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March 3, 2026

# Backlink Checker: Common Mistakes and Best Practices

Most problems with backlink Checker aren't caused by not knowing what to do — they're caused by small, easy-to-miss mistakes that compound quietly over time. Here are the ones that come up most often.

Mistake 1: Assuming a link is permanent once it's live — treating backlink acquisition as a one-time task rather than something worth periodically auditing.

Mistake 2: Focusing purely on domain authority metrics while ignoring whether the link is dofollow, indexed, and actually placed in content (not a sidebar widget).

Mistake 3: Not tracking which outreach efforts actually converted to live links, making it impossible to know which tactics are worth repeating.

The fix for most of these isn't more effort, it's a regular check. A few habits that prevent them from creeping back in:
- Prioritize verifying links from high-relevance, topically-related sites over raw volume — ten relevant links generally outweigh a hundred unrelated ones.
- When a promised link never appeared or was quietly removed, follow up with the site — it's usually an oversight, not a deliberate reversal.

Worth reading alongside this: our guide to ecommerce keyword research, which covers the adjacent side of the same part of a technical SEO audit.

Backlink Checker catches most of this automatically, which is the easiest way to stop these mistakes from shipping in the first place.

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