Captured referring domains
Inspect the referring-domain and backlink records available from the connected source, with its observation scope attached.
Backlinks Explorer
Know who links to you, who links to rivals, and where your internal authority flows.
Backlinks Explorer maps captured referring-domain and backlink records, and pairs them with the internal link graph from your project crawl. Coverage is labelled by source.
Crawl-native outbound and internal link graphs on Free, imported inbound backlink profiles on Solo and above
Why it is useful
A clear decision, with the supporting evidence close by
Off-site authority is scattered across three disconnected questions, who links to you, who you link out to, and how your own pages link together, and most tools either invent inbound "toxic" verdicts or hide the internal graph entirely. Novaverb keeps all three in one place and never invents an inbound link your data can't prove.
Outbound & internal in one view
Outbound Links and Internal Links show where your own authority leaks out and where it should flow instead.
Map of Content
Your internal-link graph and Schema entities, visualised, find orphan pages and strengthen your topic clusters.
Data and evidence
See the evidence behind each result
Backlinks Explorer reads three things that are usually kept apart: an external backlink index for who links to you, your own crawl for who you link out to, and the same crawl for how your pages link to each other. Each link's status is reported as live, lost or redirected, from the source that observed it.
Available evidence
The evidence available in the active project and the details you provide.
Decision support
Backlinks Explorer maps captured referring-domain and backlink records, and pairs them with the internal link graph from your project crawl. Coverage is labelled by source.
How to read this result
This result names the project evidence, scope and observation window used to produce it.
Core capabilities
What you can do with Backlinks Explorer
You get the inbound profile with referring domains and Domain Rating, anchor text categorised as brand, naked URL, generic, descriptive or empty, and the outbound and internal link graph joined to crawl status, so a link pointing at a 4xx or a noindex page is visible as a problem rather than counted as a link.
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Inbound backlink profile
Import a backlink CSV or run an on-demand refresh to build a project-scoped inventory of every inbound-link row returned by the connected source, including referring domain, anchor, link type, Domain Rating and live/lost/redirect status. Each target page is joined to your crawl so you can see whether the authority lands on a healthy URL or is wasted on a broken or noindex page. Inbound links are never inferred from your crawl, so with no source connected the tables stay honestly empty.
- Referring domains + Domain Rating (0-100)
- Anchor mix: brand / naked-URL / generic / descriptive
- Live / lost / redirect status
- Target-page health (broken / noindex)
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Outbound and internal link graph
The crawl-native twin views map every external site your pages link out to and every internal edge between your own pages, 100% observable from your own crawl with no paid index needed. See linked domains, outgoing anchors and insecure http:// destinations, plus your most-linked pages and internal anchor quality. High internal counts are honestly noted as usually driven by site-wide navigation, not editorial links.
- Linked external domains + insecure http:// flag
- Outgoing anchors and destinations
- Most-linked internal pages
- Internal anchor distribution
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Map of Content fix queue
The internal-link graph becomes a ranked do-this-next queue: orphan and weak pages under three inbound internal links, links pointing at broken targets, pages four or more clicks deep, and generic or over-repeated anchors. Weak pages get a concrete link suggestion from a semantically related page or the strongest hub in the same folder. Signals it cannot yet measure, link position and link equity, are shown as insufficient, never green by absence.
- Orphan / weak / deep pages
- Broken internal link targets
- Generic and over-repeated anchors
- Suggested source page per weak URL
How the work moves
From available evidence to a reviewable next action
Connect a source, crawl your site, work the inbound, outbound and internal tabs in turn, then fix and export. Because the link graph is joined to the crawl, fixing a target page updates the finding on the next crawl instead of requiring the list to be rebuilt by hand.
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Connect a source
Import a backlink CSV (source and target URL required) or run an on-demand refresh to pull a live backlink profile for your domain.
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Crawl your site
A site crawl populates the outgoing and internal link graphs and lets inbound targets be matched to real page health.
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Work the tabs
Move through Backlinks, Referring Domains, Target Pages, Anchors and New & Lost to judge quality, then open Risk Review for evidence-based reclaim and review candidates.
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Fix and export
Follow the Map of Content fix queue to strengthen weak pages, then export any view to CSV or a full Obsidian vault of your link graph.
Built around real work
Useful for teams who need to move from evidence to delivery
Link-building lead
Import a fresh backlink export and instantly see referring-domain quality, dofollow mix and which recent losses are worth reclaiming.
Technical SEO
Find external authority landing on broken or noindex pages, plus orphan and weak internal pages that need links before they can rank.
Content strategist
Use the Map of Content suggestions to connect a thin page to the closest existing hub with a descriptive anchor.
Connected outcomes
Continue from this product into a complete customer workflow
Discover & Diagnose
Why Can't Search Engines Find Some of My Pages?
Pages become hard to discover when internal links, crawl depth, sitemaps or indexability signals leave no clear path.
Open workflowFix & Improve
Why Do Important Pages Have No Internal Links?
Important pages become isolated when navigation, hubs and contextual links fail to connect a real source URL to the target.
Open workflowResources
Read more about Backlinks Explorer
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Guides
Step-by-step walkthroughs, five minutes each.
Definitions
What the terms on this page actually mean.
Try it free
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Connected products
Keep the work moving without losing the source
Frequently asked questions
Backlinks Explorer FAQ
Clear answers about data, availability and how the product fits into the wider workflow.
Where do the inbound backlinks come from?
You either import a CSV (source and target URL are the only required columns) or run an on-demand refresh that pulls a live backlink profile for your domain. A crawl alone cannot discover inbound links, so nothing is fabricated.
Why is my backlinks table empty?
No backlink source is connected yet. The referring-domains and backlinks tables stay empty until you import a file or run a refresh, Novaverb will not invent inbound links from crawl data.
What is the difference between outgoing and internal links?
Outbound Links maps the external sites your pages link out to; Internal Links and Map of Content map how your own pages link to each other. Both are read straight from your crawl.
Can I export the link graph?
Yes. Every table exports to CSV, and Map of Content can export a full Obsidian vault of your pages with their inbound and outbound links.
Research & Discovery
Put Backlinks Explorer to work on your own evidence.
Start with a real project, keep unavailable data visible and follow the connected workflow when the result is ready for action.