Hosted backlink monitoring
The link was there last week. Now it's gone.
LinkRetriever re-checks every backlink you care about on a schedule, records what it finds, and tells you the moment a placement is removed, changed, or quietly set to nofollow.
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- Setup
- Nothing to install
- Blocked pages
- Retried in a browser
- Alerts
- Email and inbox
- engineeringweekly.dev/resources → yoursite.com/guide · anchor "field guide" 200 · live
- founderstack.io/tools link not found in latest crawl · was live 6d missing
- devlist.example/apps → yoursite.com · rel changed this week nofollow
- theweeklybyte.com/issue-84 → yoursite.com/blog · anchor "read more" 200 · live
The problem
Backlinks fail silently. You find out during the next audit.
Editors reorganize pages, migrations drop redirects, and a single CMS change can turn a hard-won dofollow into nothing. No one emails you when it happens.
Without monitoring
Guesswork and spreadsheets
The links you earned live in a spreadsheet that's out of date the day after you build it.
- × A placement is removed and the ranking slips before anyone notices
- × Anchor text or rel quietly changes value
- × Re-checking by hand doesn't scale past a few dozen links
With LinkRetriever
A record that checks itself
Each backlink becomes a monitor that revisits the source page on a schedule and keeps a full history of every check.
- ✓ Scheduled crawls confirm the link is still present and followed
- ✓ State changes land in an inbox and, if you want, your email
- ✓ Every check is logged with HTTP status, anchor, and rel tokens
How it works
Three steps, then it runs itself.
Add the placement
Record the source page and the destination you expect it to link to. Group monitors under the website they belong to.
We re-check it on a schedule
Every source page is revisited for you, at a pace that stays polite to the site hosting your link. Nothing runs on your machine. Need an answer now? Hit Check now.
Act when something changes
A clear history shows what changed and when. Grouped alerts reach your notification inbox and email so the right person can fix it.
The product
Your backlink health, at a glance.
The dashboard leads with what needs attention — not a wall of green checkmarks.
Dashboard
Your backlink health at a glance.
Needs attention All websites
Recent events Open inbox
Monitoring capabilities
Built to watch links carefully, not carelessly.
Presence & rel tracking
Confirms the link still exists, follows redirects safely, and flags changes to anchor text and rel tokens like nofollow or sponsored.
Scheduled checks
Every monitor is re-checked on a cadence and retried when a site is briefly unreachable, so a blip doesn't become a false alarm.
Full check history
Every check is stored with its HTTP status, links found, and any error — paginated so a monitor's whole record stays readable.
Grouped alerts
Related changes are grouped into a single notification so a bulk edit on one site doesn't bury your inbox.
Second-pass browser check
Pages that answer a plain request with a block or a JavaScript challenge get one more attempt in a real browser, so a defensive host doesn't read as a lost link.
Email & inbox
Every status change lands in your in-app inbox. Turn on email in settings and backlink changes and check failures reach you away from the app too.
Plans
Start free. Pay when the portfolio grows.
Every plan checks links the same way — scheduled crawls, browser fallback, change detection, inbox events, and email alerts. Only the volume changes.
Yearly runs twelve months for the price of ten.
Free
$0 forever
No card required
- 25 monitors
- 1 website
- Weekly checks
- 90 days of history
- Scheduled checks only
Solo
$12120 /month/year
or $120 yearly Saves $24 a year
- 500 monitors
- 3 websites
- Daily checks
- 1 year of history
- 5 manual checks a day
Pro
Most chosen$29290 /month/year
or $290 yearly Saves $58 a year
- 2,500 monitors
- 15 websites
- Daily checks
- Unlimited history
- 25 manual checks a day
Scale
$59590 /month/year
or $590 yearly Saves $118 a year
- 10,000 monitors
- 50 websites
- Daily checks
- Unlimited history
- 100 manual checks a day
Monitors above a downgraded plan's limit are paused, never deleted. Cancel any time through the secure billing portal.
The service
We run the checks. You keep the record.
How often is a link re-checked?
Each monitor runs on its own schedule, and anything that comes due is picked up within the minute. When you need an answer before the next run, Check now on any monitor checks it immediately — even one you've paused.
What if the source page blocks automated visitors?
A page that answers with a firewall block or a JavaScript challenge is retried once in a real browser, which clears most of them and finds links that only appear after the page renders. Interactive CAPTCHAs are reported as a failed check — we don't click through or work around them.
Are you polite to the sites you check?
Checks identify themselves as LinkRetrieverBot/1.0, arrive at a bounded rate, and read one page. Your links sit on other people's sites, and the service is built not to wear out its welcome on them.
How do I hear about a change?
Every change lands in your notification inbox, and email is there when you want a change to reach you away from the app. Related changes are grouped, so an editor reorganizing forty pages is one notification rather than forty.
Can I stop watching a link without losing its history?
Pause a monitor and the checks stop while the full record of what it found stays intact — resume whenever the placement matters again. Deleting a monitor removes it and its history for good.
Stop finding out at audit time.
Add the links you worked hardest to earn, and let LinkRetriever watch them for you.