Free internal link checker
Most link checkers count every link on the page and call it a number. This one separates the links inside your content from the ones in your nav and footer — because only one of those says anything about the page it's on.
- Contextual links separated from nav and footer
- Generic, empty and image-only anchors flagged
- Conflicting anchor text spotted
- Every internal link listed
- Orphan pages — pages nothing links to, which this page alone can't see
- Under-linked pages — your money pages, ranked by how few links reach them
- Suggested links — which page should link to which, with the anchor to use
- Verification — we re-check the live page to confirm you shipped it
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Questions
What is an internal linking tool?
An internal linking tool looks at the links pointing from one page of your site to another. This one checks a single page: how many internal links it has, how many are real in-body links versus nav and footer boilerplate, and whether the anchor text actually describes where each link goes.
Why separate contextual links from navigation links?
Navigation, header and footer links repeat on every page of the site, so they say nothing specific about the page they're on. A link inside your content is a deliberate editorial signal: this page is about that topic, and that page is worth reading next. Counting both together makes a page with 40 nav links look well-linked when it may have no contextual links at all.
What is good anchor text?
Anchor text that describes the destination in a few natural words — “our emergency plumbing service” rather than “click here”. Avoid using the exact same anchor for different pages, because that tells search engines two pages compete for the same term.
How many internal links should a page have?
There's no target number, and any tool that gives you one is guessing. What matters is that the important pages on your site are reachable and that links appear where they genuinely help a reader. A page with five well-placed contextual links beats one with fifty in a mega-menu.
Does this crawl my whole site?
No. This tool reads one page, once, so it's fast and free. Questions that need the whole site — which pages have nothing pointing at them, where link equity collects, which templates under-link — need a full crawl, which is what CommandSEO does.