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Links from other websites to yours help you rank in Google. When you earn one, say a food blog writes about you or a directory lists your shop, record it in the Backlink Tracker. You keep one list of every link you worked for, what page it points to, and how strong the linking site is. This guide logs a guest article that links to Northwind’s wholesale page. Click Marketing in the left rail, then the SEO Analysis card, then Manual Tools at the top. Click Launch Backlink Tracker.
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Click Add Backlink

Click Add Backlink at the top right of the list.
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Describe the link

  • URL: the page on the other website that has the link. Title is its name, for your list.
  • Target URL: the page on your site it links to. Target Anchor: the words the link uses.
  • Link Type: what kind of link it is, such as a guest article or a directory listing. Status and Date Published say whether it’s live yet.
Page Authority and Domain Authority show how strong the linking page and site are, from 0 to 100. Hiveku fills them in when it can. Add any Notes, such as who you talked to.
Add Backlink: URL https://www.example.com/portland-coffee-guide, Title Portland coffee guide, Target URL https://www.northwindroasters.com/wholesale and Target Anchor Northwind wholesale coffee, outlined; Link Type Guest article, Status Published and Date Published, outlined; Domain Authority 90, Scores filled in from our link data; Notes; and Add Backlink, outlined

A guest article that links to the wholesale page

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Save it

Click Add Backlink. The link is added to the list, and the counts and chart above it go up.
The Published list, Showing 1 of 1 Rows: Portland coffee guide, linking to northwindroasters.com with Northwind wholesale coffee, Guest article, Domain Authority 90, and the note, with edit and delete buttons; the row outlined

The link in the list

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Good to know

  • Not live yet? Set Status to Unpublished while you wait for a site to post it. The Unpublished tab lists those.
  • More than one site? All Projects at the top switches the list to one site.
  • Fix or remove a link with the pencil and bin at the end of its row.
  • Which sites already link to you, whether you asked or not: see See Who Links to Your Site.