LinkYour bought links rot a little every week.
Sample budget, rotting right now
$0
0% of $5,000 bought · drag the bar
LinkRot.io puts a price on the damage and names the links to fix. It watches every backlink you paid for and tells you how much of your link budget is rotting right now.
No signup. No credit card. Just results.
- No account, no email
- Fetched live, right now
- Any currency
How it works
Add links. We check. You get alerts.
- Add your backlinksPaste a list, upload a CSV or add them one by one. AI reads the list for you. What you paid is optional.
- We check themDaily backlink checks. Monthly Google visibility checks. A weekly look at whether AI crawlers may read the page.
- You get alertsAn email when something breaks, with the next step, and a weekly digest.
One number
How much of your link budget is rotting, in your currency
Every link carries what you paid for it. Dead and at-risk links add up to one figure you can act on, with the links behind it.
Rotting right now
$990
24% of $4,200 bought · 6 of 37 links
!Cracked
- Healthy
- $3,21031 links
- At risk
- $6104 links
- Dead
- $3802 links
- moneyblog.io/best-tools-2026Page returns 404 since Nov 2$180Dead
- dailynews.co/sponsored/fintechLink removed, page still live$200Dead
- gearlist.org/our-favouritesrel="nofollow" added on Oct 31$120At risk
- reviewhub.net/top-picksPage set to noindex on Oct 29$90At risk
- techweekly.com/guides/saas-stackDofollow, indexed, anchor unchanged$240Healthy
AI search
The pages you paid for feed AI answers too
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini answer from pages they are allowed to read. A bought link has to survive there as well as in Google.
Gone for AI as well
When the page is deleted or your link is cut from it, it stops pointing to you for people, for Google and for AI assistants alike. The daily check catches it.
Can AI crawlers read it?
We read the site’s robots.txt and tell you when it blocks the crawlers of ChatGPT search, Claude, Perplexity or Gemini on the page you paid for.
AI reads your list
Paste your list as it is or upload any CSV export. AI finds the pages, landing addresses, prices, currencies and dates. You review it before anything is saved.
What we monitor
Three questions, answered every day
Is your link still there?
Know when a backlink disappears or the page goes down.
Is it still working as expected?
Spot nofollow, noindex, redirects and other changes.
We’ll keep you posted.
Get alerts when something breaks and a simple weekly summary.
See everything we check
- Page alive
- HTTP status and redirects. A 404, a 410 or a redirect to the homepage means the page you paid for is gone.
- Link present
- Your URL is still in the HTML, with the anchor text you agreed on.
- Still followed
- No nofollow, sponsored or ugc attribute added after you paid for a followed link.
- Indexable
- No noindex meta tag or header, and the canonical still points at the page itself.
- Open to AI crawlers
- Once a week we read the site’s robots.txt: does it block the crawlers of ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Gemini on your page?
- Found in Google
- Once a month we search Google for the exact page. Not found is a warning, not proof: Google does not list every page it has indexed.
- Term expiry
- You enter the date you paid until. We remind you two weeks before, so you can renew or renegotiate.
- Priced
- Every link carries what you paid, in your currency. Dead and at-risk links add up to one number you can act on.
Alerts & weekly digest
Know what broke. Know what it's costing you.
An alert when a link you paid for breaks, and the next step to get it back.
- Know when a link diesGet notified when monitoring detects a broken backlink.
- See the value at riskUnderstand how much of your backlink investment needs attention.
- Fix what matters firstA weekly digest prioritizes the links worth recovering.
LinkRot.io
Rotting right now
$990
24% of $4,200 bought · 6 of 37 links
!Cracked- Paid
- $200
- Recommended action
- Ask the vendor to restore your link
Changed in the last 7 days
Pricing
Less than one dead link costs you
Prices in USD. You track your links in any currency. 14-day refund on every plan, no questions asked.
Founding Lifetime
$149 one-time
For the first 50 members only, then the offer is gone. Pay once, no renewal.
- 300 monitored links, for life
- Daily backlink checks
- Monthly Google visibility checks
- Instant alerts and weekly digest
- The next step for every broken link
Starter
$79 a year
$9 a month
Watches $45,000 of links at $150 each.
- 300 monitored links
- Daily backlink checks
- Monthly Google visibility checks
- Instant alerts and weekly digest
- The next step for every broken link
Pro
$199 a year
$22 a month
Watches $300,000 of links at $150 each.
- 2,000 monitored links
- Daily backlink checks
- Monthly Google visibility checks
- Instant alerts and weekly digest
- The next step for every broken link
By paying you accept the terms and the privacy policy.
What $9 a month protects
I paid for at about .
That is $45,000 of bought links. If just 10% of them rot this year, $4,500 is gone. Starter watches all of them for $79 a year, 0.18% of what you paid. One link caught in time pays for two years.
An example, not a promise: monitoring tells you in time, the seller fixes or replaces the link. Backlink monitors' own data put the first-year loss at 14 to 17% of links (Linkody, 2022 and 2026).
Is this a backlink checker like Ahrefs?
No. Ahrefs finds links you did not know about. LinkRot.io watches the links you already have and paid for, and tells you when one stops working.
What exactly counts as rotting?
The page is gone, your link was removed, it got a nofollow, sponsored or ugc attribute, the page was set to noindex or its canonical points elsewhere, Google stopped showing it, the anchor text changed, or the term you paid for expired.
How often do you check?
Daily on paid plans. The weekly report sums it up. An alert goes out the moment a link dies, after two consecutive failed checks, so a flaky server does not wake you up.
Do you check whether Google has the page?
Once a month we search Google for the exact page and tell you whether it shows up. Not found is a warning, not proof: Google does not list every page it has indexed, so we never call it deindexed.
Does LinkRot.io help with AI search (GEO)?
In one way: it tells you whether the page you paid for is still there, still links to you, and whether the site’s robots.txt blocks the crawlers of ChatGPT search, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. It reads robots.txt only, so a site that blocks crawlers at its firewall will not show. It does not track whether AI answers mention your brand.
Which currencies can I use?
Any. Each link keeps the currency you paid in. Totals are shown in the currency you choose, converted at the ECB daily rate.
Who is behind LinkRot.io?
Netbase Media Ltd. in Hungary, the makers of the SEO Metrics Snapshot Chrome extension (about 485 users). The founder buys links for 30+ markets in his day job and built the tool he was missing.
What happens with my data and the pages you fetch?
We fetch public pages only, store the check results for your account, and never resell or publish your link list. Free checks are rate-limited per visitor and the URLs are not kept. Details in the privacy policy.
What does "lifetime" mean?
You pay once and keep your 300 monitored links for as long as LinkRot.io operates, with no renewal. If we ever shut the service down within 12 months of your purchase, you get the unused part back. The details are in the terms.
Refunds?
14 days, no questions asked, on every plan including the founding offer.
See what is rotting in your link budget
Check five of your bought links for free, or put all of them under watch today. 14-day refund on every plan.