Free tool
Backlink Risk Monitor
Find suspicious, toxic, new and lost backlinks.
Read this before you disavow anything
Most websites do not need to use Google’s Disavow Links tool. Incorrectly disavowing legitimate links may harm search performance. Automated risk signals are not proof that Google considers a link spam. Review every link carefully and use disavowal only when you have a considerable number of artificial, manipulative or low-quality links and a manual action — or a strong documented reason to expect one.
Sign in to monitor a backlink profile
Backlink data is stored against a project and kept private to the account that owns it, so this tool needs an account. Creating one is free.
What this tool does once you are signed in
- Reads your backlinks from a connected data provider, or from an export you upload from Search Console, Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz or Majestic.
- Records what is new and what has gone, so a sudden change is visible rather than buried.
- Ranks referring domains by how much they warrant a look, and shows every rule that contributed, its weight, the evidence, and what could not be checked.
- Emails you when something changes materially, at a frequency you set.
- Builds a Google-compatible disavow file from entries you have approved one at a time — and never from a score.
A backlink data provider is configured, so this project can sync automatically. You can also import an export from Search Console or another tool.
What This Tool Does
The monitor keeps a record of your backlink profile over time, tells you what is new and what has gone, ranks referring domains by how much they warrant a look, and helps you build a Google-compatible disavow file from entries you have approved one at a time.
Most sites never need the last part. Google says so itself, and this tool repeats it on every screen. The monitoring is useful to everyone; the disavow builder exists for the minority of sites facing a manual action or a documented pattern of links they did not ask for and cannot get removed.
How to Use It
Choose a project, then either sync from a connected data provider or upload an export from Search Console, Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz or Majestic. Both routes end up in the same table, and both record a snapshot so the next run can tell you what changed.
- Import your Search Console links export first if you have one. It is the only list that reflects what Google itself has recorded.
- Leave “treat this file as the whole profile” switched off for a partial export. A single page of results would otherwise mark every other link as lost.
- Work through the review queue by referring domain rather than by link. A decision recorded against a domain covers every URL on it, now and later.
- Open the referring page and read it before deciding anything. No score can tell you whether a link was placed to manipulate rankings.
- Try asking for removal before disavowing, and record the attempt. If you ever answer a manual action, that record is what you show.
How the Tool Calculates or Retrieves Data
Backlinks come from a configured data provider or from a file you upload. Nothing is discovered by crawling: no WordPress site can see who links to you, and a tool that claimed otherwise would be inventing the answer.
Review priority is produced by a versioned rules engine. Each rule has a weight, an evidence string and a named data source, and every score shows which rules fired, what they saw, what could not be checked, and how confident the result is. When the rules change, the version changes with them and you can rescore what is stored.
The engine will not treat a foreign country, a foreign language, a low authority metric, a new domain, an unusual top-level domain, a nofollow link, a directory listing, a low-traffic page, an image link or a missing metric as a problem on its own. Those factors describe most of the legitimate web.
Understanding Your Results
A high review priority means “read this yourself”, not “Google penalised you”. The wording throughout is deliberate: potential risk, review recommended, suspicious pattern, unverified. Nothing here is a verdict.
Only entries you have explicitly approved reach the disavow file. A score never adds anything, in bulk or otherwise, and the confirmations before download exist to make sure you know what uploading a file to Google does.
Uploading a disavow file to Google replaces the previous one rather than adding to it. Import the file you already submitted before generating a new one, or anything in it silently stops being disavowed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Probably not. Google’s own guidance is that most sites do not need the tool, and that disavowing legitimate links can harm search performance. It is meant for cases with a considerable number of artificial or manipulative links, usually alongside a manual action, where removal requests have failed.
No, and no tool honestly can. Google provides no submission endpoint. Searqo generates and validates the file, opens Google’s official tool in a new tab, and records that you uploaded it. It never signs in to Google on your behalf and never stores Google credentials or cookies.
No. It means several rules fired and the entry is worth your time. “Toxic backlink” is not a Google concept, and no third party can see whether Google is discounting a particular link. Read the evidence, then read the page.
Because the Search Console API does not return the links report. The export in the interface is the only complete version Google offers, so that is what the importer reads.
Google may disregard links from every current and future URL on that domain. It is the blunter instrument of the two, which is why choosing it requires a written reason and appears separately in the review before download.
Before you upload, yes: change the decision and regenerate. After uploading, you remove the entry and upload the corrected file, and Google takes time to reconsider the links. Searqo keeps every version it generated so you can see what was in each one and roll back.
No. Backlinks, decisions, disavow versions and outreach records are stored against your project and your account, and every request checks that the project belongs to you before returning a row.