SEO & DIGITAL MARKETING

Backlink Analysis

Analyze competitor backlink profiles, discover link building opportunities, and monitor your link acquisition efforts.

Backlinks Drive Rankings

Quality backlinks remain one of the most important ranking factors. Understanding your competitors' link profiles reveals opportunities to improve your own SEO performance.

Premium backlink tools are expensive and often have API limitations. You need flexible link data extraction that works at scale.

WebScraping.AI Solution

  • Link Discovery: Find where competitors get their backlinks
  • Page Analysis: Extract outbound links and anchor text from any page
  • Opportunity Finding: Identify link-worthy content and prospects
  • AI Insights: Get recommendations on link building strategies

Link Analysis Features

Comprehensive backlink intelligence

Link Extraction

Extract all outbound links, anchor text, and link attributes from pages.

Competitor Analysis

Analyze competitor pages to find their link sources.

Prospect Discovery

Find resource pages, directories, and link opportunities.

Content Analysis

Analyze what content earns the most links.

Code Examples

Extract backlink data

const axios = require('axios');

const API_KEY = 'your_api_key';

// Extract all outbound links from a page
const pageUrl = 'https://industry-blog.com/best-tools-2024';
const linkData = await axios.get('https://api.webscraping.ai/ai/fields', {
  params: {
    api_key: API_KEY,
    url: pageUrl,
    fields: JSON.stringify({
      page_title: 'Page title',
      outbound_links: 'Array of all external links with URL and anchor text',
      dofollow_links: 'External links that are dofollow',
      nofollow_links: 'External links that are nofollow',
      link_categories: 'Categorize the linked sites (tools, resources, competitors)',
      author: 'Article author if shown',
      publish_date: 'Publication date'
    })
  }
});

console.log(linkData.data);
// {
//   "page_title": "Best Marketing Tools for 2024",
//   "outbound_links": [
//     {"url": "https://tool1.com", "anchor": "Tool One"},
//     {"url": "https://tool2.com", "anchor": "another great option"}
//   ],
//   "dofollow_links": ["https://tool1.com", "https://tool2.com"],
//   "nofollow_links": ["https://affiliate-link.com"],
//   "link_categories": {
//     "tools": ["tool1.com", "tool2.com"],
//     "resources": ["resource-site.com"]
//   },
//   "author": "Jane Smith",
//   "publish_date": "2024-01-15"
// }

// Analyze link building opportunities
const analysis = await axios.get('https://api.webscraping.ai/ai/question', {
  params: {
    api_key: API_KEY,
    url: pageUrl,
    question: 'What types of sites does this page link to? What would a site need to be included here? How could I get a link from this page?'
  }
});
curl -G "https://api.webscraping.ai/ai/fields" \
  --data-urlencode "api_key=your_api_key" \
  --data-urlencode "url=https://blog.com/best-tools-2024" \
  --data-urlencode 'fields={"outbound_links":"All external links with anchor text","dofollow_links":"Dofollow links only"}'

# Analyze link opportunities
curl -G "https://api.webscraping.ai/ai/question" \
  --data-urlencode "api_key=your_api_key" \
  --data-urlencode "url=https://blog.com/best-tools-2024" \
  --data-urlencode "question=What would I need to get linked from this page?"

Why Use WebScraping.AI

Any Page: Analyze links from any website or page.
AI Analysis: Get strategic recommendations, not just data.
Flexible Queries: Ask any question about link patterns.
Scale: Analyze hundreds of pages for link opportunities.
Cost Effective: No expensive SEO tool subscriptions needed.

Link Building Use Cases

Competitor Link Analysis

See where competitors get their links

Resource Page Prospecting

Find pages that link to similar content

Broken Link Building

Find broken outbound links to replace

Content Gap Analysis

See what content earns the most links

Related Use Cases

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