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A few posts back, I wrote about creating a list of articles that link to some other article, i.e. a list of "backlinks". That post back then was focused on Drupal 7.

I'm a bit shocked though, that nobody noticed or mentioned that this feature already exists in Drupal 6. I had no idea either. So this heads up here is to make things right.

When you have the core Search module enabled and have Views installed and enabled, you should get a default view called "backlinks".

Sorry for my bad researching skills!

A popular feature request for sites that deal with a lot of content, is to see for each page what other pages are linking back to it. This can be helpful when doing some SEO or cleaning up and rewriting old content.

In Drupal 7 this is easily done. It exists where you wouldn't immediately expect it though: the core search module. Kind of mimicking how search bots like Google's indexer works, Drupal 7's search module now takes the amount of nodes linking back to another node to calculate the score for some result.