Aggregate all link data sources possible

Get a complete picture of your backlink profile.

With LRT you get 25+ different link data sources

• combined
• re-crawled
• verified
• combined with 150+ SEO metrics

We give you a 360-degree view of your backlink profile. You will see the maximum possible number of links.

This alone saves you many hours of exhausting manual data cleanup work, every time you update your audit.

You life as an SEO analyst will get an unseen-before (data) quality.

Link Detox Risk

A DTOXRISK above 1000 usually means a penalty or Google Penguin filter holding you back in rankings.

Link Detox Risk is a unique risk metric calculating the risk of any link and your whole domain (Domain DTOXRISK). Judging on the link risk of any single link helps you decide which ones to disavow, delete or to keep.

Backlink Risk Distribution

In the Link Detox Risk^® distribution for a backlink profile you immediately get an understanding of where you stand. After the Link Detox Risk gauge this is the second most important overview for you backlink profile.

Link Detox Risk Trends

The Link Detox Risk^® trends for a backlink profile show you the development of risk over time. You can act as soon as something changes. The charts also allows you to zoom into details and a specific time frame.

Link Growth by DTOXRISK

In the growth chart you can follow the accumulation of backlinks and their risk distribution. If you spot a trend of high risk link to grow here, you can take action quickly.

Won & Lost links

Spot anomalies where you earn a lot of links "over night" and investigate the reason. The same attention is required when you lose a lot of links quickly. We do an ongoing refresh of your link index for you.

See high risk keywords

See at a glance which keywords and links have a high risk vs. medium risk.

Of course we picked an example that would look especially scary, wouldn't we?

Our founders site has been around since 2001, so a lot of links piled up over the years.

Link Detox Boost

Link Detox Boost helps you recover faster from penalties.

Google Penalty Recovery can take up to 9 months.

Recover from a Google Penalty faster with Link Detox Boost.

As fast as in 3 days.

Waiting for Google to take notice of your disavow file can be a pain. It is not fond of crawl spam links after all.

So that discounting can be delayed. But this is hurting your rankings even longer.

That's because all the links, even poor ones, needs to be crawled for the disavow to work.

Link Detox Boost® speeds up your recovery from a Google Penguin penalty or a Manual Action.

There is no other tool that can make Google take notice of changes in your backlink profile. When you’re trying to recover from a Google penalty, Link Detox Boost helps you without a doubt. Learn more about Link Detox Boost.

Google Search Console Integration

The more data and links we see, the more precise your reports will be.

You can connect Google Search Console with LinkResearchTools. LRT even supports multiple Google Search Console properties for the same website a little known trick to get more links out of Google Search Console.

Google Analytics Integration

You can also connect Google Analytics, and we’ll enrich your backlink profile with links we found via your referrers from there as well.

Custom Link Data

You can upload any link lists you have to Link Detox to enrich our back link data. While this will help the goal have a full backlink profile audit, it’s not required.

You can upload manually created link data files, or files you exported from 3rd parties like Ahrefs, SEMrush, Moz or Sistrix.

Custom Link APIs

You can also import link data via 3rd party APIs from products like like Ahrefs, SEMrush, Moz or Sistrix.

If you have an internalk custom link database, we'll try to make that happen as well.

Complete Backlink Profile Audit

Link Detox gives you a complete backlink profile to review you can get on the market. It’s imperative that you analyze your complete backlink profile of course. Imagine you’d just look one part of your car in the annual service and miss critical issues that could cost you your life. It’s the same with backlink audits.

Thanks to the 25+ link data sources and the option to connect Google Search Console, Google Analytics, connect your custom link data APIs and even upload your own link data, we got you covered.

LRT measures the backlink profile coverage for every domain, so helps you keep track of the quality of every analysis.

Unique SEO metrics for each link

In your Link Detox link analysis, you get up 150+ strong metrics for every link.

Based on that you can quickly assess every recommendation the system made.

Of course you don't have to use them all, we know it's a lot.

Most user are happy with the unique LRT metrics like Link Detox Risk, LRT Power*Trust or Link Velocity Trends. These were built for accurate link analysis, after all.

Get up to the-minute accurate backlink data

Combining 25+ link data sources and your manual files would create a mess in any other tool.

LinkResearchTools combines, cleans and recrawls all links before it presents results to you.

LRT then provides you with fresh, re-crawled backlink data whenever you start a new analysis. This allows you to see the backlinks that your website has at the present moment.

Don’t look at outdated backlink information; Link Detox is the only SEO tool that allows you to base your decisions on up-to-the-minute accurate data.

After all, what’s the point of using a link analysis software if you look at old or even incomplete data?

To get the perfect basis for our SEO work was, in fact, the idea of why we built LinkResearchTools in 2006.

This particular re-crawl feature can sure help you recover faster from a Manual Action. After you submit a Reconsideration request, you must keep a close eye on your backlink profile, so that you don’t get any new bad links while Google is deciding on whether to lift your penalty or not.

