Introducing Outbound Link Checker: Your Comprehensive Website Link Analysis Tool
Outbound Link Checker is a powerful web-based tool designed to simplify the process of scanning and analyzing outbound links on any website. With its advanced capabilities, this tool not only extracts all outbound links but also performs an in-depth analysis to identify potentially spammy websites across various niches. Whether you are concerned about the credibility of your own website's outbound links or want to assess the trustworthiness of external websites you're linking to, Outbound Link Checker has got you covered.
Key Features:
Complete Outbound Link Extraction: Outbound Link Checker scans every page of a website, efficiently extracting all outbound links. It saves you valuable time by automating this otherwise time-consuming task.
Niche-Specific Analysis: Our tool takes link analysis a step further by categorizing and identifying potentially spammy websites across several niches. It flags websites falling into spammy finance, pharma (e.g., Viagra-related), foreign non-English, gambling, or adult entertainment categories, enabling you to make informed decisions about your website's link associations.
Topic Coverage Insights: Outbound Link Checker goes beyond mere link analysis by providing a detailed overview of the topics covered by each website that is being linked out to. This feature allows you to gauge the relevance and appropriateness of the linked content and align it with your website's focus.
Google User-Agent Simulation: To ensure thorough analysis, Outbound Link Checker enables you to scan websites using a Google user-agent. This functionality helps uncover any hidden outbound cloaked links that may only be visible to search engine crawlers like Google. By mimicking Google's behavior, you can gain valuable insights into the hidden aspects of the linked websites.
User-Friendly Interface: Outbound Link Checker boasts an intuitive and user-friendly interface, making it accessible to both beginners and experienced professionals. Its straightforward navigation and clear presentation of results allow you to quickly grasp the link analysis findings and take appropriate actions.
Benefits:
Save Time: Automate the process of extracting outbound links and analyzing their trustworthiness across multiple niches.
Improve Website Credibility: Ensure that your website does not associate with spammy or inappropriate content.
Enhance User Experience: Provide your audience with links to relevant, reliable, and trustworthy websites.
Strengthen SEO Efforts: Uncover hidden cloaked links to understand how search engines perceive your website's linking behavior.
Make Informed Decisions: Obtain detailed insights into the topics covered by the linked websites to align with your website's focus.
In today's digital landscape, maintaining the integrity and credibility of your website is crucial. With Outbound Link Checker, you can confidently assess and manage your outbound links, ensuring a safe and trusted browsing experience for your visitors. Stay ahead of potential pitfalls and make informed decisions with our comprehensive link analysis tool.
Try Outbound Link Checker today and take control of your website's outbound links!
Hello everyone, in this video I'll be showing you how to use our link checker tool.
This tool will scan any website and check all your outbound links to make sure you’re not accidentally linking to a website you really don’t want to be linking to.
An example of how that might happen: somebody might post a blog comment on your website and include their own website—perhaps something about gambling—because they want a link from your site to theirs.
Another way it often happens is you might link to a website about cooking. You might link to your favourite recipe, but if the author loses interest in their blog or their business shuts down, that website might eventually expire. The domain can go up for auction and someone might buy it and repurpose it into a PBN, an adult website, a download site, or something you really don’t want to link to.
There are many reasons you don’t want to link to these types of sites. Firstly, if someone is at work browsing your website and they click a link expecting to see something about cooking and instead land on an adult site, that creates a terrible user experience and can damage your brand. Secondly, if your site is about cooking and Google sees you're linking to adult, pharma, or gambling sites, Google may not view your site as a legitimate authority in your niche.
There are a lot of configurable checks here, so let's go through them and explain how the tool works and how it detects these websites.
First off, you enter the website you want to scan for bad or spammy outbound links.
There are various niches of spammy websites that we look for, and we’ve broken them into categories: finance spam (e.g., payday loan websites), foreign language links (e.g., if your site is all in English but one of your outbound links points to a site full of Russian text), counterfeit items, pharma items (e.g., Viagra), adult links, and miscellaneous spam (e.g., free movies, torrent downloads, pirate sites, cracked software, weight loss pills—general spam).
We also check links that have been flagged as malicious by Google’s Safe Browsing database. After extracting all outbound links, we scan their content and then check them against Google’s database of malicious websites. Linking to one of these is extremely risky.
If your website legitimately belongs to one of these niches, you can untick the categories so that your normal links are not flagged. For example, if your website legitimately deals with finance and loans, you may want to turn off the finance category to avoid false positives.
All the words we look for when scanning the content of outbound links are editable. If you believe any may produce false positives, you can remove them before running the scan.
Next, some additional settings:
If you suspect your site has been hacked and is showing different links to Google than to normal users, you can run the scan using a Google user agent.
You can choose to show each outbound link only once to make results easier to read.
You can automatically trust well-known domains (based on the Majestic Million list) to speed up scans.
You can set the number of concurrent connections to use when scanning. If a site is strong, you can increase it; otherwise keep it around five to avoid being blocked.
Now let’s start a scan and look at some examples.
We scanned our own website quickly. It went through 112 pages and found just a few outbound links. None of them look spammy, except for one link to an Indian website where we flagged some foreign characters. Clicking the details button explains exactly why each link is flagged.
Next, we scanned a large cooking website and found several links the owner probably doesn't know about. One of the flagged links points to a gambling website based on certain keywords in its content. We opened the link, and yes—it is a gambling site. We then looked at the page it’s linked from and found the link in the source code. It was likely added through a blog comment, and the domain was either repurposed or used for spam backlinks.
Another site we scanned showed a similar issue: a link to a domain that has expired and been repurposed into a casino website.
Filtering options can help reduce false positives. For example, adult-related health sites might be flagged even though they are legitimate. You can adjust sensitivity to reduce these issues—lower sensitivity catches only obvious spam, higher sensitivity catches everything but may increase false positives.
You can also filter results by category and search through URLs, anchor text, or outbound links.
That concludes the basic demo. Hopefully you can see how useful this tool is: you point it at a website, it scans all outbound links, and checks for links you really don’t want—because they provide bad user experience and send bad SEO signals to Google. Linking to porn, gambling, or even malicious websites can seriously harm your site.
Thank you for watching.
