External Link Checker

Enter a website URL below to crawl the site and extract every single unique external (outbound) link it points to. Discover exactly which pages link to which domains, along with their anchor text.

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What Is an External Link?

An external link (also known as an outbound link) is a hyperlink that points from your website to a completely different website domain. For example, if you link to a Wikipedia article or a news source from your blog, that is an external link.

Search engines like Google use external links to understand the context of your page. Linking to high-quality, authoritative sites can boost your own credibility, while linking to spammy or low-quality sites can harm your SEO rankings.

Why Audit Your External Links?

SEO Protection

Ensure you are not accidentally linking to "bad neighborhoods" (spam, malware, or penalized domains). If a site you linked to years ago expires and gets bought by spammers, your site is now linking to spam.

Find Broken Links (404s)

Export your external link list and run it through a bulk status checker to find outbound links that no longer exist. Fixing broken outbound links improves user experience.

Grouped & Unique Reporting

If you have a sitewide external link (like an affiliate link in your footer), our tool smartly groups it so you don't see 10,000 duplicate rows, making your data incredibly easy to read.

Easy CSV Export

Download the flattened list of external links, complete with the exact source page they appear on and the anchor text used, straight to a CSV file for your SEO reports.

How the External Link Crawler Works

  1. Enter the starting URL: Provide the homepage or a specific page URL.
  2. Crawling process: Our tool scans the HTML of that page, extracts all unique links pointing to different domains, and displays them in the table.
  3. Recursive discovery: The tool simultaneously finds internal links on that page and adds them to a queue, continuing to crawl your site page-by-page until all external links across the domain are found.
💡 Pro Tip: Use the Anchor Text data to check if your outbound links are overly optimized or if you are missing opportunities to use descriptive anchor text instead of generic phrases like "click here".

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