Quick Start

Create a free account

Go to the Register page. Sign up with Google or with email and password.

The free plan needs no credit card. You get 1 audit per month, 5 monitored links, and weekly check frequency. Enough to evaluate every workflow on a real domain.

Add your first workspace

Right after signup, TraceLinker asks for the domain you want to protect. Enter a name and the destination domain your backlinks should point to. This keeps every audit and monitoring result attached to the correct project.

After saving, you go directly to the first audit rather than an empty dashboard.

Run your first audit

The audit page offers three input choices, depending on your plan:

• Manual entry — add one or more source URLs directly.
• CSV upload — paste or upload a list of source URLs and optional anchor text.
• Auto-discover — paid plans can fetch candidate links from a third-party backlink index using credits.

Google Search Console does not expose backlinks through its public API. Connecting GSC is optional and enables verified-property listing and URL Inspection after an audit; it does not import backlinks automatically. See GSC Integration.

For a quick test, paste a small CSV with the format below. Set the target domain to your own site (the destination the source links should point at).

source_url,anchor_text
https://example.com/blog/post-1,best widget tool
https://news.example.org/2024/widgets,Widget Inc

Then click Run audit.

Watch the audit run live

You are redirected to the audit detail page immediately. The progress bar climbs as our crawler fetches each source URL and our AI model generates a 1-100 score with reasoning.

Completion time depends on the source sites and queue load. You can navigate away and come back—the audit runs server-side and an email arrives when it finishes.

📸 Audit detail page with progress bar and rows streaming in

Read the results

When the run finishes, each row shows:

📸 Audit detail page showing scored rows with reasoning column

Use the row actions to monitor a valuable link or create an outreach draft when appropriate.

Move valuable links to monitoring

In the audit detail page, use Monitor on the valuable rows you want to protect. This adds them to the Monitoring section where they are re-checked on your selected plan frequency (weekly on Free; daily or weekly on Pro; hourly, daily, or weekly on Agency).

📸 Selecting rows and clicking Move to monitoring

You will get an email any time one of those links transitions:

• alive → changed - anchor edited, link still works.
• alive → dead - link removed or page 404. Paid plans automatically create a reclaim draft.
• dead → alive - link came back (rare but worth knowing).

Check your Backlink Score

Click Score in the sidebar. You will see a single composite number 0-100 with a letter grade (A through F). The breakdown shows:

• Quality (50%) - average AI score of monitored + valuable discovered backlinks.
• Diversity (25%) - unique source domains + TLD spread.
• Toxicity (25%) - subtracted: percentage of toxic links in the profile.

You also get an embed snippet for an SVG badge. Paste the snippet anywhere on your site to display the score publicly.