# Check your backlinks

> See which sites link to one of your websites, how strong and how spammy those links are, and how the totals change over time.

Source: https://docs.use-mark.com/check-backlinks

**Backlinks** shows who links to one of your own sites. It has its own tab on
the site's page.

## Find the section

1. In the sidebar, select **Analysis** > **Website**. It opens your primary
   site. To switch sites, select the site's name at the top of the page.
2. Select the **Backlinks** tab.

**Overview** also has a short **Backlinks** card: the backlinks and referring
domains totals, how each changed since the capture before, and when it was
last checked. Select **View backlinks** to open the tab. Before the
first capture, the card is one line with an **Open Backlinks** link.

If you haven't added a site yet, add one under **Settings** > **Websites**
first. See [Manage websites](/manage-websites).

## Refresh backlinks

Opening the page is free. It shows the last snapshot you captured. Each press
of **Refresh backlinks** is a paid lookup.

Until the first refresh, the tab says no backlinks are captured yet. Select
**Refresh backlinks**. When it finishes, you'll see "Updated just now." After
that, the date next to the button shows when backlinks were last checked, like
"Last checked on 9/22".

## Read the overview

**Overview** shows the totals for your site. Point at the info icon next to a
total to see what it means.

* **Backlinks**: every link from another site to yours.
* **Referring domains**: how many different sites link to you.
* **Referring pages**: how many different pages on other sites link to you.
* **Rank**: the overall strength of your site's links, 0 to 100. Higher is
  better.
* **Broken backlinks**: links to pages on your site that no longer load.
* **Broken pages**: pages on your site that other sites link to but that no
  longer load.
* **Spam score**: the average spam score across the sites linking to you.

Two charts sit next to it:

* **Backlink growth** plots backlinks and referring domains at each refresh.
  It needs at least two refreshes to draw a line.
* **Links first seen** counts the links in this snapshot by the month they
  were first picked up.

## Backlinks

The **Backlinks** tab lists each link, strongest first:

* **Source**: the site and page the link is on.
* **Target**: the page on your site the link points to.
* **Anchor**: the clickable text of the link.
* **Flags**: shows **Nofollow** when the link asks search engines not to pass
  credit to your page.
* **Link rank**: the strength of this one link, 0 to 100.
* **Domain rank**: the strength of the whole linking site, 0 to 100.
* **Spam**: how likely the linking site is spam, 0 to 100. Under 30 is low
  and shows green, 30 to 59 is medium and shows amber, and 60 and up is high
  and shows red.
* **First seen**: when the link was first found.

Select a column header to sort by it. To narrow the list, type a domain, page,
or anchor text in **Filter**, or pick **Followed only** or **Nofollow only**
under **Links**. The line next to the filters shows "Showing" with how many
links match.

## Top pages

The **Top pages** tab lists the pages on your site that get the most links,
with **Referring domains** and **Best domain rank** for each. **Best domain
rank** is the domain rank of the strongest site linking to that page.