Link Health Checker
Paste a page's HTML to audit its outbound links — broken-format URLs, anchor-text variety, dofollow/nofollow distribution, and the rel attributes that should and should not be there.
Why Audit Links on a Single Page
Most link-audit tools crawl a whole site and surface dashboard-level metrics. This one does the opposite — it inspects a single page in depth, the way a human editor would before publishing. That focus catches problems site-wide crawls miss: an article with 14 links that all use the exact same anchor text, a sponsored post that forgot `rel='sponsored'`, an outbound link to a competitor that is dofollow by accident, an internal link still pointing at the staging domain. None of those make a crawl alarm fire because they are not 404s — they are stylistic and structural issues a crawler cannot judge. Use this before publishing, after a content refresh, or whenever you inherit a site and need to inspect the most important pages by hand. Complements the broader graph view in the Internal Link Visualizer.
How the Per-Link Analysis Works
Paste the page's HTML — entire document or the article body — and the parser extracts every `<a>` element. For each link the tool records the href, the visible anchor text, the rel attribute, whether it is internal or external (based on the optional base-URL field), and whether the URL parses as well-formed. The summary section reports anchor-text diversity (warning if one phrase dominates), the dofollow/nofollow split, the count of empty-anchor and image-only links, and any URLs that fail to parse. Each external link without a `rel` attribute is flagged with a suggestion (`noopener noreferrer` for any link opening in a new tab is a security-not-SEO baseline; `nofollow` or `sponsored` for paid or untrusted destinations). The output is a sortable table — click any column header to re-rank.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will the checker actually crawl each link to look for 404s?+
No. It analyzes the HTML you paste — URL syntax, anchor text, rel attributes — without making any network request. For actual reachability checks, use a server-side crawler. This tool runs entirely in the browser.
What anchor-text concentration is too high?+
A rough threshold: if one phrase accounts for more than 40 percent of your link anchors on a page, Google may interpret the page as keyword-stuffed for that phrase. The tool flags at 30 percent so you have margin.
Is rel='nofollow' still meaningful in 2026?+
Yes — Google now treats nofollow as a hint rather than a directive, but most other crawlers still honor it strictly, and the explicit signal protects you from any algorithm that does. Sponsored content should use rel='sponsored' as the dedicated value.
What about rel='ugc' for comments?+
Use it on user-generated content sections — forum posts, comment threads, anything the page author did not personally vouch for. The tool does not auto-add it; you tell it which section is UGC by including a parent attribute or by running each section separately.
Can I check internal links to my own site?+
Yes. Set the base-URL field to your domain and any link with that host is classified as internal. Internal links are reported separately and not held to the same rel-attribute rules as external.
What is an empty-anchor link?+
An `<a>` with no visible text — usually because it wraps an image, an icon, or whitespace. These are accessibility problems (screen readers read them as 'link, blank') and weak SEO signal. The tool flags every one.
Does the tool warn about the same domain appearing many times?+
Yes — high single-domain link concentration is flagged as a potential link-scheme signal. The threshold is 5+ outbound links to the same external domain from a single page.
Why inspect one page when a sitewide crawl already exists?+
Sitewide audits surface volume-level metrics like total broken links or aggregate nofollow ratio, but they cannot judge anchor-text variety or rel-attribute hygiene per page. A single-page deep audit catches the editorial-level issues a crawl flattens out. Both have a place; this one is for pre-publish review.
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