![]() | Advanced Link Manager User Guide |
The "Gather link details" feature enables the application to collect the following information:
The number of backlinks.
This number is retrieved for each one of your target domains/URLs. If any link is found as linking to one of your target URLs, the referrer will be assigned to that target URL regardless it neither has been a part of search engine results nor has been assigned as a referrer for the target URL prior to the update.
Total number of outbound links (or links leading offsite) for each referrer URL.
The number of outbound links can be useful to show the link relevance. Let's say that you have one referrer with 3 outbound links of which one of them links to you and some another referrer that has 100 outbound links and one of them links to you. The relevance of the first backlink is much higher than the one of the second one due to the high number of links leading offsite from the second referrer.
The "No Follow" status of every backlink.
This is a very important piece of information. The links that have this status set to "Yes" are ignored by the search engines when they crawl that referrer web page, hence it will not be taken into account in search engine ranking calculations. Also this referrer page won't be reported by search engines as linking to your target URL/domain.
The type of your backlink.
This can be either text or image