Links rot. Nobody tells you.
You earned it, you logged it, and eight months later the page was rewritten and your link went with it. Most link reports never notice.
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The number in your spreadsheet is a historical claim
Backlink management usually means a spreadsheet of links somebody added the day they were won. It records that a link existed once. It does not record whether the link is there now, whether the anchor still says what it said, or whether a redesign quietly dropped it.
Links go for ordinary reasons. A round-up gets refreshed for the new year. An editor leaves and the replacement trims the outbound links. A CMS migration eats the body HTML. None of it is malicious and none of it announces itself, which is exactly why a count that only ever goes up is not measuring anything.
So the agent fetches every won link back from the live page on a schedule and checks it is still there, still pointing at you, and still followed. When it can't confirm, it stops counting it — and a number that can go down is the only kind worth reporting.
How it actually works.
Re-fetched from the live page
Not from a cached index. It reads the page as it stands today and looks for the link.
It would rather miss one than invent one
When the check is ambiguous, the link isn't counted. A false positive tells you that you earned something you didn't, and every number downstream inherits it.
Nofollow changes are caught
A link that survives but picks up a nofollow attribute is a different link. It's reported as such rather than left in the total.
Anchors are recorded
What the link actually reads as, so you can see your anchor profile instead of guessing at it.
Directory listings tracked too
Submissions run through the same verification, so paid listings that quietly lapsed don't sit in your total forever.
Real domains. Go and check them.
August.ai
in 60 days · 2.1K links · +900% traffic
BlackInk.ai
in 90 days · 10.5K links · +200% traffic
Virlo.ai
in 49 days · 1.3K links · +1200% traffic
Hey.Kwakwa.com
in 48 days · 724 links · +22% traffic
The things you're already thinking.
How often are links re-checked?
On a rolling schedule, so a removal surfaces within days rather than whenever someone next audits the sheet.
Can I import links I built elsewhere?
Yes. Anything you're already tracking can go through the same verification, which is usually the moment people discover a few of them are gone.
Does this replace Ahrefs or Semrush?
No. Those are research tools across the whole web. This watches the specific links you earned and tells you when one changes.
What happens when a link disappears?
It leaves the verified count and shows in results as removed, with the page it was on — which is usually enough to ask for it back.
I built this because I was doing it by hand for my own products, and the tedious part was never the writing. It was finding the twenty pages worth writing to, then remembering which ones I'd already asked.
So the agent does the finding and the remembering, and leaves you the part a human is still better at: deciding whether the pitch is any good. If it ever stops doing that well, tell me — the address below is mine and I read it.
Piyush
Founder, BacklinkBot
Your next backlinks are
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On pages ranking for your keywords right now, written by people who have never heard of you. A free week finds out how many.
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