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Link & Anchor Text Extractor
Pull every link, anchor text and rel attribute off a page.
About the Link & Anchor Text Extractor
Every anchor on the page is pulled out with its href, anchor text, rel attributes and whether it points inside or outside the site. The result is the page's link graph in a form you can sort and export.
Anchor text is the column most worth reading. A page with forty internal links all reading "click here" or "read more" passes no information about what it is linking to. Descriptive anchor text is one of the few internal-linking signals you fully control.
The rel column shows where nofollow, sponsored and ugc have been applied. If you take payment for a link or run affiliate links, marking them is a requirement of Google's guidelines rather than a suggestion, and unmarked paid links are one of the few things that still attract a manual action.
Common questions
Does it follow links to other pages?
No — it lists the links found on the one page you enter. To map a whole site's link graph, run it against your key pages one at a time or generate a sitemap first to get the full URL list.
What does the rel column show?
Whether nofollow, sponsored or ugc has been applied to each link. Google's guidelines require marking paid or user-generated links this way, so it's a quick compliance check.
Why does anchor text matter?
Anchor text is one of the few internal linking signals you fully control. A page linked from forty instances of "click here" passes no topical information; descriptive anchor text does.