Anchors
| Anchor text | Ref. domains ▾ | Top DR | Ref. pages | Links to target | Dofollow links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Johnson | 7 | — | 0 | 9 | 7 77.8% |
| I’d Rather Be Writing | 3 | — | 0 | 3 | 3 100% |
| idratherbewriting.com | 3 | — | 0 | 3 | 2 66.7% |
| Prompt engineering: error checking the output | 2 | — | 0 | 3 | 3 100% |
| Fixing bugs without thinking, Recursive Self-Improvement, and the shift towards more complex tech comm tasks | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| To establish value, focus more on high priority projects: Reading Michael Lynch’s post on why he quit Google to work for himself | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| I’d Rather Be Writing | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Using AI to design pages (prompt engineering series) | 2 | — | 0 | 5 | 5 100% |
| Using long-token contexts to quality check an entire API doc set | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Unpacking the issues from AI — thoughts on Alan Porter’s post Am I the AI Luddite? and Fabrizio Benedetti’s How I’m using AI as a technical writer | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| I’d Rather Be Writing Podcast – Will your next user be an AI agent? The future of content delivery with Fabrice Lacroix, founder of Fluid Topics | 2 | — | 0 | 5 | 5 100% |
| I'd Rather Be Writing | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Part 1: Introduction (Bakhtin and model collapse: How to use AI with expressive writing without generating AI slop) | 2 | — | 0 | 5 | 5 100% |
| NotebookLM podcasts — the missing piece in the GenAI puzzle? | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| I’d Rather Be Writing Podcast – GenAI and Document360: Conversation with Saravana Kumar | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| idratherbewriting | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| 2 | — | 0 | 4 | 4 100% | |
| Using AI with issue tracking systems (prompt engineering series) | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Why getting to bug zero is so hard | 2 | — | 0 | 4 | 4 100% |
| New topic in API course: Using AI tools to write build and publish scripts | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Prompt engineering: gathering source input | 2 | — | 0 | 3 | 3 100% |
| Thoughts on Docs as code being a broken promise | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Documenting APIs course | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Prompt engineering: Reverse engineering prompts | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| You’ve heard of ‘Docs as code’ — Now get ready for ‘Code as docs’: Q&A with Speakeasy | 1 | — | 0 | 3 | 3 100% |
| API documentation | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Blog Icon | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| From engineer interviews to written draft, with chain of thought reasoning | 1 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Two days in my life as a technical writer | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| YAML tutorial | 1 | — | 0 | 7 | 0 0% |
| the importance of “becoming hyphenated”(audio link) | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| My first vibecoding project | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Read More | 1 | — | 0 | 10 | 10 100% |
| A Practical Guide to Information Architecture with Donna Spencer | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| September 10, 2020 Industry News SmartBear's 2020 API report finds 'Accurate and detailed... The SmartBear report also notes that 'API documentation represents big opportunity for improvement,' which I... Read More | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| learned by way of the Most Influential Person in Technical Communication, Tom Johnson. | 1 | — | 0 | 4 | 4 100% |
| Command line utility, or cURL | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| reduce complexity | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| https://idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/pubapis_docs_as_code.html#what-Docs-as-Code-tools-means | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| I’d Rather Be Writing . | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 0 0% |
| review of MadCap Flare | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Listening to customer feedback? Malcolm Gladwell on the Aeron chair | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| A hodgepodge of ideas spewing in my head | 1 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Biking and public transportation in Renton and Seattle: Solving the first-mile and last-mile problems | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Why software applications need product blogs and why they don’t get them | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Simplified Technical English (STE) | 1 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Java: Handling exceptions | I'd Rather Be Writing Blog | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Link to documentation | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Documentation theater and the acceleration paradox — podcast episode 3 with Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
Frequently Asked Questions
What anchor texts are used to link to idratherbewriting.com?
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What is anchor text?
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How many unique anchor texts does idratherbewriting.com have?
The anchor text report for idratherbewriting.com displays all distinct anchor texts grouped by their hash. Each row shows how many unique referring domains use that anchor, the total number of links, and the dofollow percentage. A high number of unique anchors generally indicates a healthy, natural backlink profile with diverse link sources.