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Use Referring Domains when you want to know which sites link to a domain, subdomain, or page. Each referring domain comes with its rank, how many backlinks it sends, and a spam score. A typical use is link-building research, or checking who links to a competitor, then looping over the domains in a later step.

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Configuration

Add this step from the Research group in Search steps…. A value with no scheme, such as example.com, is sent as a domain. www. is removed. A URL with a real path, such as https://example.com/blog/post, is sent as a page. https://example.com/ is treated as the domain example.com. A path without https://, such as example.com/blog, is rejected.

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Output

Click Run in the step header to test the step. Fetch Hive shows the domain list in Output after the run completes. Use the variable picker in a later step to insert the exact output path available for that run. The list of referring domains is:
Each item includes domain, rank, backlinks, referring_pages, backlinks_spam_score, first_seen, and lost_date, plus breakdowns such as referring_links_tld and referring_links_countries. The object also includes target, total_count, and items_count. Inside an iteration over {{step_2.output.items}}, the referring domain is:
There is no results or domains list, and the domain is not url or referring_domain. Use Backlinks Summary when you need one profile for the whole site, or Backlinks Search when you need the individual links.

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Example

Add Referring Domains from the Research group in Search steps…. Set Name to something like Who links to us. Enter example.com in Target, or insert a variable that resolves to a domain. Leave Sort on backlinks, highest first, then click Run and review Output before looping over items in a later step.

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Cost

Hosted runs convert the recorded service cost plus a 6% service fee into task credits. The provider charge grows with the number of domains returned. See Task costs.

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Notes

  • If the provider rejects the target or a filter, the step fails and the error message is the provider’s message. When the step fails then decides whether the workflow stops or continues.
  • Personal model keys are not used. This step always runs as a hosted provider call.