Trace every backlink. Catch them the moment they break.
TraceLinker scores every link pointing at your domain 1-100 with reasoning you can read, watches them on a schedule, and drafts the reclaim email before you notice the link is gone. GSC + CSV. No Ahrefs subscription needed.
- No card to start
- 1-100 quality score with the why
- Email + Slack the second a link breaks
- 92Valuabletechcrunch.com“best SaaS 2026”
- 87Valuablegithub.com/awesome-seo“AI tools”
- 54Not Valuablemedium.com/@author“click here”
- 18Not Valuablespam-blog.xyz“buy now”
Why SEO professionals switch
The gaps in your current stack, closed
Most backlink tools have the same blind spots. Here is how TraceLinker closes each one.
×Lost backlinks: discovered weeks after they died.
✓Hourly, daily, or weekly re-crawls. Email + Slack the moment a link transitions alive → changed → dead.
×Black-box scores. "It's a 47." Cool. Why?
✓Every score ships with one-sentence AI reasoning plus 3-5 concrete next steps for that specific link.
×Ahrefs charges $129/mo for tools you barely touch.
✓Free covers 1 audit + 5 monitored. Pro $9. Agency $29 with hourly checks and white-label reports. That's it.
×Link dies. Now you write the outreach email yourself.
✓TraceLinker auto-drafts a polite reclaim email the second a link breaks - with the source's contact email pre-extracted.
×Toxic backlinks tank rankings before you spot them.
✓AI flags PBN, spam, and suspicious-context links. One click downloads a Google-ready Disavow file.
×You can see competitor backlinks. Acting on them takes hours.
✓Drop a competitor CSV. TraceLinker surfaces every domain that links to them but not you, plus AI cold pitches.
How it works
From sign-up to first audit in three steps
No setup wizard, no sales call. Connect, trace, monitor.
Connect in 60 seconds
Magic-link sign-in, then read-only OAuth into Google Search Console - or paste a CSV from any tool you already pay for.
AI traces every link
We crawl each source page and DeepSeek scores it 1-100 with explicit reasoning. Toxic links get flagged for the disavow file.
Watch + reclaim
Pick the links worth monitoring. We re-check on schedule, alert on every state change, and auto-draft outreach when a link breaks.
Capabilities
Built for serious SEO work
Score 1-100 with reasoning
Our AI rates content relevance, anchor quality, and dofollow status - every score comes with transparent reasoning, not a black box.
“High-authority source, topically relevant, anchor natural, dofollow link.”
Auto-checks, full change log
- techcrunch.comalive
- medium.com/postanchor changed
- old-blog.xyzremoved
Verified sites + URL inspection
Read-only OAuth into GSC. Auto-detect your target domain from your verified sites.
Know the moment a backlink changes
Emails on every state transition (alive → changed → dead). Transition-only - no spam.
Trace every link, score every link
Drop a CSV or OAuth into GSC. TraceLinker crawls each source page and DeepSeek scores it 1-100 - with a one-sentence reasoning so you can audit the AI itself. Toxic links get flagged and exported as a Google Disavow file in one click.
- GSC + any CSV
- Read-only Google Search Console OAuth. CSV from Ahrefs, Semrush, anywhere.
- Score with reasoning
- Every 1-100 score has the AI's actual rationale next to it.
- Toxic + disavow
- PBN/spam/adult markers detected. One-click Google-ready disavow.txt.
Catch every change. Reclaim every loss.
Pick the links worth monitoring. TraceLinker re-crawls on schedule and pings you only on real state changes - alive → changed → dead. The moment a link breaks, we draft the outreach email with the source's contact email already pre-filled.
- Transition-only alerts
- Email + Slack the moment a link's state changes. Never on the same state twice.
- Auto-drafted reclaim
- Lost-link outreach is pre-written and ready to send the second a link dies.
- Frequency per plan
- Weekly on Free. Daily on Pro. Hourly on Agency.
Everything you need for backlinks.
Audits, monitoring, alerts, and analytics - all in one clean dashboard.
AI score with reasoning
1-100 quality scores from DeepSeek. Every score ships with an actual sentence of reasoning - no black box.
Lost-link reclaim
Link breaks → AI drafts the outreach email → contact email pre-extracted from the source page. Send in two clicks.
Toxic detection + disavow
AI flags PBN, spam, and suspicious-context links. Generate a Google-ready disavow.txt file in one click.
Competitor gap analysis
Drop a competitor's backlink CSV. TraceLinker shows every domain that links to them but not yet to you - plus AI-drafted cold pitches.
Scheduled monitoring
Hourly, daily, or weekly re-crawls per link. Email + Slack on every state transition - never on noise.
Domain backlink score
One number 0-100 summarizing your whole profile (quality + diversity + toxicity). Embed the badge anywhere.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Stop guessing. Start tracing.
Your first audit runs
in 60 seconds
Free forever. Drop a CSV, watch TraceLinker score every backlink with reasoning you can actually read. No card, no demo call.