Check whether your backlinks are still live and dofollow

The system checks each backlink on your list and tells you if it's live, lost, or nofollow.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per one per backlink url.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

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Starts itRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
SEO & Search OptimizationImage & Media ProcessingSpreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
Google SheetsDataForSEO

The problem it solves

You built up backlinks to help your SEO, but you have no easy way to know if they're still there months later. Sites remove links, change them to nofollow, or take pages down entirely, and you'd never know unless you checked each one by hand.

Who it fits

A marketer, SEO specialist, or small business owner tracking their backlink profile.

How it works

  1. You keep a list of backlink URLs and their target pages in a spreadsheet
  2. The system checks each one against the live page
  3. It determines whether the link is still there, and whether it's dofollow or nofollow
  4. The status is written back to the spreadsheet as Live, Lost, or Lost (Nofollow)
What you get

Backlinks you know are live before a client asks

You get a clear status on every backlink, showing which ones are live, lost, or downgraded to nofollow.

What you get

An updated spreadsheet showing the current status of every backlink you're tracking.

What you need

A Google Sheets account and a DataForSEO API subscription.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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