Link Signals crawls your sitemap, follows every outbound link, and judges each destination against the page that links to it. A gardening blog pointing at an online pharmacy is never a coincidence.
| Verdict | Destination | Signals |
|---|---|---|
| Not safe | bonus-spins-24.example/promo Out of context: “Seasonal planting guide” links to gambling | gamblingOut of context |
| Needs review | cheap-meds-direct.example/viagra “About us” links to pharma content (hidden link) | pharmaHidden |
| Needs review | quickcash-today.example/apply Unrelated promotional link from a contact page | loansOut of context |
| Broken | old-partner-site.example/resources Broken link (HTTP 404) | 404 |
| No known issues | rhs.org.uk/plants/tomatoes RHS guide to growing tomatoes |
Keyword scanners flag a Wikipedia article about casinos and miss the pharmacy link hidden off-screen. Link Signals reads the link in context, and tells you how it knows.
Follows sitemap indexes and gzipped files, up to your plan’s page cap.
/sitemap_index.xml → 84 pagesEvery external link, its anchor text, and whether CSS hides it from visitors.
left:-9999px · “cheap viagra”Fetched like a browser and retried when bots are blocked. Status, title and description recorded.
200 · “Best Slots Bonus 2026”60,000+ adult and 2,600+ gambling domains from public blocklists. A hit is a confirmed verdict.
blocklist:gambling ✓A model reads the source page, the anchor and the destination and asks whether the link belongs.
related: false · suspicious: truePharma, casino and payday-loan links pushed into old posts after a plugin or password leak, often hidden so you never see them. Flagged as out of context, hidden, or both.
A partnership that quietly became a gambling affiliate. The anchor text, the page topic and the destination no longer agree.
Links to partners whose domain expired and was bought by someone else. Broken links and 5xx errors are listed alongside, so one pass cleans up both.
Every scan is saved. Export the flagged findings to CSV for advertisers, legal or the person who has to fix it.
Pick the plan that covers your pages. Prices are monthly, in GBP, and you can cancel from your billing page.
| Free £0 Try it on a small site. | Starter £9 /month A site you look after. | Pro £29 /month Several sites, or one big one. | Scale £149 /month Agencies and large publishers. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sitemap size | 100 pages | 1,000 pages | 10,000 pages | 50,000 pages |
| Links per scan | 10 | 2,000 | 12,000 | 50,000 |
| Link checks per month | 30 | 2,000 | 12,000 | 50,000 |
| Saved reports and CSV export | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Intent and hidden-link analysis | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Start free | Get started | Get started | Get started |
No. It reads your public sitemap and public pages, the way a search engine does. Nothing is installed.
A blocklist hit is confirmed. Anything judged only by keywords or a model is marked “Needs review” for a human to look at. Treat the report as triage.
No, only what a visitor or crawler can see. Links that only appear after JavaScript runs may be missed.
It fetches a handful of pages at a time and identifies itself in the user agent, so you can allow or block it.