Backlink monitoring that re-checks every 30 days
A link that was live when you checked it is not the same thing as a link that is live now. Pages get rebuilt, editors tidy up, a CMS migration drops a paragraph, and a placement you paid attention to a year ago quietly stops existing. Nobody writes to tell you.
Pressmerit verifies every placement the day it goes live, then keeps checking it. Weekly through the first month, then every 30 days for as long as your subscription is active. Verification and monitoring cost zero credits, inside the plan and outside it.
What a check tests
Four checks, in this order
Each one fails on its own terms, and the result card says which. A link that passes three of four has not passed.
- Present in the server-rendered HTML
- The crawler fetches the URL and looks for the link in what the server sent. A link injected by JavaScript after load is not present as far as a search crawler is concerned, so it is not present here either.
- Resolving to the target that was agreed
- The href has to point where the accepted agreement said it would. A redirect chain, a tracking wrapper, or a target quietly swapped for a different page on your site all fail this one.
- Honoring the agreed rel policy
- Whether a link is dofollow, sponsored or nofollow is a term the two sides settled, recorded in the version both accepted. A page-level nofollow fails this check even when the link tag itself looks correct, because that directive covers everything on the page.
- Sitting on an indexable page
- A page that is not indexable passes nothing on, however good the link on it looks. Noindex on the page, a canonical pointing elsewhere, a robots.txt block: any of them and the placement is worth nothing to you.
Anchor text is the one exception, and it is deliberate. A changed anchor raises a warning rather than a failure. Editors adjust anchors to fit their house style, which is a legitimate edit and not a broken deal. You are shown exactly what was published and you decide whether it still works for you. Nothing is held against the publisher for it.
The cadence
Weekly for a month, then every 30 days
- On publication
- The first full check, run as soon as the placement is reported live.
- Weeks 1 to 4
- A check every week, which is when most quiet removals and rebuilds happen.
- Every 30 days after
- The same four checks, for as long as the subscription is active.
Not every failed fetch is a lost link. Timeouts, rate limits and a server that is down for ten minutes are transient, so a check that fails on the network is retried before anything is called a failure. We would rather tell you a day late than tell you a link is gone when it is still there.
When it goes missing
A clean check says nothing
A clean check is silent. You are not notified about a link that is still where it should be, because a notification that arrives every 30 days to say nothing happened is a notification you stop reading.
When a link does go missing, both sides hear about it: you, and the site that published it. From that notice you can send a restoration request in one click. It arrives as a short note pointing at the agreement the two of you accepted, which is usually enough, because most disappearances are accidents rather than decisions.
What it costs
Backlink management software, at zero credits
Monitoring is not a tier and not a metered action. Every check on every placement is included in the $49 plan, and it keeps running on links you built months ago. There is no credit cost for verification, re-checks, notifications, or a restoration request.
That is deliberate. Charging per check would give us a reason to check more often than is useful, and charging for restoration would mean profiting from a link that failed.
Monitoring runs on placements that exist as agreements inside Pressmerit, so what it checks a page against is the version both sides accepted rather than a note somebody kept in a spreadsheet.
Monitoring questions, answered plainly
How long do you monitor a link?
For as long as your subscription is active. Every placement is checked weekly through its first month, then re-checked every 30 days, including links built long before the current billing cycle. Monitoring stops when the subscription does.
What happens if a link disappears?
You and the publishing site are both notified, and you can send a restoration request in one click. The request quotes the agreement version both sides accepted. Most removals turn out to be a rebuild or a tidy-up rather than a decision, so a short note is usually enough.
Does monitoring cost credits?
No. Verification, weekly checks, 30-day re-checks, notifications and restoration requests are all included in the $49 plan at zero credits. Credits pay for discovery, contacts and outreach, which are the actions that consume real work on our side.
Can you monitor links you did not help me build?
Not at launch. Monitoring runs on placements that exist as agreements inside Pressmerit, because the checks compare a published page against terms both sides accepted. Without that record there is nothing to check the page against.
What counts as a failed check?
A link missing from the server-rendered HTML, pointing somewhere other than the agreed target, breaking the agreed rel policy, or sitting on a page that is no longer indexable. A changed anchor is a warning rather than a failure, and a network timeout is retried before anything is called a failure at all.
Know the day a link disappears
Every placement verified on publication, then re-checked every 30 days for as long as you stay.