Internal links connect pages within your own website and external links point to other domains. Internal linking is one of the most controllable parts of SEO: it distributes link equity, helps search engines discover and understand pages, and a healthy internal structure can lift rankings without any new backlinks — so important pages should have several internal links and sit only a few clicks from the homepage. External (outbound) links add value and context but should be used deliberately, and any paid or affiliate link must be marked rel="sponsored" (or nofollow). To split your links this way the extractor needs your page’s URL or domain as a base; then it labels every link internal or external and lists each external domain you link out to.

rel="nofollow" signals that a site does not editorially vouch for a link and doesn’t want to pass ranking signals to it. In 2019 Google added two more specific attributes: rel="sponsored" for links that exist because of advertising, sponsorship or other compensation, and rel="ugc" for links in user-generated content such as comments and forum posts. All paid links must carry sponsored or nofollow — marking them only ugc can lead to a penalty. The attributes can be combined (e.g. rel="ugc nofollow"). The extractor reads each link’s rel and labels it follow, nofollow, sponsored or ugc, so you can quickly audit which outbound links pass signals and which correctly withhold them.

Anchor text is the visible, clickable words of a link, and Google’s own guidance is that it should be descriptive, concise and relevant — good enough to make sense on its own. Empty anchors (a link with no visible text, common on icon or image links) give users, screen readers and search engines no idea where the link goes, and generic phrases like “click here”, “read more” or “learn more” waste the opportunity to provide meaningful context. The extractor flags empty anchors, image-only links (it falls back to the image alt text), generic anchors and duplicate URLs so you can fix the low-value patterns in a link audit — while also warning against over-optimised exact-match anchors, which can look manipulative.

This is a single-page link inspector: it extracts links from the HTML you paste (View Source / Ctrl+U). Because it is 100% client-side with no server proxy — which is what keeps your page private — your browser cannot follow the links or fetch other pages (almost all live sites block cross-origin requests, or CORS), so it can’t crawl a site or discover pages. The optional “try to fetch a URL” box only works for CORS-enabled or same-origin pages. For a full multi-page site crawl, broken-link discovery or JavaScript-rendered links, use a server-side crawler such as Screaming Frog, Sitebulb or paid SEO suites. Nothing you paste here is ever uploaded.