The URL Inspection tool provides detailed crawl, index, and serving information about your pages, directly from the Google index. Enter a URL that you own to learn the last crawl date and status, any crawling or indexing errors, and the canonical URL for that page.

“Links” is a report within Google Search Console (GSC) that shows how other sites link to your site and how your site links internally. Tracking external links, or backlinks, and internal links is important. It lets you see sites that link to you the most, your most influential pages, and more.

Set-up Your Google Webmaster Tools Account You'll need to go to https://accounts.google.com/SignUp and in a few easy steps you can sign up for an account. This will give you access to all the tools and applications of Google. You don't need to have a Gmail account in order to do it.