Live & dofollow
The link is present, points to your target and passes equity. Nothing to do — log it as proof.
Free tool No signup to run a check
Backlink monitoring tool that catches lost links first.
Paste your backlinks and see in seconds which are live, lost, nofollow or redirected — with anchor text, rel attribute and HTTP status for every one.
- Bulk-check up to 25 links at once — instant, in your browser.
- See anchor, dofollow/nofollow and status code, not just up/down.
- Then monitor on autopilot with daily re-checks and email alerts.
Backlink status checker
Free
Backlinks monitored for agencies and brands worldwide
The basics
What a backlink monitoring tool actually does.
A backlink monitoring tool keeps an eye on the links pointing to your site and tells you the moment one changes. Instead of manually opening dozens of referring pages to confirm a link is still there, the tool visits each one for you and reports back its real state: present or removed, dofollow or nofollow, the exact anchor text, and the HTTP status the page returns.
You spend money and effort earning a backlink. Monitoring is how you make sure it keeps working — and you find out before your client does.
The one-off checker above is great for a quick audit. But links don't fail on a schedule: editors swap anchors, pages get redirected, posts get pruned. Ongoing monitoring re-checks every link on a cadence and alerts you the instant something breaks, so a lost link is a 10-minute fix, not a quarter of quietly leaking authority.
Why it matters
Links you don't watch are links you slowly lose.
Studies consistently show a meaningful share of built links disappear or change within a year. Monitoring turns that invisible churn into something you can act on.
Catch losses early
Get alerted the day a link drops or turns nofollow — while the relationship is still warm enough to fix it.
Protect your rankings
A page can slip in the SERPs when the links supporting it vanish. Spot the cause instead of guessing at a traffic dip.
Verify anchors & rel
Confirm every placement uses the agreed anchor and is dofollow — not quietly swapped or tagged sponsored after the fact.
Prove ROI to clients
Show a clean live-link report every month. Nothing builds retainer trust like "here's exactly what's still working."
Beyond a one-off check
Set it once. Get alerted when anything changes.
Add your links to a monitored project and we re-crawl them on a daily or weekly cadence. The dashboard tracks every status change over time, and the moment a link is lost, redirected or switched to nofollow, you get an email or Slack ping — not a nasty surprise three months later.
- Daily/weekly re-checks with full status history per link.
- Instant alerts by email or Slack on any change.
- Per-client projects with white-label PDF exports.
Live links
428
Lost (30d)
7
Uptime
98.4%
Link lost — techcrowd.io/seo-tools returned 404
2h ago
Redirected — growthhub.co/resources now 301s
Yesterday
Anchor changed on saasmonthly.com — now "click here"
2d ago
Recovered — financenote.com link is live again
3d ago
What you'll see
Every link, sorted into a status you can act on.
We don't just say "up" or "down." Each link is classified so you know exactly what to do next.
Nofollow / sponsored
Still on the page, but tagged so it no longer passes authority. Often worth a quick outreach to revert.
Lost / 404
The link or the whole page is gone. The fastest, highest-impact fix in any monitoring report.
Redirected
The referring page now 301/302s elsewhere. Equity may be diluted — verify the link still resolves to you.
Anchor changed
Link's still live but the anchor text was edited. Catch over-optimisation or off-brand anchors early.
Not indexed
Live, but Google hasn't indexed the page — so it isn't passing value yet. Flag for indexation help.
How it works
From paste to monitored in four steps.
1
Seconds
Paste your links
Drop in a list of referring URLs — export them from Ahrefs, Search Console or your own sheet. Add the target URL they should point to.
2
Instant
Run the check
Each page is fetched and parsed: we confirm the link exists, read its anchor and rel attribute, and record the HTTP status code.
3
One click
Review & export
Filter by status, spot the lost and nofollow links at a glance, and export a clean CSV — or a white-label PDF for clients.
4
Ongoing
Turn on monitoring
Save the list as a project and we re-check it automatically, alerting you by email or Slack the moment anything changes.
Who it's for
Built for everyone who paid for the link.
Agencies
Report with confidence
Monitor every client's profile in its own project and hand over clean, white-label live-link reports each month.
In-house
Defend the budget
Prove the links you invested in are still live and passing value — and catch losses before they dent rankings.
Founders
Stay hands-off
You don't have time to re-check links manually. Set monitoring once and only hear from it when something needs you.
Yes — the instant checker above is free and needs no signup. You only create an account if you want continuous monitoring, scheduled re-checks and email/Slack alerts.
The free instant checker handles up to 25 URLs per run. Monitored projects scale to thousands of links re-checked on a schedule, so there's no practical limit once you're set up.
Checking is a one-time snapshot — useful for a quick audit. Monitoring saves your links and re-crawls them on a cadence, keeps a full status history, and alerts you the moment a link changes so you never miss a loss.
Yes. Every result shows the link's rel attribute, so you can immediately see whether it's dofollow, nofollow or sponsored — alongside the anchor text and HTTP status code.
Export referring URLs from Ahrefs, Semrush or Google Search Console, or use the link sheet we provide if we built them. Paste that list in and you're monitoring in under a minute.
Absolutely. The tool monitors any backlink you point it at, regardless of where it came from — your own outreach, a previous agency, or organic editorial links you want to protect.
Start monitoring free
Stop losing links you worked hard to earn.
Create a free monitoring project, add your links, and we'll watch them for you — alerting you the moment anything changes. No card required to start.
- Daily or weekly automatic re-checks
- Email & Slack alerts on any change
- White-label reports per client project
- Full status history for every link
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