will follow the paid account process, but are essentially the same. Enter your domain in the search field. Click on the Phone Number List "Backlinks" tab above the results. In the options, make sure you have selected