Documentation - linked_anchors
Contains the anchor text and the number of outgoing links that have it.
Each request to linked_anchors costs 1 row.
Each result in the response costs 1 row.
Using 'where' costs 5 rows.
Using 'having' costs 5 rows.
• anchors
Column | Type | Where | Having | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
anchor | string | + | + | Anchor text used in at least one outgoing link from the target domain. |
links_internal | int | + | + | Number of internal outgoing links found that are using the anchor text. |
links_external | int | + | + | Number of external outgoing links found that are using the anchor text. |
url_from | string | + | − | URL of the page where the outgoing link is found. |
url_to | string | + | − | URL of the page the outgoing link is pointing to. |
ahrefs_rank | int | + | − | URL Rating of the referring page. |
domain_rating | int | + | − | Domain Rating of the referring domain. |
ip | string | + | − | IP address of the page. |
page_size | int | + | − | Size of the referring page, in bytes. |
encoding | string | + | − | Character encoding of the referring page, for example "utf8" or "iso-8859-1" (Latin-1). |
title | string | + | − | Title of the referring page. |
first_seen | date | + | − | Least recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink. |
last_visited | date | + | − | Most recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink. |
prev_visited | date | + | − | Second to the most recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink. |
original | boolean | + | − | Indicates whether the backlink was present on the referring page when the Ahrefs crawler first visited it. |
link_type | string | + | − | Either "href", "redirect", "frame", "form", "canonical", "rss", or "alternate". |
redirect | int | + | − | For redirected links, the Redirect Code (3XX), zero otherwise. |
nofollow | boolean | + | − | Indicates whether the backlink is NoFollow. |
alt | string | + | − | Alternative text of the image backlink, if exists. |
text_pre | string | + | − | Snippet before the anchor text. |
text_post | string | + | − | Snippet after the anchor text. |
Examples
Request
Response
{ "anchors": [ { "anchor": "", "links_internal": 426907, "links_external": 337056 }, { "anchor": "www.robotstxt.org", "links_internal": 0, "links_external": 7915 }, { "anchor": "Tweets by @ahrefs", "links_internal": 0, "links_external": 424 }, { "anchor": "linkedin", "links_internal": 0, "links_external": 208 } ] }