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The table of Internal links seems interesting - a listing of pages on your domain that have links pointing to them from other internal pages. But where I think this section shines is with the external links - Essentially it is a listing of pages within your domain that have links pointing TO THEM from other sites. Not only that, but it is a detailed listing of these external pages along with the date a backlink was last found.

For those of you who are curious exactly how Google calculates the link: data ... this is an eye-opener!

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Nice observation from — the internal-links table and the external/backlink table are different signals and each is useful for different tasks. Google’s official Links report (Search Console) shows both internal and external link summaries and even provides a “Latest links” export (recent discoveries), but it is explicitly a sample and not an exhaustive crawl of every backlink. See Google Search Console Links report for details. (This explains why a “last found” date you see in other tools is rarely identical to what Google shows.)

Expanding on ’s suggestion: use a crawler like Screaming Frog to map internal linking at page level. Screaming Frog’s Inlinks/Outlinks and Link Position exports give anchor text, follow/nofollow, where on the page the link appears, and let you bulk-export every inlink/outlink found. It also supports importing link metrics via APIs (Majestic/Ahrefs/Moz) so you can enrich a crawl with third‑party backlink data.

Third‑party backlink tools (Ahrefs, SEMrush, Majestic, etc.) commonly show “first seen” and “last seen” dates for links. Those timestamps reflect each vendor’s crawler and indexing decisions, so counts and dates will vary between tools — they are signals, not a single ground truth. Ahrefs and SEMrush discuss these date fields and the practical differences between indexes; Majestic keeps Fresh and Historic indexes with preserved first/last seen values.

Quick, practical workflow (apply in this order):

  • Export Google Search Console Links (Latest links / Top linked pages).
  • Crawl the site with Screaming Frog; export All Inlinks / Outlinks and Link Position.
  • Pull backlink exports from one paid index (Ahrefs / SEMrush / Majestic) and join on source/target URLs in a spreadsheet or BI tool.
  • Prioritize: pages with lots of external links but few internal links; pages with many lost links (last‑seen old); sitewide or footer links that dilute anchor relevance.
  • Actions: add internal links from high‑authority pages, fix redirect/canonical problems, reclaim lost links via outreach, and disavow only after careful manual review.

Links for reference: Google Search Console Links report (), Screaming Frog SEO Spider docs (https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/user-guide/tabs/), Screaming Frog tutorial on link position (https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/tutorials/how-to-analyse-link-position/), Ahrefs link-index discussion (https://ahrefs.com/blog/link-index-comparison/), SEMrush Backlinks report manual (https://www.semrush.com/kb/501-backlinks-report-manual).

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You can use paid SEO tools like Screaming Frog to evaluate your site’s link profile.

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