Toxic Backlink Checker to Check and Expose Bad Links

Toxic Backlink Checker

To check and expose bad links

Get rid of spammy backlinks and improve your rank in Google

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High-end Google Penalty risk estimation algorithm

Free disavow file generator for spammy backlinks

Scheduled backlink audits and alerts

Find and remove every toxic backlink

Low-quality, spammy backlinks may result in Google penalty, putting your overall site rankings at risk. That is why toxic backlinks need to be instantly detected and neutralized. No matter if they are the result of your own black-hat link building practices or your competitors' negative SEO.

The Penalty Risk Link Audit feature in SEO SpyGlass lets you automatically detect each and every toxic link in your backlink profile and keep your site safe from Google's link penalties.

Get all the benefits of bad links detox

Get your backlink audit in 5 steps

  1. Run the backlink analysis checker to audit your website
  2. Get a detailed analysis of your backlinks profile
  3. Find all toxic backlinks in your site's backlink profile
  4. Estimate Penalty Risk for harmful links and generate disavow file
  5. Download your disavow file and submit it to Google Disavow Tool

Boost your backlink profile with SEO SpyGlass

Easily check and remove toxic backlinks & create disavow files

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How toxic backlink checker finds spam backlinks

Since the Penguin Penalty release, Google has been mastering its guidelines on quality content. That's why a lot of controversy arises around link risks and how to handle them.

In SEO SpyGlass, we've built this comprehensive toxic backlinks checker to help you make sense of what is truly harmful to your site's backlink profile. The tool is set to analyze your links in the same way as Google does.

Our backlink analysis tool covers factors like:

Penalty Risk calculation algorithms

How we identify toxic backlinks

In the early years of Google PageRank, SEOs used spammy link-building schemes to artificially flow more link juice to their websites. Usually, these links came from link directories, PBNs, and paid link schemes, which did not add value for visitors. This made Google develop an algorithm that would penalize and de-rank web pages for having such toxic backlinks.

To simplify SEO routine, most spam checkers estimate penalty risk for backlinks. Our toxic backlink checker tool generates the Penalty Risk score for a site in general and for each link individually. The spam score takes into account such metrics as:

After the checker completes the scan, the percentage value of Penalty Risk is calculated. This score shows the likelihood of a backlink to cause a Google algorithm penalty. This metric points to all dangerous backlinks you need to immediately steer clear of.

Audit your site's backlink health

Step 1. Run backlink analysis with SEO SpyGlass to overview your site

SEO SpyGlass analyzes the backlink profile in its whole complexity: domain authority and PageRank flow, inbound and outbound links, and your top referring TLDs. You can also see most common backlink countries, whether too many links come from the same C-Class blocks / IPs, content is linked with diverse anchors, or anchors are optimized for the same keywords. The Summary dashboard helps you quickly determine if the website has a good backlink profile.

Step 2. Analyze your backlinks in detail

In the Backlinks submodule, you will find detailed backlink analytics: the upper dashboard shows general insights into the backlinks history and the link type ratio. Quick filters let you sort all backlinks by dofollow/nofollow type, differentiate between text and image links, and find which websites are referring from their homepages. You can recheck backlinks altogether or each link separately. Just right-click on a linked page and see from which pages the backlink was generated.

Step 3. Find toxic backlinks in your site's backlink profile

Now look at the Penalty Risk column. The green zone is a place of good backlinks. They are totally safe, so don't focus on them. Those in the orange zone require a deeper investigation of penalty risk factors. You need to understand if they are a real threat to your domain score, or are fine to keep. The links in the red zone definitely bring you no use and may even cause a Google algorithm penalty. Get rid of them, especially if their quantity is unforgivingly huge.

How to remove toxic backlinks affecting your site

Contact the webmasters of the referring websites asking them to take down the backlinks you don't want. If it fails, disavow the links using the free disavow tool from Google.

Use a disavow file generator in SEO SpyGlass

Evaluate any web page based on top-ranking competitors and your on-page stats. The tool delivers keyword- and URL-specific optimization advice and reverse-engineers your competitors' strategies to see what exactly makes them rank high.

FAQ

What is a toxic backlink?

A toxic backlink is a dofollow backlink that comes from a low-authority source (like PBNs or mirror pages) or can be potentially harmful to your site's rank and reputation. Usually, harmful backlinks are the result of paid link schemes and other malpractices performed to artificially increase PageRank flow. However, such backlinks may also be the result of your competitors' negative SEO campaigns aimed at de-ranking your website.

What is Google Disavow Tool?

Google Disavow Tool is an advanced feature that is used to tell Google to ignore certain backlinks or even domains when calculating your PageRank score and reputation. The tool should be used with caution; if treated carelessly, it may badly harm your performance in search results.

What is a disavow file?

A disavow file is a .txt format file you submit to Google. It contains a list of backlinks you want to discard.