OneNote isn't designed for SEO backlinks. It's a Microsoft note-taking application that lives locally or in your OneDrive, not a publicly accessible web platform that search engines crawl. Links you create in OneNote don't pass PageRank, build domain authority, or affect your site's search rankings in any way. If you're trying to organize research or client link-building campaigns in OneNote, you can create internal hyperlinks between notebook pages or link out to external URLs. Right-click any text, select 'Link,' and paste the target URL or choose another page in your notebook. This helps you build a reference system for tracking outreach targets, anchor text variations, or competitor backlink profiles, but those links remain private to you. Some SEO teams at Ottawa SEO use OneNote to catalogue link prospects by creating a page per domain with notes on contact details, pitch angles, and follow-up dates. You can hyperlink directly to the target page you want a backlink on, making it faster to copy-paste during outreach. That's workflow efficiency, not link equity. If your actual goal is to get backlinks pointing to your website, OneNote won't help. You need links from indexed, third-party websites with real traffic and authority. Focus on guest posts, digital PR, resource pages, broken link building, or publisher outreach instead. Tools like Ahrefs or Semrush identify backlink opportunities; OneNote just holds your notes about them. One edge case: if you publish a OneNote notebook to the web using the old 'Publish to Web' feature, those pages technically become indexable HTML. In practice, they carry almost zero authority, look terrible for UX, and Google often ignores them. No serious SEO strategy involves OneNote as a link source. Keep it for internal documentation and use actual web properties for backlinks.