Profile totals and history
Review backlink, referring-domain, referring-page, broken-backlink, rank, and spam-score summaries beside the available historical chart.
Backlink Checker for Link-by-Link Analysis
Enter your website or a competitor domain to review backlink totals, referring domains, profile movement, source and target URLs, anchors, link attributes, broken destinations, and first-seen dates. Use every metric as investigation context—not an automatic verdict about a link.
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What is Screpy Backlink Checker?
Screpy Backlink Checker is a domain-level link analysis workflow for reviewing external pages that point to a website. Screpy combines profile totals, historical movement, link-level evidence, referring-domain and linked-page summaries, and export controls so teams can investigate changes without treating one proprietary metric as a Google verdict.
Measure the backlink profile
- Screpy Profile overview reports backlink, referring-domain, referring-page, broken-backlink, rank, and spam-score summaries for the entered domain.
- Screpy Historical chart shows how available backlink profile signals move across recorded dates.
- Screpy Referring-domain and linked-page summaries identify the websites sending links and the destination pages receiving them.
Inspect every recorded link
- Screpy Backlink rows keep the referring domain, source URL, target URL, and anchor text together for manual review.
- Screpy Link context reports rank, page rank, domain rank, spam score, dofollow or nofollow status, source status code, and semantic location when available.
- Screpy Sorting and pagination make large result sets reviewable without reducing the profile to one summary number.
Track changes and recovery work
- Screpy New, lost, and broken states surface link records that may deserve a live source-page or destination check.
- Screpy First-seen and last-seen dates distinguish a recent discovery from an older record that later disappeared.
- Screpy Broken-backlink review helps teams find external links whose destination may need restoration or a relevant redirect.
Make evidence-based decisions
- Screpy CSV and Excel exports preserve the current backlink result set for investigation, handoff, or comparison.
- Screpy Review metrics support relative comparison; spam or rank scores do not prove that Google trusts, ignores, or penalizes a link.
- Screpy Disavow Management is a separate, cautious workflow for project domains when removal efforts and Google guidance justify action.
Start with the size and direction of the profile.
Enter a domain to compare total backlinks, referring domains, referring pages, broken backlinks, rank context, spam score, and the available historical chart before opening individual records.
- Search your website or a competitor domain
- Compare profile totals before individual links
- Read historical movement as a trend, not a guarantee
Keep the source, anchor, target, and context together.
Review each recorded source page beside its anchor, destination, rank signals, follow attribute, source status, semantic location, and first-seen date instead of judging the link from its domain alone.
- Open the referring page and destination
- Compare anchor and link attributes
- Sort the fields behind the current question
Investigate new, lost, and broken records before acting.
Use status flags and seen dates to find the records that changed, then confirm the live source and destination before restoring a page, changing a redirect, contacting a publisher, or documenting a loss.
- Separate discovery from verified live change
- Recover useful links to missing destinations
- Export the reviewed result set for handoff
Move from individual links to referring-domain patterns.
Group the profile by linking domain when you need to understand source diversity, review every recorded link from one website, or separate a domain-level pattern from a single unusual page.
Learn more about domain patterns- Compare linking domains instead of raw link count alone
- Open the backlinks associated with one domain
- Keep disavow review separate from discovery
Inspect the profile, the link record, and the change behind it.
Screpy combines domain-level totals with the link-level fields needed to investigate who links, where the link appears, which page receives it, how the record changed, and what should be verified next.
Source, anchor, and target evidence
Keep the referring domain and page, visible anchor text, and destination URL together so every backlink can be checked in context.
Relative review metrics
Compare backlink rank, page rank, domain rank, and spam score as investigation signals without treating them as Google metrics or automatic harm labels.
Link attributes and location
Review dofollow or nofollow status, source status code, and reported semantic location to understand how the link appears on its source page.
New, lost, and broken states
Surface records marked new, lost, or broken so the source page and destination can be verified before recovery or outreach work begins.
First-seen and last-seen dates
Use discovery dates to distinguish a recently found record from an older link whose latest observed state has changed.
Domain, anchor, and linked-page summaries
Move from the full link list to aggregated referring domains, anchor patterns, and destination pages when the question concerns profile structure.
CSV and Excel exports
Download the current result set for closer investigation, stakeholder handoff, or a dated comparison outside the dashboard.
Turn a backlink total into a verified investigation.
Start with one domain and a dated baseline, isolate the records behind the movement, verify important source and destination pages, then take only the action the evidence supports.
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Choose the domain behind the question
Enter your own website for monitoring and recovery work or a competitor domain for research. Keep the same normalized target when comparing two reporting dates.
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Establish the profile baseline
Record backlink, referring-domain, referring-page, broken-backlink, rank, and spam-score summaries, then read the historical chart for the direction and timing of visible movement.
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Move from the change to its records
Review new, lost, or broken states and sort the table by the field relevant to the question. Keep the source, anchor, target, link type, dates, and metrics together.
