How do I check backlinks in Google Search Console?

Go to Links in the left sidebar. The External Links section shows:

• Top linked pages - Your pages with the most external backlinks
• Top linking sites - Domains that link to you most often
• Top linking text - Most common anchor text used in links to your site

This is first-party data directly from Google, making it highly accurate for understanding your link profile. Note that GSC shows a representative sample, not necessarily all links - for comprehensive backlink research, supplement with tools like Ahrefs or Semrush.

Tip: AutoPSEO makes it easy to monitor link growth and changes to your backlink profile over time using your Search Console data.

How AutoPSEO helps

AutoPSEO focuses on the data Search Console reports best, search performance and indexing, and lets you export any table to CSV so you can join it with link data from your crawler or backlink tool.