Backlink Checker
Load the list of links Google or Bing already has for your site, free from their webmaster tools, and we read every page live: is the link still there, is it followed, which words does it use.
What it reads
A list of links is only useful if it's true today. Each of these is read off the live page, not remembered from an old crawl.
Every page is read when you press the button, not taken from a list that was true months ago.
Followed, nofollow, ugc or sponsored, read off each link. Plus whether the page itself asks not to be indexed.
The anchor text of every link, or the alt text when the link is an image.
If the page's canonical points to a different address, search engines may credit that address instead.
Pages that name your business or domain but don't link: the easiest links there are to ask for.
Earning good links is slow, honest work: being worth mentioning, and asking the people who already mention you. If you'd like help with it, that's SEO & local visibility work.
Common questions
At finding links, no, and we'd rather say so. Ahrefs runs its own crawler across billions of pages, so it discovers links no free tool can. What it shows you is a memory: links its crawler saw, some of them weeks or months ago. This tool reads every page now, so a link that was removed shows as removed. It also reads what decides whether a link counts (nofollow, ugc, sponsored, a page that asks not to be indexed, a canonical pointing elsewhere) and spots pages that name you without linking, for a whole list at once, free and with no signup.
From the search engines themselves, for free. Google Search Console's Links report exports the pages Google knows link to you (Export external links, then Latest links), and Bing Webmaster Tools exports its own list from Backlinks. For a site that matters, that is better evidence than any third-party crawler: it's what the search engines that rank you actually found. Load either file, or both, and every page is read live.
We tried, with a paid web search. Searching for a domain found almost nothing, and searching for a name returned a different business with the same name. A tool that lists someone else's pages as your backlinks is worse than none, so we ask for Google's own list instead.
A link marked nofollow, ugc (user-generated, like a forum post) or sponsored (paid) tells search engines not to treat it as a vote for your site. Such links still bring visitors, and Google treats the marks as hints rather than rules, but a followed link from a real, relevant page is the one that helps you rank. We show each link's marks so you know which kind you have.
A page that names your business or your domain without linking to it. A local news piece, a supplier's client list, a blog that recommended you. The writer already likes you enough to mention you, so a short, friendly email asking for the link is the easiest link you'll ever get.
Some sites block automated readers, some are slow, and some are down for a moment. We say we couldn't read it rather than reporting the link as gone, because that would be guessing. Open the page yourself to check, or run the check again later.
There's no number, and anyone who quotes one is selling something. A handful of links from real, relevant local pages (a trade body, a supplier, a local directory, a news piece) does more for a small business than hundreds from sites nobody visits. Bought links in bulk can get a site penalised.
No. A file you load is read in your own browser, and only the addresses in it are sent. What we read from each page goes straight back to you and isn't stored. The CSV download is made in your browser too.
After the check
Listings, partners and pages worth linking to, built properly. That's a job we do.
Fixed price agreed before work starts. No hourly billing, no surprises.
