diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-vision/linkinator.config.json b/packages/google-cloud-vision/linkinator.config.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d780d6bfff5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-vision/linkinator.config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  "recurse": true,
+  "skip": [
+    "https://codecov.io/gh/googleapis/",
+    "www.googleapis.com"
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-vision/package.json b/packages/google-cloud-vision/package.json
index cfbefa973fd..5f2fd6a11ab 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-vision/package.json
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-vision/package.json
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
     "test-no-cover": "mocha test/*.js",
     "test": "nyc mocha",
     "fix": "eslint --fix '**/*.js'",
-    "docs-test": "linkinator docs -r --skip www.googleapis.com",
+    "docs-test": "linkinator docs",
     "predocs-test": "npm run docs"
   },
   "dependencies": {
@@ -61,6 +61,6 @@
     "prettier": "^1.13.6",
     "sinon": "^7.0.0",
     "uuid": "^3.3.0",
-    "linkinator": "^1.1.2"
+    "linkinator": "^1.5.0"
   }
 }