About the Backlink Verifier
The Backlink Verifier checks in real time whether specific pages still link to your domain — the fastest way to audit guest posts, link exchanges and paid placements. It does not discover backlinks; you supply the linking URLs and it tells you what has changed since you last looked. For every source it reports the HTTP status, whether a link to your domain exists, the exact anchor text, the rel attribute (dofollow, nofollow, sponsored, ugc) and whether the source page is indexable at all.
Run it monthly against your link-building sheet: links that were silently removed, switched to nofollow or moved behind a noindex are flagged immediately. Combine it with the Redirect Checker to make sure linked URLs resolve in one clean 301 hop.
You enter your domain plus the pages that are supposed to link to you (e.g. from outreach, guest posts or purchased placements). The tool fetches every source page live and verifies whether the link actually exists — including anchor text, dofollow/nofollow status and whether the page is even indexable.
A dofollow link (no rel restriction) passes ranking signals to your site. Links marked rel="nofollow", rel="sponsored" or rel="ugc" tell Google to treat the link with less or no weight. For paid placements, sponsored is the correct attribute — a paid dofollow link violates Google's guidelines.
Discovering every backlink on the web requires a crawler index of billions of pages (Ahrefs, Semrush, Google Search Console). This tool does something those often cannot: it verifies in real time whether specific known backlinks are still live, unchanged and dofollow — ideal for monitoring link-building deals.
If the linking page carries a meta robots noindex, search engines will not keep it in their index — a backlink from it passes little to no value. This check protects you from paying for links on pages that are invisible to Google.