Links Tab

Purpose

• Analyze internal/external links, anchor text, and quick link health cues.

How to Open

• Popup nav → Links.
• Some pages limit scraping (blocked frames, heavy lazy-load); reload + reopen if needed.

What You See

• Counters across the top: total links, unique links, internal, and external.
• Separate internal and external tables, each with the URL, the anchor text, and the HTTP status code once fetched. Long lists page behind Show More.
• Nofollow, UGC and sponsored flags, and a robots-blocked verdict checked against the target site’s robots.txt.
• Optional on-page highlights that overlay a colour-coded badge on every link so you can scan status in place:
  • Yellow: query strings
  • Orange: nofollow
  • Red: blocked by robots
  • Blue: redirects
  • Error colours for 4xx and 5xx
• Status codes and robots verdicts are fetched by a Sprout service, so the link URLs leave your browser for that check. Everything else on this tab is read from the page you’re on.

Workflow Wins

• Spot navigation clutter or duplicate anchors without crawling.
• Fast check for accidental external links or missing rel=nofollow on UGC/ads.
• Identify redirecting links before running full audits.

Recommended Plays

• IA hygiene: Sort anchors to find dupes and thin nav labels.
• External risk: Filter external + missing rel to catch outbound leaks.
• Redirect cleanup: Open redirecting links to update destinations.

Actions

• Copy/export link tables for auditing.
• Jump to links in a new tab for spot checks.
• Use the highlight action to overlay statuses directly on the page for quick visual QA.

Tips & Troubleshooting

• For infinite scroll/JS-rendered links, scroll the page, then reopen the popup.
• Deduplicate anchors mentally; repeated nav/footer links are expected—focus on content links.