SE Ranking API Reference

Glossary
Regional database codes
SERP features
Site Audit issue codes
Error handling

Glossary

Find key terms used throughout this API documentation.

Anchor text

Clickable text in a hyperlink that points to another web resource.

Backlink

A reference to a target URL from a different domain via a link, redirect, redirect chain, or canonical link.

Destination page (URL)

The page that a link or redirect ultimately leads to.

Domain

The main part of a website address, such as example.com.

Domain InLink Rank

A score indicating a domain’s authority based on the number and weight of its incoming links, aggregated at the domain level (0–100).

Host

The full domain name including all subdomains, for example www.example.sub.domain.com.

InLink Rank

A score indicating a page’s authority based on the number and weight of incoming links to that page (0–100).

Nofollow

A value assigned to the rel attribute in an <a> tag or robots meta tag. It is one of Google’s recommended methods for flagging spam, advertising-related, or sponsored links. Nofollow links don’t normally pass SEO weight to a destination URL.

Page (URL)

A web resource identified by a unique address that can be requested over a network.

Pay-Level Domain (PLD)

A subdomain of a public top-level domain, for which users usually pay for.

Referring domain

The domain of a page that links to your website.

Referring page (URL)

A specific page that sends users to your site via a link or redirect.

Subdomain

A domain that is part of a larger domain, such as sub.example.com (domain example.com).

Target

The entity (URL, domain, or subdomain) for which backlink data is requested.

Regional database codes

Use one of these ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes as the value of the source parameter to target a specific regional keyword database.

A

B

C

D-F

G-L

M

N-P

Q-T

U-Z

SERP features

Use one of these codes as the value of the serp_features parameter to target keywords with specific SERP features.

Core Google results

Local and places

Media and visual

Knowledge and data

Shopping and commerce

Jobs, events and community

Utilities

Ads

Site Audit issue codes

Use these values with the Site Audit endpoints. Each audit report is organized into sections, and each section contains individual issue checks identified by a unique code.

Audit sections

Every audit report groups its checks into the following sections. Use the uid value when filtering or referencing a section programmatically.

Issue codes

Use one of these codes as the value of the code parameter in the Get pages by issue endpoint to retrieve all URLs affected by a specific issue.

Each code has a severity level: error, warning, or notice.

Security

Crawling & Indexing

Redirects

Sitemap

Meta Tags

Content

Localization

Speed & Performance

JavaScript

CSS

Links

Mobile Optimization

Other

Error handling

Find general API status codes in the table below. Endpoint-specific errors are described within each endpoint’s documentation. When a request fails, an error description is included in the response body.