A backlink checker shows every external site linking to yours, so you can see which links are helping your rankings and which might be actively hurting them. Illumae's checker lists each backlink with its source domain, anchor text, target page, domain authority, and a spam-risk score, groups anything high or medium risk, and — the part most free tools skip — generates a ready-to-upload disavow file for Google Search Console in one click.
Most seo analyzer free tools will show you a backlink list and stop there, leaving you to manually copy risky domains into a text file in the exact format Google's disavow tool demands. Here, the risky domains are already grouped by risk band — the file is generated for you, correctly formatted, ready to download.
Source domain, anchor text, and target page
Exactly where each link comes from, what text it uses, and which of your pages it points to — searchable and filterable by dofollow or nofollow.
Domain authority and spam-risk, side by side
A 0-100 authority bar alongside a separate low/medium/high risk band, so a low-authority link and a genuinely risky one are never conflated into a single misleading score.
Aggregate profile metrics
Total backlinks, total referring domains, and the average backlinks per domain, updated on a weekly sync — so you can see the shape of your whole link profile, not just individual rows.
High and medium-risk domains are grouped automatically. One toggle lets you include medium-risk domains in the file alongside high-risk ones, or keep the file to just the clearest cases.
One click builds the file, correctly formatted. Google's disavow tool expects one domain per line in a specific format — the file downloads (or, on iOS Safari where triggered downloads aren't reliable, copies to your clipboard and opens the upload page) ready to use.
You upload it yourself, deliberately. Google's disavow tool has no API — no tool, Illumae included, can submit a disavow file on your behalf. You review the domain list, then upload it at Search Console yourself, which also means you get a final look before anything is disavowed.
This is a monitoring and clean-up tool for your own backlink profile, not a competitor backlink research or link-building prospecting tool — it won't show you a rival's link sources or suggest sites to pitch for a link. Disavowing a domain is also not reversible in the way editing a spreadsheet is: Google treats it as an instruction, so the honest advice built into the tool itself is to review before including a domain, not to disavow everything flagged without a second look.
Illumae bands each backlink into low, medium, or high risk based on the source domain's spam score. A high domain-authority score doesn't automatically mean a link is safe, and a low one doesn't automatically mean it's spam — the risk band and the authority score are shown separately so you can weigh both rather than relying on one number.
No — nobody can force another site to remove a link to you, and Google's disavow tool has no API for any tool to submit through automatically. What Illumae does is generate the disavow file in the exact format Google expects, pre-filled with your high (and optionally medium) risk domains, so you just download it and upload it yourself at Search Console's disavow tool.
Backlink and referring-domain counts, along with the individual backlink details in the table, update on a weekly sync schedule rather than in real time.
No. A link from a low-authority site isn't inherently harmful — plenty of small, legitimate sites have modest authority scores. Risk is judged by spam signals specific to that domain, not by authority alone, which is exactly why the two are shown as separate columns rather than blended into one score.
Not in the sense of a web-scale backlink index for competitor research or link-building prospecting — that's a genuinely different, much larger dataset. This backlink checker is built to monitor your own site's existing backlink profile, flag the risky links in it, and get you to a disavow file fast, which covers what most site owners actually need without the added cost and complexity of a full research platform.
No credit card required. See your real backlink profile and risk breakdown for your own site.