TOOLS

Tools for the part of link building nobody automated

Prospect discovery has good software and outreach has good software. The work between them is still tabs and spreadsheets: deciding which of these pages is worth a message, ordering what survives, and checking afterwards whether the links are really there. That is the whole scope of WebDiagnosis. Two tools are live; two are being built and neither has a date.

QUALIFYAvailable now

Backlink Prospect Checker

Upload the URLs you already hold. Every exact page is opened and reported on: whether a comment form is open, what link type the page already gives its commenters, the Ahrefs DR, and how spammy the existing comments look. The output is a sortable report, not a score.

Six single-URL lookups collapse into one pass. The rows that cannot take a link leave before anyone opens a tab, and the shortlist arrives with the evidence attached, which is what makes it something a junior can work from and a client can be shown.

In: A list of prospect URLs
Out: A sortable report with a verdict per row

What it checks, and what it cannot

VERIFYAvailable now

Backlink Verifier

Enter the client domain and the pages where links were placed. Every page is opened and every link to the client is reported on its own row: the exact target URL, the anchor text, and whether it is follow, nofollow, UGC or sponsored. A page that cannot be read says Unable to Verify, never "link missing".

The check a client report depends on, done for a whole list in one pass instead of view-source and Ctrl+F on every page. Blocked and timed-out pages are kept apart from missing links, so nobody rebuilds a link that was never lost.

In: A client domain and the source pages
Out: Found, Not Found or Unable to Verify, with every link listed

What it checks, and what it cannot

Being built · no date

SORTIn build

Prospect List Sorter

Rank a prospect list against the site you are actually building links for.

Give it your site or campaign alongside the list. It orders the rows by how close each page sits to your subject, how much of a real site is behind it, and how useful it looks for this campaign rather than in the abstract. Relevance is a property of a pair, not of a URL, which is why this cannot be a column in the checker.

MONITORIn build

Bulk Link Checker and Monitor

Re-check the links you built on a schedule, and hear when one changes.

The Backlink Verifier answers whether a link is there today. Monitoring answers whether it is still there next month: it re-reads the same pages on a schedule and reports the links that disappeared, turned nofollow or ugc, changed anchor or target, or now sit behind a redirect, compared with the last reading. A link that quietly changed is worse than one that was never built, because you are still billing for it.

Neither is available, neither has a release date, and neither is part of any plan you can pay for. They are listed so you know what the tool you are using intends to become. Until they ship, the vetting checklist is how the sorting job gets done by hand.

BESIDE WHAT YOU ALREADY PAY FOR

This replaces none of your stack, and it is honest about which parts are better than it

Every tool below is good at the job it was built for. The comparison worth making is not which is better; it is what each one does when you hand it a spreadsheet of exact URLs somebody else assembled, because that is the input this whole category is bad at.

Tool	What it is genuinely good at	What it returns on a list you already hold
Ahrefs, Semrush	Finding prospects, and domain-level metrics at a scale nobody else can match. Better than us at both, permanently.	Domain metrics for the host. Nothing about whether this page takes a comment, what a link on it would carry, or what it is about.
Majestic	Topical Trust Flow is the most developed topical system in the market, across hundreds of categories.	What the link graph says about the domain. It measures who links to a site, not what a page is about, and it has nothing to say about a page with no links.
Pitchbox, Respona	Outreach at volume, with relevance built into how prospects are discovered in the first place.	Relevance is a property of how a prospect was found. A list you did not discover through them arrives with no judgement attached.
BuzzStream	Relationship and contact history. The CRM half of link building, which we do not touch.	A place to qualify the list by hand. That is stated plainly in their own product, and it is the labour this exists to remove.
Single-URL checkers	One question, answered free, in a second. Dofollow checkers, index checkers, DA checkers.	One question, one URL, one tab. Six questions across a hundred rows is six hundred lookups.
WebDiagnosis	Reading the exact pages on a list you already hold, and printing what was read.	Up to twelve checks per row in one pass, including a page topic and a site category read from the page itself, with the evidence and an explicit Unknown.

Where we are weaker, plainly

No discovery. If you need prospects found, that is Ahrefs, Semrush or a SERP scrape, and it always will be.
No index. Every answer comes from opening the page today, which means a page we cannot read has no answer at all.
No outreach, no CRM, no sending. The report ends where your outreach tool begins.
Page topic is identified on a minority of pages, because most pages on a bought list carry no evidence of a subject. It declines rather than inventing one.

Where nothing else does the job

Whether a comment form is open on this exact page today, in bulk.
What a link there would carry, read from links already in that thread rather than from a platform default.
What the page is about, from the page, on a list nobody discovered for you. Every other approach answers this from a link graph, an index, or discovery time.
All of it together, on one page load, so the answers describe the same moment.

If you are still working out which part of the job you actually need bought, the four stages of link prospecting sets out what discovery, qualification, outreach and monitoring each cover, and which of them already have good products.

WHY SEPARATE TOOLS

They are separate tools because they answer different questions

It would be simpler to sell one box that does everything. It would also be dishonest, because the jobs need different inputs and produce different kinds of answer.

Question	What it needs	What kind of answer	Tool
Can a link be placed on this page at all?	The page	Observed from the page, or Unknown	Live
Is this page relevant to my campaign?	The page and your site	A ranking, not a yes or no	In build
Is the link I built on this page, today, and what does it carry?	The page and your client’s domain	Found, Not Found or Unable to Verify, with every link listed	Live
Is it still there next month, and did anything about it change?	The page, and what it looked like last time	A change since a previous reading	In build

The middle row is why relevance is not simply a column in the checker. Relevance is a property of a pair, this page and your site, so it cannot be computed once and stored against a URL the way an open comment form can.

Start with the tools that run

The Backlink Prospect Checker and the Backlink Verifier share one account and one credit balance: 500 credits on first use, no card, and nothing is ever posted on your behalf.

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