Referring Domains
This endpoint will provide you with a detailed overview of referring domains pointing to the target you specify.
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Authorizations
Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.
Body
the maximum number of returned domains optional field default value: 100 maximum value: 1000
offset in the results array of returned domains optional field default value: 0 if you specify the 10 value, the first ten domains in the results array will be omitted and the data will be provided for the successive pages
maximum number of elements within internal arrays optional field you can use this field to limit the number of elements within the following arrays: referring_links_tld referring_links_types referring_links_attributes referring_links_platform_types referring_links_semantic_locations default value: 10 maximum value: 1000
set what backlinks to return and count optional field you can use this field to choose what backlinks will be returned and used for aggregated metrics for your target; possible values: all – all backlinks will be returned and counted; live – backlinks found during the last check will be returned and counted; lost – lost backlinks will be returned and counted; default value: live
array of results filtering parameters optional field you can add several filters at once (8 filters maximum) you should set a logical operator and, or between the conditions the following operators are supported: regex, not_regex, =, , in, not_in, like, not_like, match, not_match you can use the % operator with like and not_like to match any string of zero or more characters example: ["referring_pages",">","1"] [["referring_pages",">","2"], "and", ["backlinks",">","10"]] [["first_seen",">","2017-10-23 11:31:45 +00:00"], "and", [["domain","like","%dataforseo.com%"],"or",["referring_domains",">","10"]]] The full list of possible filters is available here.
results sorting rules optional field you can use the same values as in the filters array to sort the results possible sorting types: asc – results will be sorted in the ascending order desc – results will be sorted in the descending order you should use a comma to set up a sorting type example: ["backlinks,desc"] note that you can set no more than three sorting rules in a single request you should use a comma to separate several sorting rules example: ["backlinks,desc","rank,asc"]
filter the backlinks of your target optional field you can use this field to filter the initial backlinks that will be included in the dataset for aggregated metrics for your target you can filter the backlinks by all fields available in the response of this endpoint using this parameter, you can include only dofollow backlinks in the response and create a flexible backlinks dataset to calculate the metrics for example: "backlinks_filters": ["dofollow", "=", true]
indicates if the subdomains of the target will be included in the search optional field if set to false, the subdomains will be ignored default value: true
indicates if indirect links to the target will be included in the results optional field if set to true, the results will include data on indirect links pointing to a page that either redirects to the target, or points to a canonical page if set to false, indirect links will be ignored default value: true
indicates whether the backlinks from subdomains of the target are excluded optional field if set to false, the backlinks from subdomains of the target will be ommited and you won’t receive the same domain in the response; default value: true
defines the scale used for calculating and displaying the rank, domain_from_rank, and page_from_rank values optional field you can use this parameter to choose whether rank values are presented on a 0–100 or 0–1000 scale possible values: one_hundred — rank values are displayed on a 0–100 scale one_thousand — rank values are displayed on a 0–1000 scale default value: one_thousand learn more about how this parameter works and how ranking metrics are calculated in this Help Center article
user-defined task identifier optional field the character limit is 255 you can use this parameter to identify the task and match it with the result you will find the specified tag value in the data object of the response
Response
Successful response
the current version of the API
general status code you can find the full list of the response codes here Note: we strongly recommend designing a necessary system for handling related exceptional or error conditions
general informational message you can find the full list of general informational messages here
execution time, seconds
total tasks cost, USD
the number of tasks in the tasks array
the number of tasks in the tasks array returned with an error
array of tasks
task identifier unique task identifier in our system in the UUID format
status code of the task generated by DataForSEO; can be within the following range: 10000-60000 you can find the full list of the response codes here
informational message of the task you can find the full list of general informational messages here
execution time, seconds
cost of the task, USD
number of elements in the result array
URL path
contains the same parameters that you specified in the POST request
array of results
target in a POST array
total number of relevant items in the database total number of main domains referring to your target; example.com and blog.example.com are counted as one referring domain
number of items in the items array
items array
type of element = ‘backlinks_referring_domain’
referring domain
domain rank rank volume that a referring website passes to the target rank is calculated based on the method for node ranking in a linked database – a principle used in the original Google PageRank algorithm learn more about the metric and how it is calculated in this help center article
indicates the number of backlinks pointing to the target
date and time when our crawler found the backlink for the first time in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss +00:00” example: 2019-11-15 12:57:46 +00:00
date and time when the last backlink from this domain was lost indicates the date and time when our crawler visited the page and it responded with 4xx or 5xx status code or the last backlink was removed in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss +00:00” example: 2017-01-24 13:20:59 +00:00
average spam score of all backlinks pointing to the domain learn more about how the metric is calculated on this help center page
number of broken backlinks number of broken backlinks pointing to the domain
number of broken pages number of pages that respond with 4xx or 5xx status codes where backlinks are pointing to
indicates the number of referring domains note that we calculate main domains (root domains, like example.com) and their subdomains (e.g. blog.example.com) separately for this metric
number of domains pointing at least one nofollow link to the target
indicates the number of referring main domains the number of primary (root) domains referring to your target
number of main domains pointing at least one nofollow link to the target
number of referring IP addresses number of IP addresses pointing to this page
number of referring subnetworks
indicates the number of pages pointing to the target specified
top-level domains of the referring links contains top level domains and referring link count per each
types of referring links indicates the types of the referring links and link count per each type possible values: anchor, image, link, meta, canonical, alternate, redirect
link attributes of the referring links indicates link attributes of the referring links and link count per each attribute
types of referring platforms indicates referring platform types and link count per each platform possible values: cms, blogs, ecommerce, message-boards, wikis, news, organization
semantic locations of the referring links indicates semantic elements in HTML where the referring links are located and the link count per each semantic location you can get the full list of semantic elements here examples: article, section, summary
ISO country codes of the referring links indicates ISO country codes of the domains where the referring links are located and the link count per each country
number of referring pages pointing at least one nofollow link to the target