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March 2, 2026

# What Is Backlink Checker? A Practical Guide to Backlink Verification

A backlink you earned six months ago isn't guaranteed to still exist — sites redesign, articles get pruned, and links quietly go nofollow without any notification to you.

Backlink Checker exists to solve one specific, recurring problem: backlink verification is easy to get wrong by hand, tedious to check manually across a whole site, and quick to fix once you can actually see it clearly. That's the gap Backlink Checker fills.

In practice, this usually comes up in one of two situations — you're setting things up correctly from the start on a new page or site, or you're auditing something that already exists and trying to find what's silently broken. Both are worth doing regularly, not just once.

A few things worth keeping in mind:
- Re-verify backlinks from guest posts and outreach placements quarterly — link value can silently disappear if a site adds nofollow after the fact.
- Check anchor text distribution across your real backlinks, not just count — over-optimized exact-match anchors from many domains can look manipulative to search engines.
- Prioritize verifying links from high-relevance, topically-related sites over raw volume — ten relevant links generally outweigh a hundred unrelated ones.

It's also worth knowing what commonly goes wrong here. Assuming a link is permanent once it's live — treating backlink acquisition as a one-time task rather than something worth periodically auditing. And avoiding these is usually less about effort and more about knowing to check in the first place.

This connects to a few other things worth getting right at the same time — see Keyword Cannibalization Checker and eCommerce Keyword Research Tool for the related pieces of the same technical foundation.

If you want to check this on your own site right now, Backlink Checker runs directly in your browser, free, with no account required.

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