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How to Verify 1st and 2nd Tier Links with Backlink Diver

The 1st tier backlinks are the backlinks pointing directly to your website.

The 2nd tier backlinks are the backlinks pointing to the pages where your 1st tier backlinks are.

The purpose of the 2nd tier links is to pass link juice to your website through the 1st tier backlinks. The 2nd tier links strengthen your 1st tier links and play an important role in getting your 1st tier links indexed.

Whether you own a tool that builds links, or outsource link building process, you should have a report about your backlinks. Using Backlink Diver you can verify the pages you submitted your links to and see how many live backlinks of the 1st and 2nd tier you have.

How to Verify 1st Tier Links

To start, you must create a project. This is where you indicate your domains (or keywords) to search for your links. Then you will add the lists of URLs that you will check for your backlinks to the project.

Click on "New Project" on the toolbar.

Type the project name, for example, "My 1st tier backlinks".

Check "Domains".

Type the domain(s) used in your backlinks in this format:

domain1.com
domain2.com
domain3.com

Click "Save".

create project in Backlink Diver

The project with a new list under it will be created.

Now add the URLs of the pages where your 1st tier links should be to the list.

Copy the URLs from your report file.

Put the cursor on "New List" in Backlink Diver.

Click the right mouse button at the right side and select "Paste".

paste links into Backlink Diver

If you have the URLs in a CSV or TXT file, you use the "Load List" option on the toolbar.

Click "Verify" [or select All from the Verify button menu].

verify backlinks in Backlink Diver

While checking the pages for backlinks Backlink Diver does not determine the PageRank nor does it check the pages for Google index. After the checking is complete, use the "Detect PageRank" and "Check Indexed" options under the Home menu to determine the PageRank and Google index.

check PageRank in Backlink Diver

After the verification is complete, the program displays the backlink status:

OK – DoFollow link – link is found on the page and has the DoFollow tag
 
OK – NoFollow link – link is found on the page and has the NoFollow tag
 
Fail – Links not found – link is not found on the page
 
Fail [500], Fail [404] – page did not open

If you click on "Toggle View " on the toolbar, Backlink Diver will show you the URL and anchor text of your link on the page.

Plus, you can view the anchor text analysis for the checked list. 

Click on "View" and select "Anchor Text Analysis".

anchor text analysis in Backlink Diver

The anchor text analysis presents the report about the usage of each anchor text in the list of checked URLs.

You can export the anchor text analysis report to an Excel file.

export anchor text analysis

If you click on "View" and select "Anchor Text Analysis Chart", you will see the anchor text analysis report as a chart.

You can save the chart as a picture to your disk.

save anchor text analysis chart in Backlink Diver

If you have sveral lists under the project, you can view the assembled anchor text analysis report and chart for the whole project.

Put the mouse on the project name, click on "View" and select "Anchor Text Analysis for Current Project" or "Anchor Text Analysis Chart for Current Project".
 

How to Verify 2nd Tier Links

The process of verifying your 2nd tier links is almost the same. The only difference is that you have to search for your 2nd tier backlinks using your keywords and not domains.

Create a new project with your keywords the program will use to search for your 2nd tier links.

create project using keywords

Paste or load the URLs of the pages linking to the pages where your 1st tier links are.

Click "Verify".

verify 2nd tier backlinks

After the verification is complete, click on "Toggle View" to show the URLs and anchor text of your 2nd tier backlinks.

You can also view the anchor text analysis report and chart for your 2nd tier backlinks.