Free Link Building Tools
Free link building and AI search tools to check Domain Rating, vet sites before you buy or pitch, and keep your link profile healthy. No sign-up needed.
Free tools for the jobs that come up every week in link building: sizing up a site before you pitch it or pay for a placement, checking your own progress, and keeping your profile clean. No sign-up, no email gate.
| Tool | What it does | Pairs with |
|---|---|---|
| DR checker | Domain Rating for one site or up to 25 at once | DR vs DA, buying backlinks |
| Disavow file generator | Turns a list of bad links into a valid disavow.txt | Backlink audit |
| robots.txt generator | Allow or block GPTBot, ClaudeBot and other AI crawlers, or check any site's rules | LLM SEO, AI Overviews |
| llms.txt generator | Builds and validates an llms.txt file, with an honest note on who reads it | GEO |
| AI visibility checker | Whether AI answers mention your brand, and which sites they rely on | LLM SEO, brand mentions |
More tools are on the way. Each one comes with a short guide on how to use the result, because a number on its own doesn't tell you what to do next.
All free tools
Free DR Checker: Check Any Website's Domain Rating
Check the Ahrefs Domain Rating of any website for free, or paste up to 25 domains at once. Plus how to read the score and use it to vet link sites.
Read this guideDisavow file generator
Paste bad URLs or domains and get a clean disavow.txt in Google's exact format, deduplicated and validated. Free, and nothing leaves your browser.
Read this guideAI visibility checker
See whether AI search mentions your brand when buyers ask about what you sell, where you rank in the answer, and which sites the AI used as sources.
Read this guiderobots.txt generator
Build a robots.txt that allows or blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and other AI crawlers, or check which AI bots a site already blocks. Free.
Read this guidellms.txt generator
Create an llms.txt file in the correct format, or check an existing one for errors. Plus an honest look at which AI tools actually read it.
Read this guide