Backlink monitoring that checks every link, every day.

Seven of twenty-five columns shown — link type, HTML container, platform, country, language, IP and broken status are one click away in Show/hide columns.

A backlink monitoring tool watches the links pointing at your website continuously and tells you when they change. Rather than producing a one-off list of referring domains, it re-checks each link on a schedule and reports what is new, what has been lost, what has been altered and what looks toxic — so a link you earned or paid for cannot quietly disappear between one traffic review and the next.

A backlink checker answers one question once: who links to this domain today. A monitor answers a harder question continuously: what changed since yesterday, and does it matter. TrueRanker does both — the free backlink checker gives anyone a snapshot of any domain, and the Backlinks module inside the product keeps checking your own profile every day and alerts you when something moves.

Every monitored backlink is checked daily. That applies to each link individually, not to your profile as a batch, so the anchor text, the target URL, the rel attribute and whether the page still exists are all re-verified once a day for as long as you keep monitoring that link.

Yes, and this is the part most link tools do not do. When you add a monitored backlink you declare the anchor text it should carry, the page on your site it should point at and the rel attribute it should have — follow, nofollow or sponsored. The daily check compares the live page against that declaration and flags the link when the two stop matching, so a rewritten anchor, a redirect to your home page or a follow that turned into a nofollow all surface as problems rather than as links that are technically still present.

The link moves to the Lost tab and you get an email. Because the record keeps the source URL, the anchor, the target page, the cost you recorded and any notes you wrote, you have everything you need to contact the site and ask for it back — including when it was first seen and when it was last confirmed live.

From our own link index, which is refreshed continuously, plus the links you add yourself. Backlinks discovery pulls a fresh set of referring domains for your project on demand and shows one link per domain — the highest-authority one — so the list you work from is a map of who links to you rather than thousands of rows from the same handful of sites.

Yes to both. Referring domains carry a spam score with the reasons behind it, so a batch of links that arrived without your involvement gets looked at rather than ignored. Anything you decide to disown can be selected in the table and exported as a Google disavow file, which means you never assemble one by copying and pasting URLs into a text editor.

Up to ten per project. Each one is analysed with the same metrics as your own domain — Domain Rank, total backlinks, referring domains and unique IPs — and you can pull up to 24 months of a competitor’s referring-domain history to see how their profile grew before you started watching.

The intersection table lists every referring domain that links to the competitors in your project, how many of them it links to, and whether it links to you. Sort by the number of competitors sharing a domain and filter out the ones that already link to you, and what is left is an outreach shortlist ranked by evidence: a site that already links to three of your rivals has proved both that it links to companies like yours and that your topic fits its pages.

Yes. Upload a CSV or TXT containing the source URL, anchor text, target URL, rel attribute, cost, date added, tags and notes, and every row becomes a monitored link with its expected values already set. There is a downloadable template with the columns in the order the importer expects, which is the difference between a five-minute migration and an afternoon of failed uploads.

Domain Rank, Page Rank and Backlink Rank; the anchor text and whether it matches what you expected; the target URL and whether it is the page you nominated; the rel attribute, including UGC and sponsored; the number of external and internal links on the page carrying your link; the link type, whether it is text, an image or a redirect; the HTML container the link sits in; the platform, country, language and IP of the referring domain; and the first-seen and lost dates.

Yes, and it is one of the more useful signals in the table. Alongside Domain Rank, each row shows how many keywords the linking page itself ranks for in Google’s top 3, top 10 and top 100. A link from a page that ranks for nothing is worth less than its domain metrics suggest, and this is the column that tells you which is which before you spend an afternoon chasing a placement.

Yes. Every monitored link takes a cost and an expected publication date, plus free-text notes and tags. That turns the backlink table into something a link-building budget can be reported against: what you spent, on which domains, whether the placements went live when they were promised, and whether they are still live now.

Your profile, your competitors’ profiles and the intersection table all export to CSV on any plan. There is a Looker Studio connector for dashboards, and full API access on the Agency plan for pulling backlink data programmatically.

Both run larger raw link indexes than we do, and if exhaustive historical link research is your main job that is worth paying for. What TrueRanker does differently is the monitoring workflow: a daily check on every link, verification against the anchor, target and rel you declared, cost tracking per placement, and no credit or row caps on any of it — at a fraction of their entry price. See the comparison table above, or the dedicated comparison pages.

Not to analyse it. Backlink data is public, which is what makes competitor research possible at all — you can pull any domain’s profile without verifying anything. Ownership only matters for the monitoring side, because declaring the anchor and target a link should have only makes sense for links pointing at your own pages. If you just want a one-off look at a domain, the free backlink checker needs no account.