Backlink Audit FAQ for Verify Backlinks™

If you have never used Verify Backlinks before, start with Sign up with email to create your account. If you already have an account, use Login.

Once logged in, you can start the free trial or run a paid backlink audit. The same account gives access to both.

Verify Backlinks is a live backlink audit engine. It checks submitted backlink URLs directly on the live URL, then returns link-level results, backlink quality signals, toxic backlink checks and clear Keep, Review or Consider disavow decisions.

Each completed audit generates a PDF report, an Excel workbook and a disavow.txt suggestion file.

Yes. Upload the backlink Excel or CSV file you already have from an SEO tool, vendor, agency or outreach workflow. The audit engine checks the listed backlink URLs live and keeps results traceable to the uploaded file.

Upload your backlink Excel or CSV list and run a Pre-Index Backlink Audit. The audit engine performs live URL checks, records no-link and HTTP errors, evaluates follow type, backlink quality signals, toxic backlink signals and indexability fields, then returns clear link-level outcomes in Excel and PDF.

Yes. Run a separate Post-Index Backlink Audit after indexing to confirm whether backlinks still exist on the live URL and whether placement, follow type, indexability or quality signals changed.

No. Verify Backlinks does not edit, remove or submit anything. The audit engine analyzes your backlink list and creates review outputs, so you or your SEO team stay fully in control.

No. Verify Backlinks is pay per audit. No subscriptions. No automatic renewals.

If you are new, create your account with Sign up with email. If you already have an account, use Login.

Then upload your backlink Excel or CSV file. The free trial audits the first 5 valid backlink URLs using the same audit format as a paid run, including live URL checks, backlink quality review, toxic backlink checks, PDF, Excel and disavow.txt suggestion output.

No. The free trial uses the same Verify Backlinks audit engine as a paid audit. It is limited to the first 5 valid backlink URLs, but the checks and output structure are real.

The free trial is intended as a one-time preview. After that, you can run paid backlink audits whenever you need.

Upload the backlink Excel or CSV you already have from vendors, outreach campaigns, agencies or SEO tools. Multiple sheets, visible URLs, clickable hyperlinks and mixed column naming are supported.

Yes. The audit engine reads URLs, anchor text and available text context from the uploaded file and applies the same backlink audit workflow to every detected URL.

Supported languages include: EN, DE, FR, ES, NL, PT, IT, SV, NO, DA, FI, JA, KO, HE, RU, TR, VI, ID, PL, RO, BG, UA, AR, HI, TH and ZH_CN.

Mixed-language backlink lists are supported.

Every backlink row includes source fields such as Filename, Sheet name, Original row number and, when available, Input Sr. No.. This keeps each audit result tied to the exact input row.

Original row number is the exact row in the uploaded Excel or CSV file where the backlink URL was found. This makes it easier to compare the audit output with the original backlink list.

Filename is the uploaded file name. Sheet name is the worksheet the backlink row came from. Input Sr. No. is the row identifier from your uploaded sheet when that column is available.

Yes. Verify Backlinks works as a backlink quality checker for uploaded backlink lists. It checks link presence, follow type, placement, topical relevance, page context, technical signals, toxic backlink signals and disavow risk per URL.

Yes. The audit checks toxic backlink signals such as suspicious anchors, risky content signals, low-quality patterns, manipulation footprints, poor placement, no-link results and technical blockers.

In the Results tab you can review link-level fields such as Link, Follow type, Risk label, Toxic score, Toxic explanation, Placement, Topical score, Manipulation pattern score, Link power, Link quality score, Indexing recommendation and Original row number.

Language context shows whether the backlink page language matches the target language of your project. The Results tab can include Target language, Detected language, Language category, Language relation, Language naturalness and Language score modifier.

Risk label reflects content safety and can be clean, adult, gambling or drugs. Toxic score reflects SEO risk and ranges from 0, which is good, to 100, which is extremely bad. They measure different types of risk and both appear per link.

Follow type is the detected link attribute result for that backlink URL. It can show dofollow, nofollow, no link when the backlink is not found, or error when the page could not be fetched.

Topical score is a 0 to 100 relevance score for the backlink context. It helps indicate whether a backlink page appears topically aligned with the target domain or niche.

Manipulation pattern score is a 0 to 100 indicator for possible footprint, linkfarm, PBN, affiliate or artificial placement patterns. Use it alongside Toxic score and Topical score during review.

Link power is a per-link strength indicator in EXTREME mode. It helps compare backlinks and source domains during review.

Link quality score summarizes multiple quality signals into one comparable field, helping you sort and filter backlinks faster alongside Toxic score, Topical score and Manipulation pattern score.

