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. The "this article has brought X people to the wiki from non-search engine links" is the inbound count.
Yes, but is there any way to see what the links say about the trope itself? I'm pretty sure there used to be a tool which let you see that.
There used to be a way to see what pages the inbounds were from, but it was removed after some people started to add TV Tropes links to their websites in order to increase their search engine rankings.
Really? Too bad, I really want to see what the inbounds say...
Is there no third-party tool?
To acquire this information without hacking the server, you will need to crawl the entire web. Google does that. Maybe they have a tool.
Also: Which sites did people visit immediately before this site?
- google.com 22.7%
- youtube.com 8.6%
- reddit.com 3.8%
- wikipedia.org 3.6%
- facebook.com 2.8%
Also: What sites link to tvtropes.org? Total Sites Linking In 13,134
I can bet you some of them are FB or FB plugin comments where the tropes are used to describe what's being commented on. (The threads will usually have at least one person complaining that they wiki walked TVT for some time after following the link. :p )
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
We don't publish inbound links any more because spammers were abusing them for SEO.
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Is there any easy way to see the inbound links to a trope I made?