Looking for a Tool to Find Referring Pages of Specific URLs

[Pushm]

Hello Everyone,

We are Looking for a Tool to Find Referring Pages of Specific URLs.

Please let me know if you know of a Moz tool or another tool for this need.

Thanks.

[effectdigital]

Not a problem. Sometimes you just need a pro

[Pushm]

Hello Effect Digital,

It worked!

Thank you for sharing AND taking the time to create such detailed instructions.

It is very much appreciated!

[meghanpahinui]

Hi Robert!

Thanks so much for the great question! Unfortunately we do not currently have a tool that will search your site for the instance of a specific URL. I'm so sorry about that! I will be sure to pass this on to our team, though, as a feature request.

Within Moz you can use the Site Crawl tool within Campaigns to see the referring URL for a specific internal page (but it will not show you all the instances of that URL on the site) or Link Explorer to see external links pointing to a specific page on your site.

If you have any other questions about this or need anything else, please feel free to reach out to [email protected]!

[effectdigital]

You can use Screaming Frog to do this

Crawl the whole site, then once it's done save the crawl file (File->Save) so you don't lose the project (important, in-case you accidentally export the wrong thing - you can load it back up again!)

Then go: Bulk Export->All Outlinks

That will get you the data you need. It will list all the links on the site, including links to resources (as long as your crawl settings are right, it can be somewhat of a learning curve - if for example you neglect to even crawl pages blocked by Robots.txt, if you neglect to crawl links inside of CSS or if you don't use the JS crawling method correctly you might miss stuff)

The spreadsheet will contain loads of columns containing data on the links. One will show you the referring page / source URL, the other will show you the link target / destination. On the link destination column, filter by your desired URL (which in this case would contain /image-name.jpg or similar)

Once that's done, on the left you'll see all the referring URLs. Sorted!

If the data which is created by Screaming Frog is too large to be analysed in Excel you can export to CSV instead of XLSX. You can then proceed to:

a) Upload it to a local MySQL database for analysis with MySQL queries

b) Use a big-data CSV manipulation tool, like Delimit instead to narrow the data down. Once it's narrow, re-save and then analyse in Excel

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Problem solved!

[jasongmcmahon]

Hello Robert,

Good luck with that, I'm not aware of a tool that would do that specific type of reporting. I've only ever done that in the past using an HTML editor.

[jasongmcmahon]

Hello Aspirant, recommend using the Moz Link Explorer tool