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Verify the source and destination live
Open important referring pages and target URLs before assigning a cause. A discovery state or score is a lead for investigation, not proof that a link exists, disappeared, helps, or harms rankings.
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Take the smallest justified action
Restore a useful destination, add a relevant redirect, contact the publisher when appropriate, document the loss, or export the evidence. Use disavow only in the separate controlled workflow when Google guidance supports it.
Use backlink data where the next decision is clear.
The same dataset can support migration recovery, earned-media review, competitor research, and protection of linked content when each investigation begins with a specific question.
Recover links after a migration
Find external links whose destination is unavailable after URL changes, then choose between restoring the page and adding the closest relevant redirect.
- Broken destinations
- Changed URLs
- Relevant recovery path
Review earned-link and digital PR results
Inspect newly discovered sources, anchors, destination pages, and follow attributes, then verify the live placements behind a campaign update.
- New source pages
- Campaign destinations
- Live placement check
Research a competitor profile
Enter a competitor domain to study available referring sources, linked pages, anchors, and profile movement without assuming the dataset reveals how or why each link was earned.
- Source patterns
- Linked-page patterns
- Research context
Protect pages that attract links
Identify destination pages receiving external links before consolidating content, changing URLs, removing pages, or redesigning internal publishing workflows.
- Linked destinations
- Content consolidation
- Redirect planning
Keep backlink metrics inside their real limits.
Backlink datasets are sampled observations of a changing web. Screpy surfaces evidence for review without presenting coverage, scores, or timing labels as complete or causal search-engine data.
No backlink index covers the whole web
Discovery and recrawl schedules differ between tools. A missing record does not prove that a live link does not exist, and a stored record may need a fresh source-page check.
Review metrics are not Google verdicts
Rank and spam scores help compare records inside the dataset. They do not prove ranking value, search-engine trust, a penalty, or the need to remove a link.
New and lost describe observed data
A state can change because a page was recrawled, redirected, unavailable, reclassified, or newly discovered. Confirm important changes on the live source and destination.
Profile movement does not prove causation
A backlink gain or loss can coincide with ranking movement without causing it. Compare content, technical changes, search demand, competitors, and Search Console evidence before drawing a conclusion.
Choose the link workflow that matches the decision.
Inspect individual backlinks for evidence, group sources by domain when the pattern matters, or manage a carefully justified disavow file for a project you control.
Search a domain, review profile movement and individual link records, and export the current backlink result set.
Group backlinks by the websites providing them and open the recorded links associated with one source domain.
Organize selected URLs or domains for a project you control and export a file only when removal efforts and Google guidance justify it.
Screpy documentation
Learn how to analyze backlinks
Use the Screpy guide to review backlink data, investigate referring pages, and evaluate changes without relying on one metric alone.
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Read articleBacklink checker questions, answered.
Understand what Screpy reports, how backlink and referring-domain records differ, why datasets change, and when a metric or disavow action needs extra caution.
What does a backlink checker show?
A backlink checker shows external links pointing to a website. Useful details include the referring domain, source page, target URL, anchor text, follow status, discovery status, and available quality signals.
What is the difference between a backlink and a referring domain?
A backlink is one recorded link from a source page to a target URL. A referring domain is the website that hosts one or more of those source pages. One domain can contribute many backlinks, so raw link count and domain diversity answer different questions.
Why should I monitor new and lost backlinks?
New and lost states help narrow an investigation, but they can reflect discovery timing, recrawling, changed source pages, redirects, or unavailable destinations. Verify the live source and target before concluding that a campaign gained a link or that a publisher removed one.
What is a broken backlink?
A broken backlink is an external link pointing to a URL that no longer works as expected. Restoring the page or adding an appropriate redirect may improve the visitor journey and preserve useful link value.
What do dofollow and nofollow mean in the report?
The field records the link attribute reported for the backlink. It is useful context, but it does not by itself prove how much ranking value a search engine assigns to the link or whether the link is editorially useful.
Does a spam score prove that a backlink is harmful?
No. Spam, rank, page-rank, and domain-rank metrics are third-party review signals rather than Google metrics or penalty decisions. Check the source, relevance, link pattern, target page, acquisition history, and any Search Console manual action before choosing an action.
Why can backlink totals differ between SEO tools?
Each backlink service discovers, recrawls, stores, deduplicates, and classifies the web on its own schedule. Coverage and freshness therefore differ. Use one consistent source for trend comparisons and verify important links on the live source page.
Can I analyze a competitor domain?
Yes. Enter another valid domain to review the backlink profile available for that target. Treat the result as research context: it does not reveal private outreach, contracts, traffic value, or why any specific link was earned.
Does Screpy remove or disavow backlinks automatically?
No. Backlink Checker is an analysis workflow. Disavow Management is separate and is available only for project domains you control. Google says most sites do not need the disavow tool and warns that incorrect use can harm search performance.
Find the link. Verify the evidence. Protect the right page.
Build a backlink baseline, investigate the source and destination behind meaningful changes, and keep every recovery or risk decision tied to evidence rather than one score.