Free Outbound Link Checker

Outbound links are how your site talks to the rest of the web. Google uses them as relevance signals: linking out to authoritative sources on the same topic reinforces what your page is about. The catch is that not every outbound link should pass authority. A link to a study you cited is editorial, and should be dofollow. A link to an affiliate partner is paid placement, and Google requires rel=sponsored. A link inside a blog comment is user-generated, and Google wants rel=ugc.Google's spam policies explicitly call out unnatural outbound linking patterns. If a manual reviewer finds paid links marked as dofollow, or UGC links without ugc, the site can get a manual action that suppresses rankings until the issue is cleaned up. The audit is straightforward but tedious across hundreds of pages, which is why most teams never do it properly.Our checker fetches any public URL, parses the rendered HTML, and walks every anchor tag with a cross-origin destination. It pulls the destination URL, anchor text, rel attribute, target, and classifies the link by type (social, docs, article, affiliate, comment, other). You get a sortable table that flags every missing rel attribute and every sponsored or ugc pattern that should be checked against your link policy. Audit 10 pages per hour, no signup.