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Thanks Tymen, Anthony - that helps a lot. It is indeed - domain.com/post-title (no category in url) so I am safe to clean up the site without repercussions. Better to learn this lesson now than down the line. Cheers!

Hi, thanks for your help. SERPed doesn't however, allow access. You need to ask permission to use any tools. I think I may possible have answered my own question. I rebuilt the site recently, added SRL cert and moved it over to a https: instead of http: Apparently Google sees this as a completely different domain which I never knew. I have added this to my google search console. It has acknowledged it but is still not allowing me see my back links through search console (no data). It is still also strange that all of these tools like ahrefs are showing the back links for older links to http but not the most recent back links for https: