Link Checker
Extract and analyze every link on a page.
Pull every link from any page with nofollow/dofollow, internal/external and anchor-text detail.
What you get
Everything Link Checker delivers, out of the box.
All links extracted
nofollow / dofollow
Anchor-text audit
Free to use
How it works
From input to insight in three steps.
Enter your URL or keyword
Point Link Checker at any page, domain or search term, yours or a competitor's.
SEO Roger analyzes it
We run the analysis with our crawler and validators in seconds.
Get a prioritized report
Read a clear, ranked breakdown of exactly what to do next.
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What is Link Checker?
The Link Checker extracts every link from a single page and reports them with full detail: internal or external, follow or nofollow, the anchor text and the destination. It is free on every plan.
How to use Link Checker
From signup to shipped fix, this is the whole loop.
- 1Create a free accountSign up in under a minute. No credit card is required, and your first site scan works without an account at all.
- 2Point Link Checker at your siteEnter the URL or domain you want to analyze. You can run it on your own site or on a competitor's.
- 3Let it pull the live dataLink Checker fetches the current state of the page or domain and runs its checks. Most runs finish in seconds.
- 4Read the ranked findingsResults come back ordered by impact rather than by count, so the issue costing you the most traffic is at the top, not buried under cosmetic warnings.
- 5Ship the fix, then re-runApply the recommended change, or let Roger AI draft it for you, then run the tool again to confirm the issue is resolved and track the improvement.
Why Link Checker matters
What a page links to, and how, is a set of deliberate signals that almost nobody reviews. Rendered pages hide this: links are styled text, and the attributes that change their meaning are invisible. Extracting them as a list is the only practical way to see what a page is actually telling search engines.
Search is no longer only Google. ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude answer a growing share of queries by reading the same pages crawlers do, then citing a handful of sources. SEO Roger keeps both audiences in view: the classic SERP and the AI answer, from one workspace.
Who it's for
- In-house SEOs who need crawling, indexing and structured data without stitching three tools together
- Agencies and consultants producing client-ready findings, fast
- Founders and marketers who want the fix, not just the metric
Link Checker in depth
The rel attributes and what they mean now
nofollow originally told search engines not to pass value through a link. Since 2019 Google treats it as a hint rather than a directive, and two more specific values exist: sponsored for paid or affiliate links, and ugc for user-generated content such as comments. Paid links without sponsored or nofollow are a guidelines violation, so this is worth checking on any page carrying advertising or affiliate content.
Auditing outbound links
Linking out to credible sources is good practice and supports your own credibility. What you want to avoid is linking to sites that have since become spam, expired domains taken over by someone else, or anything you would not vouch for today. Old posts are the usual offenders, because the link was fine when written and the destination changed hands years later.
Anchor text tells you what a page is voting for
Listing anchors reveals patterns invisible when reading. A page whose internal links all say read more is wasting a signal it controls entirely. A page with dozens of exact-match commercial anchors pointing at one destination looks manipulative. The distribution is easy to assess as a list and effectively impossible to assess while reading the page.
Checking a competitor's page
Running this on a page that outranks you shows how they have structured their linking: which internal pages they consider related, how they handle outbound citations, and whether they are passing or withholding value. It is all public information in the page source, and it is a fast way to understand how a site is organized around a topic.
Link Checker questions, answered
Does it cost credits?
No. The Link Checker is free on every plan.
How is this different from the Broken Link Checker?
Scope and question. This extracts and describes every link on one page, whether or not it works. The Broken Link Checker crawls many pages looking specifically for links that no longer resolve. Use this to audit one page's linking, and that to find breakage across a site.
Does nofollow still block value from passing?
Not reliably. Google has treated nofollow as a hint rather than a directive since 2019, meaning it may choose to consider the link anyway. It still signals your intent, and it remains required for paid links, but it is no longer a guarantee about what a search engine does.
Should I nofollow all external links?
No. Linking out to genuinely useful sources is normal and beneficial, and blanket nofollowing everything is an outdated tactic that helps nobody. Reserve nofollow and sponsored for paid, affiliate and untrusted links, which is what they exist for.
How many outbound links is too many?
There is no numeric limit worth worrying about. What matters is whether they are relevant and useful. A well-researched reference article with fifty citations is fine. A thin page with fifty unrelated commercial links is not, and the problem there is the relevance rather than the count.
Can I run it on any page?
Yes, any publicly reachable URL, including competitors. Pages behind a login are not accessible, since the tool fetches anonymously in the same way a crawler does.
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