Description
Ideal for SEOs, link builders, and digital marketers who want a reliable, repeatable way to monitor backlink health without manual effort.
🔹 How It Works:
✅ 📄 Google Sheets Input – Reads backlinks and landing pages from your spreadsheet
✅ 🧠 Domain Parsing – Extracts and formats domains for clean API input
✅ 🔗 DataForSEO Integration – Sends each backlink to the On-Page API for validation
✅ ⏱️ Wait Time – Pauses 20 seconds to allow for complete crawling
✅ 📬 Fetch Results – Pulls backlink verification data from DataForSEO
✅ 🔍 Check Link Status – Verifies if the backlink is live, missing, or changed to nofollow
✅ ✍️ Update Sheet – Writes the result back into the “Status” column as:
• Live
• Lost
• Lost (Nofollow)
💼 Use Cases:
📈 Backlink Monitoring – Stay on top of which backlinks are still active and which ones have been lost
🔗 Link Building Audits – Report to clients or teams which placements are still valid
🛠️ SEO Maintenance – Automatically keep your backlink database up to date
🧑💼 Agency Reporting – Provide clients with accurate backlink performance summaries
🧠 Why It’s Smart:
📋 Fully Automated – Replaces hours of manual link checking with one click
🔗 Dofollow vs Nofollow Detection – Gives you clarity on actual SEO impact
🔁 Repeatable System – Works on batches of links at scale
📥 Actionable Output – Status is written directly to your working Google Sheet
⚙️ Easy to Customize – Modify timing, sheet columns, or alerting as needed
🔧 Level of Effort:
🟢 Easy – One-time setup in n8n (~15 minutes)
🧩 You’ll Need:
🔐 DataForSEO API credentials (access to On-Page API)
📄 Google Sheet with 3 columns:
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Backlink URL
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Landing Page
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Status
✅ Google Sheets credentials added to n8n
🛠️ Basic familiarity with n8n workflow editor
💡 Customization Tip:
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Add Slack or email alerts for lost links
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Track “nofollow” trends across different domains
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Auto-archive links marked “Lost” after 7 days
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Schedule the workflow to run daily or weekly with Cron
🚀 Track Backlink Health Without Lifting a Finger.
Keep your SEO strategy sharp by knowing exactly which links still count — and take action fast when they don’t.
Link : https://preview--backlink-watchdog.lovable.app/
