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October 20, 2025

# The Backlink Verification Checklist: What to Verify Before You Publish

Run through this before you consider backlink verification actually done:

1. Re-verify backlinks from guest posts and outreach placements quarterly — link value can silently disappear if a site adds nofollow after the fact.
2. 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.
3. Prioritize verifying links from high-relevance, topically-related sites over raw volume — ten relevant links generally outweigh a hundred unrelated ones.
4. When a promised link never appeared or was quietly removed, follow up with the site — it's usually an oversight, not a deliberate reversal.
5. Double-check this after any site migration or major redesign, not just at launch.

None of these individually take long. The value is in doing all of them, every time, instead of remembering most of them most of the time.

Pair this with the 301 redirect chains checklist if you're doing a fuller pre-launch pass.

Backlink Checker runs through most of this automatically.

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