Browse links in a mini link browser

We built a browser for your browser.

Lean back and go through the links you need to audit without leaving the comfort of your keyboard.

Link Screener offers a preview of every audited page in a sandboxed environment and you can navigate between pages and pull the trigger in disavow like in a video game.

You can review your links in the Link Detox Screener in a handy way.

Using hotkeys on your keyboard, you can quickly navigate thru the backlink profile and decide efficiently which links to disavow and which to keep. Read more.

Keyword Intelligence

Link Detox has keyword intelligence built in. This is required to understand if a link anchor text is of commercial nature of a brand mention. Using this feature you help the system understand your niche language. In return you get the risk assessed based on frequency, words and many more factors in Link Detox more precise.

Many other link products to not even distinguish between the types of keywords. LinkResearchTools supported this major SEO requirement since 2010 with the Keyword classification feature.

Unique machine-learning link risk algorithm

Link Detox can estimate the risk for each backlink, measured as DTOXRISK^®.

These link risk calculations are based on Link Detox Genesis – a unique data-driven and machine-learning algorithm that mimics how we believe Google looks for risky links.

Link Detox Genesis is an organic data-driven algorithm that assigns a DTOXRISK to every link depending on multiple patterns, spam signals and risks spotted. Link Detox Genesis calculations include complex technical data and feedback from users, learning from millions of data points.

Link Detox helps you assess all your backlinks, recover from Google manual penalties, protect your website from future penalties, and build new strong links.

Include NoFollow Links, or not.

It is totally up to you, if you include NoFollow links in the risk calculations.

Based on our research NoFollow links can also trigger spam penalties in Google.

We support analysis with or without NoFollow links. You can even start with auditing only Follow links first, and then finalize your audit by re-running it for all calculating risk for NoFollow links. Better be safe than sorry.

Full transparency - for every link

Link Detox gives you maximum data transparency why recommendations where made.

We started collectin since the first Penguin updates, which nobody did. Without this data and training history one cannot reach the same quality. Add experience from 10.000s of penalties to that and you have LRT.

We don't keep you in the dark about why a link is deemed risky, we list all rules triggered for each link.

Link Detox Tune

You can adjust Link Detox to your niche and needs. Link Detox tune is a unique technology that allows you to change the weights of all Link Detox rules for your link audits.

This is useful for very exotic niches or when you you wish to accept the particular risk, e.g. when building a PBN.

Just tweak the Link Detox algo like you do with an equalizer on your amp.

Bullet Proof your Link Network & PBNs

Some black hat SEOs use Link Detox for finding patterns in their link networks and PBNs.

Link Detox is the leader in finding footprints and unnatural links, so this off-label-use make perfect sense. Don’t try this at home.

Import existing Google Disavow File

Link Detox can import your existing disavow file.

The Google Disavow file import was supported already 7 hours after the official announcement of that feature by Matt Cutts at Pubcon Las Vegas 2012. We've been on the cutting edge of innovation ever since. And we’ve gone to great lengths and beyond to make disavow file maintenance frictionless and efficient for our users.

Export your Disavow File anytime

You can download the disavow file in the exact format required by Google, whenever you need it.

Link Detox allows you to generate a disavow file automatically in the exact format required by Google so all you have to do is upload it to your Google Search Console account.

Link Detox also keeps track of your disavow history. This allows you to watch and track all changes to your disavow file on a file and domain level.

Get comprehensive Disavow History

Link Detox also keeps a history of all changes for as long as you use the software. This helps you keep track of changes you or your team made over time.

Disavow File History works like a version control for links and disavow files. Think of this as a revision history of your disavow file. You can even retrieve the past disavow file with this feature.

Disavow File Comments

While Google won’t read your comments in the disavow file, you can use comment the disavow file. Link Detox has full support for comments in disavow files.

Perform a Disavow Audit

Let’s face it – clients change, SEOs change.

Did you have a reckless SEO or an Agency doing the website audit work for you? You can now check if they disavowed any good links.

You are the one who takes over a domain with an existing disavow file.

The first thing you want to do is perform a disavow file audit. There you might find many useful links that you could undisavow and recover traffic that you lost due to human error in the past or because the web changes daily.

Fancy filters

With the fancy filters in LRT you can quickly drill down into the data. Save them and reuse them all over your account.

And it gets even better.

You can embed those saved filters into other filters.

Like sub modules that you reuse in your link analysis work!

You can filter by all of the 150+ metrics. Not just a few!

Bulk Operations

Select a dozen or thousands and apply actions like Disavow or Tag to those links.

Along with our fancy filters the bulk operations help you tackle huge backlink profiles.

Simulate link quality before building

With the Link Simulator you can simulate links as if you had them already. LRT will calculate the potential risk for those links for you.

Based on the Link Detox Risk score for each link you can decide to acquire it or not.