These fields describe the page environment around the backlink. Placement detail shows where the link appears. Word count, Links on page and Text-link ratio help identify thin pages, overloaded pages or low-value placements.

These fields show technical signals. Noindex means the page signals it should not be indexed. Canonical shows the detected canonical URL. Canonical mismatch means the canonical points elsewhere. Robots blocked indicates crawl restrictions. Duplicate status and Duplicate of row help identify repeated input entries.

Indexing recommendation is the practical output label for each backlink. It can show Index, Noindex or Consider disavow. Use it as a review guide, not as an automatic action.

High-risk is a reporting label for backlinks that deserve attention during review. It is reflected in the Excel Results tab and summarized in the PDF.

You receive a PDF report, a full Excel workbook and a disavow.txt suggestion file.

The PDF gives a fast summary of backlink health, risk distribution, quality signals, high-risk links and clear Keep, Review or Consider disavow outcomes. Use it for quick review, client reporting and decision-making.

The legend explains follow type, indexing recommendation, Risk label and Toxic score. It also clarifies that Risk label reflects content safety while Toxic score reflects SEO risk.

These values summarize the backlink profile. They include overall health, projected health after cleanup, bad quality ratio, bad risk ratio, average LinkPower, average topical relevance, average manipulation pattern score, total links and high-risk backlinks.

Use Results for the full link-level table. Use Summary for counts. Use Explanation for column definitions. Use Decision Matrix for recommendation guidance. Use Tier Summary, Domain Authority and Authority Summary for profile-level review.

Results contains every backlink row. Summary shows counts by follow type and risk label. Explanation defines each column. Decision Matrix explains Index, Noindex and Consider disavow outcomes. Tier Summary shows tier distribution. Domain Authority and Authority Summary provide source-domain and profile-level rollups.

Decision Matrix is a reading guide for output labels such as Index, Noindex and Consider disavow. It helps users interpret recommendations consistently across audits.

Summary provides counts by follow type and risk label. It helps you quickly understand how many backlinks were dofollow, nofollow, no link, error, clean or risk-labelled.

Explanation defines the Results columns and helps you interpret fields such as Link, Follow type, Risk label, Toxic score, Placement, Topical score, Manipulation pattern score, Link power, Indexing recommendation and Original row number.

Domain Authority is a referring-domain rollup in EXTREME mode. It includes source-domain values such as total links, dofollow links, tier distribution, risky links, Avg LinkPower and Max toxic score.

Domain authority score is an EXTREME mode rollup indicator. Use it together with Avg LinkPower, risky links and Max toxic score to prioritize domain-level review.

Authority Summary contains profile-level metric values, including backlink health, projected health after cleanup, quality ratios, risk ratios, average LinkPower, topical relevance, manipulation pattern score, total links and high-risk links.

Yes. Links marked Consider disavow are collected into a disavow.txt suggestion file for manual review.

It is a suggestion based on the audit results. Always review it first in the Excel and PDF context. Nothing is applied automatically.

No. Nothing is submitted automatically. You decide if and when to upload anything to Google Search Console.

The disavow.txt suggestion includes only backlinks marked Consider disavow in the audit outputs. Noindex or error results are not automatically treated as disavow links.

Domain entries can be used when multiple risky links come from the same source domain. Individual URLs can be listed when specific pages are flagged. This keeps the suggestion reviewable.

Protected domain is the target domain being protected by the audit. It appears as a comment in the disavow file for traceability.

Choose the audit package that fits your backlink file. If you are new, create your account with Sign up with email. If you already have an account, use Login. After payment, upload your backlink Excel or CSV in the dashboard and start the audit.

Pricing can depend on live package settings, currency and audit capacity, so current prices are shown on the pricing page. The FAQ explains the model.

Verify Backlinks is pay per audit. Choose an audit size, pay once and receive the completed PDF, Excel and disavow.txt outputs. No subscriptions and no automatic renewals.

Pricing is based on audit capacity and processing resources. You always see the price before checkout.

The audit processes backlinks up to the selected plan capacity, and the report shows how many were audited.

Processing time depends on file size, live URL response times and system load. Once complete, your PDF, Excel and disavow.txt suggestion are ready to download.

Errors are captured in the report so you can review them beside the other backlink fields and recommendation labels.

Error message appears when a backlink cannot be verified. Examples include Backlink not found, Connection failed, Timeout or HTTP errors. The field appears per link in Results and in the PDF tables.

No. Verify Backlinks only needs your uploaded backlink Excel or CSV file. You remain in full control of any actions you take after the audit.

Audit data is retained only for the minimum time required to process and deliver your outputs. Details are covered in the Privacy Policy and Data Processing Agreement.