Use it as a screening tool for finding unusual pages, not as an automatic “too many links equals bad SEO” detector. -- prat.UK
Collect every article URL
Import URLs from each WordPress sitemap.
Run each domain separately so links to that domain are correctly classified as internal.
Remove duplicate URLs, media files, feeds, tag pages, and tracking parameters unless you specifically want those audited.
Open the Outbound Link Checker
Go to Addons → Outbound Link Checker.
Load the exact page URLs—not merely the domain names.
ScrapeBox will count internal and external links for each loaded page and can export the results to TXT, CSV, or Excel. ScrapeBox Outbound Link Checker documentation
Start conservatively
For your own WordPress sites, begin with 5–10 connections and no proxies.
Increase toward 20 only if the server remains responsive.
If you see 403, 429, timeout, or suspicious zero-link results, reduce connections and rerun those URLs.
Sort by external links from highest to lowest
Investigate:
Articles with unexpectedly high external-link counts.
Articles showing zero external links despite containing sources.
Pages with hundreds of internal links, which may reveal bloated navigation, tag clouds, related-post widgets, or template problems.
Sudden differences among articles using the same template.
Do not automatically delete everything above an arbitrary number such as 50 or 100 links. Compare similar pages:
Result
Suggested action
0 external links
Check whether sources were omitted or the scan failed
Normal range for your articles
Usually no action
Twice the site’s normal count
Manually inspect
Extremely high count
Look for widgets, spam comments, injected links, or template duplication
Very low internal count
Check navigation and internal-linking opportunities
A well-researched article containing 15 legitimate citations can be more useful than an article containing two questionable links. Google’s current guidance emphasizes useful, crawlable links and proper qualification—not blindly minimizing every external link. Google’s link best practices
The Outbound Link Checker only provides counts. Follow it with the appropriate addon:
Outbound Link Checker: Find pages with abnormal link counts.
Internal and External Link Extractor: Identify the actual destination URLs.
Broken Links Checker: Find dead links, redirects, and server errors.
Malware and Phishing Filter: Investigate suspicious external domains.
Page Scanner: Search source code for your domain, unwanted domains, nofollow, sponsored, or other specific HTML.
The Link Extractor retrieves the individual links, while the Broken Links Checker tests whether those destinations remain alive.
If you are examining pages that might link to Prat.UK:
Load the specific linking-page URLs.
Sort by external-link count, lowest first.
Treat a low count as one positive signal—not proof of quality.
Then evaluate relevance, indexing, editorial quality, traffic, and whether the page actually links to you.
Use Page Scanner to confirm that your domain appears in the page source.
For your sites, I would run this monthly and save each CSV with the date. The most valuable information will be changes from one scan to the next, particularly sudden outbound-link increases that could indicate spam, compromised plugins, or unwanted template links.