We're currently using a custom view that finds backlinks from nodereference fields.

It would be great of the backlink module would support both of these kinds of backlinks to get a more complete picture of the backlinks.

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Is backlinks not finding your nodereferences?
It is detecting mine, because it finds any links between pages, and my nodereferences are links.
But, if your nodereferences are not links, then it wouldn't work.

Backlinks is actually a pretty dumb module, it totally relies on search module to find the links. If search module can't see the links, it won't work..

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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
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Version: » 5.x-1.x-dev
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (fixed)

I just assumed it didn't, but if this works then great - I think we can consider it closed!

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Yes my goal here was to find both "proper" node references and links added manually to the bodies by users. Let me know if you do find any issues.