Outreach Desk Tools

The Toolkit

Seven Free Tools, Built for Our Own Campaigns

Seven free tools we built for our own link building work, with no signup, no credit limit, and no data kept. Each one answers a single question you normally need a paid subscription to answer: what a link should cost, whether a page is indexed, whether a placement is still live, how old a domain really is, where a page’s dead links are, how a page splits its outbound links between follow and nofollow, and whether a campaign pays for itself.

Nothing here is a trial or a teaser for a paid plan. Each one exists because we needed the answer in the middle of a live campaign and did not want to open a subscription platform to get it.

What you never hand over

1

No signup

No email, no account, no verification link to click before you see a result.

2

No credit limit

Run the same check twenty times in a row. There is no quota to hit and no upgrade prompt waiting at the end of it.

3

Nothing kept

The URLs you paste are used for that request and are not stored against your name afterwards.

The Tools

Every Tool on This Page

Each one runs in the browser and returns an answer in seconds. Open the one that matches the question you are trying to settle.

Backlink cost calculator tool

Estimate a fair price for a placement from domain authority, traffic, and niche before you agree to pay for it.

Google index checker tool

Google Index Checker

Confirm whether a URL is actually in Google’s index, in bulk, without opening Search Console.

Backlink monitoring tool

Paste the pages that link to you and see which of those backlinks are still live.

Domain age checker tool

Domain Age Checker

Registration date, age, registrar, IP and name servers for up to 10 domains at once.

Broken link checker tool

Scan any page for dead links and 404s, whether it is your site or a prospect’s.

Link building ROI calculator tool

Model what a campaign has to return before you commit budget to it.

Link analyzer tool

Count internal, external, dofollow, nofollow, sponsored and UGC links on any page.

Pick One

Which Tool Answers Which Question

Start from the question you actually have, not from the tool name. Every row links straight to the tool that settles it.

The question The tool What you get back
What should this link cost? Backlink Cost Calculator A price range built from domain authority, traffic and niche
Is this page actually in Google? Google Index Checker An indexed or not-indexed verdict for a whole list of URLs
Is the link I paid for still live? Backlink Monitoring Tool Live or removed status for every referring page you paste
How old is this domain really? Domain Age Checker Registration date, age, registrar, IP and name servers
Where are this page’s dead links? Broken Link Checker Every 404 and dead outbound link found on the page
Will this campaign pay for itself? Link Building ROI Calculator Revenue lift, payback period and an ROI percentage
How is this page linking out? Link Analyzer Counts for internal, external, dofollow, nofollow, sponsored and UGC

Workflow

A link audit is really four questions asked in order. You can answer all of them here without a paid tool.

1

Still There?

Paste your referring pages. Links get removed during redesigns and editor changes far more often than people check.

2

Indexed?

A live link on an unindexed page passes nothing. Run those referring URLs in bulk before you count them.

3

Site Real?

Young domains sharing one IP or the same odd name servers are worth a second look before you buy again.

4

What Is Broken?

Dead links on your pages are housekeeping. Dead links on someone else’s are an opening to pitch.

Know the Limits

What These Tools Do Not Do

Every tool here is deliberately narrow. That is why each one loads instantly, asks nothing of you and answers in a single screen.

Knowing where they stop is the point. Expecting a full subscription platform for free is how people end up disappointed by free tools.

No index history

These tools read the web as it is right now. They cannot tell you what a page or a link profile looked like last quarter.

No authority score

Nothing here grades a domain out of 100. Those metrics come from crawlers we do not run, so judge relevance and traffic yourself.

No site-wide crawling

Each check runs against the URLs you paste. For a full crawl of thousands of pages you still want a desktop crawler.

No saved projects

Because nothing is stored, nothing is waiting for you next time. Copy or export anything you want to keep before you close the tab.

Free vs Paid

When a Free Tool Is Enough

Most link building decisions need one number, not a dashboard. The split below is how we decide which to open.

Pay for a platform when the job is scale

Historical backlink graphs, competitor tracking, rank monitoring across hundreds of keywords and alerts that keep running while you sleep. That is an ongoing data problem, and ongoing data costs money.

If you manage link building for dozens of domains, a subscription earns its keep.

Use a free tool when the job is one decision

Whether to pay for one placement. Whether one page is indexed. Whether one link is still on the page you bought it on. Those are one-off questions with one-off answers.

Nobody should pay a monthly fee to check a handful of URLs, which is exactly why these pages exist.

Behind Them

These are not lead magnets bolted on to a software product. They are the checks our own team runs on client campaigns.

Why they exist

Every tool on this page started as a spreadsheet or a short script someone on the team used during outreach. When the same check came up often enough, we turned it into a page anyone could open.

That is also why they are narrow. They answer the questions we actually ask, in the order we ask them.

Where a tool stops

A checker tells you the state of a link. It cannot pitch an editor, judge whether a site is worth appearing on, negotiate a placement or keep the relationship alive afterwards. That part is still manual work.

If you would rather not do it yourself, see how we work or talk to our team.


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