diff --git a/docs/topics/link-extractors.rst b/docs/topics/link-extractors.rst
index edb047c86..f9b25ae63 100644
--- a/docs/topics/link-extractors.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/link-extractors.rst
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ LxmlLinkExtractor
     :param deny_extensions: a single value or list of strings containing
         extensions that should be ignored when extracting links.
         If not given, it will default to the
-        ``IGNORED_EXTENSIONS`` list defined in the `scrapy.linkextractor`_
-        module.
+        ``IGNORED_EXTENSIONS`` list defined in the
+        `scrapy.linkextractors`_ module.
     :type deny_extensions: list
 
     :param restrict_xpaths: is an XPath (or list of XPath's) which defines
@@ -132,4 +132,4 @@ LxmlLinkExtractor
 
     :type process_value: callable
 
-.. _scrapy.linkextractor: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/blob/master/scrapy/linkextractor.py
+.. _scrapy.linkextractors: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/blob/master/scrapy/linkextractors/__init__.py
diff --git a/scrapy/linkextractor.py b/scrapy/linkextractors/__init__.py
similarity index 94%
rename from scrapy/linkextractor.py
rename to scrapy/linkextractors/__init__.py
index 2a4d18877..8567dbb76 100644
--- a/scrapy/linkextractor.py
+++ b/scrapy/linkextractors/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 """
-Common code and definitions used by Link extractors (located in
-scrapy.linkextractors).
+scrapy.linkextractors
+
+This package contains a collection of Link Extractors.
+
+For more info see docs/topics/link-extractors.rst
 """
 import re
 from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse
@@ -98,3 +101,6 @@ class FilteringLinkExtractor(object):
 
     def _extract_links(self, *args, **kwargs):
         return self.link_extractor._extract_links(*args, **kwargs)
+
+# Top-level imports
+from .lxmlhtml import LxmlLinkExtractor as LinkExtractor
diff --git a/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py b/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py
index 1ff8e4d36..1c31a15b5 100644
--- a/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py
+++ b/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from scrapy.selector import Selector
 from scrapy.link import Link
 from scrapy.utils.misc import arg_to_iter
 from scrapy.utils.python import unique as unique_list, str_to_unicode
-from scrapy.linkextractor import FilteringLinkExtractor
+from scrapy.linkextractors import FilteringLinkExtractor
 from scrapy.utils.response import get_base_url
 
 
diff --git a/scrapy/linkextractors/sgml.py b/scrapy/linkextractors/sgml.py
index 88d2d5b91..bae4ad5c0 100644
--- a/scrapy/linkextractors/sgml.py
+++ b/scrapy/linkextractors/sgml.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from sgmllib import SGMLParser
 from w3lib.url import safe_url_string
 from scrapy.selector import Selector
 from scrapy.link import Link
-from scrapy.linkextractor import FilteringLinkExtractor
+from scrapy.linkextractors import FilteringLinkExtractor
 from scrapy.utils.misc import arg_to_iter
 from scrapy.utils.python import unique as unique_list, str_to_unicode
 from scrapy.utils.response import get_base_url