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Check observable HTML

Inspect a public link

Fetch one public source page and inspect its returned HTML for anchors that resolve to an exact target URL, including visible anchor text and rel values.

Example: check whether https://example.org/resources contains an HTML anchor resolving to https://product.example/ and inspect its recorded rel values.

Result

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Reading the evidence

What this inspection can establish

What is actually inspected

The checker requests the public source page through a guarded server-side fetch, parses anchor elements in the returned HTML, and resolves relative href values against the source URL. It then compares those resolved URLs with the exact target after removing only the fragment and normalising default ports.

The result records matching anchor text and rel values such as nofollow, sponsored, or ugc. Those are observations from one response, not a historical record and not a statement about how every crawler interprets the page.

Why a missing link can remain unknown

Some pages return a small HTML shell and add links after JavaScript runs in a browser. This checker does not execute page scripts, so “not found” means no matching anchor appeared in the fetched HTML. It does not prove that a browser, a later response, or a personalised version would show none.

Separate evidence from rank effects

An observed anchor confirms only that the fetched markup contained it. Search engines independently choose what to crawl, render, index, canonicalise, and count. Rel values supply hints or classifications, but this inspection cannot measure authority, guarantee credit, or attribute a ranking change to one link.

Use the result carefully

What this tool cannot establish

  • This is one bounded fetch of returned HTML. A link inserted only after browser JavaScript runs remains unknown.
  • Finding a link does not prove indexing, referral traffic, authority transfer, or any change in search ranking.