Backlinks Generator Free Tool

About Backlinks Generator

What This Tool Actually Does

The Backlinks Generator on limitlessreferrals.info is a browser-based utility that takes a single domain name and produces a table of rows. Each row names a third-party service that maintains a page about your site. The table has three columns, labeled "#", "Pages contain backlink", and "Status". When you click Submit, the browser works through the list at a pace of roughly one row per second. For every row, the Status column turns green and reads "Success".

That green Success is the entire output of the tool. There is no report file, no export button, and no summary page. The tool never asks for a keyword, never suggests anchor text, and never offers a choice of listing types. It asks for one thing, your domain, and it gives back one thing, a list of pages that the tool believes may contain a backlink to you. The word "generator" in the name suggests that something is being created. In practice, nothing is created at all.

A page request is what actually happens. The browser takes your domain, inserts it into dozens of URL templates that are stored in a plain text file on this site, and then asks this server to fetch each URL. This server performs a bare curl request to each third-party page, with no user agent and a timeout of up to 30 seconds. The server always answers with the value "1". The browser interprets that "1" as success. The row turns green. The remote page may have loaded, may have returned an error, or may not exist at all. The tool does not check, and the Status column carries no information about what the remote server actually said.

The live test run for this rewrite used example.com. The table appeared with dozens of rows. The first five rows were similarsites.com/site/example.com, alexa.com/siteinfo/example.com, builtwith.com/example.com, whois.domaintools.com/example.com, and aboutus.org/example.com. After nine seconds, six rows showed "Success". The rest were still pending. At one row per second, the full list takes roughly 50 seconds to complete. The links in the table are clickable and open in a new tab. A button labeled "Try New URL" reloads the form so you can run another domain.

The tool makes no request to this site when you type your domain. The check itself runs entirely in your browser with JavaScript. The only requests that leave your machine go from this server to the third-party pages, one per second, after you press Submit. You need JavaScript enabled for any of this to work. If JavaScript is off, the form does nothing.

There is no CAPTCHA on this tool and no tool-specific request cap. A shared site-wide throttle applies to every page of this site. If one visitor address sends more than roughly fifteen requests within a single second, that address receives a 503 error and is blocked for the rest of the day. The tool spaces its own requests one second apart, so a normal run stays comfortably under that threshold.

How to Use This Tool

1. Open the tool page. Find the input box above this article and make sure JavaScript is enabled in your browser.
2. Enter a bare domain. Type a domain like example.com. You can include http:// or https:// at the front, and the tool strips it. Anything after the first slash is dropped.
3. Let the tool fix your input. If you type a name with no dot, the tool appends ".com". If your text ends with a dot, the tool appends "com" as well.
4. Submit and wait. Click Submit and watch the table fill in. Rows turn green at a rate of about one per second, so a full run takes close to 50 seconds.
5. Open the links if you want. Each row is a clickable link that opens the third-party page in a new tab. You can inspect what that service says about your domain.
6. Run another domain or leave. Use the "Try New URL" button to clear the table and start over with a different domain. There is nothing else to do, because there is no submission step and no report to download.

What the Rows Actually Are

The list is fixed. Every visitor gets the same URL templates, and the only thing that changes is your domain inserted into each one. They are site-info pages and whois-style lookups. The services in the list maintain their own pages about domains, and the tool simply points you at those pages.

Some of the services are well known. BuiltWith maintains a technology profile for your domain. DomainTools has a whois record. Robtex shows DNS and network information. Netcraft offers a site report. Quantcast has an audience profile. Semrush has a domain overview. WooRank produces a website review. MyWOT has a reputation scorecard. SpyFu tracks search history. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine keeps snapshots of your site over time. These are all real, operating services, and the pages they maintain about your domain can be interesting to look at.

Other services in the list are smaller or less familiar. WorthOfWeb and SitePrice estimate a site's monetary value. StatShow provides traffic statistics. WebSiteDown checks whether a site is offline. WebWiki maintains a website description. Who.is and Whois.com both offer whois lookups. SimilarSites finds sites that resemble yours. AddToAny offers a share link. SEOptimer runs a site audit. These pages exist and can be opened in a browser.

A meaningful number of the services are dead. Alexa shut down its site info product in May 2022, and the parent company Amazon retired the whole Alexa.com brand. The template for alexa.com/siteinfo still appears in the list, and the row still turns green, but the page has been gone for years. SerpAnalytics, SiteRanker, Ranking.WebSearch, Ranking.Crawler, 500v.net, and InfoSiteShow are all retired or unreachable services. The tool does not know this. It fetches the URL, gets whatever response the server gives, and reports Success regardless.

The list is a grab bag of lookup services, and several of the entries no longer resolve to anything useful. The tool treats a dead service exactly the same as a live one, because it never checks the response.

Correcting the Old Description of This Tool

The previous version of this page described the tool in ways that do not match what the code does. That older copy said the tool accepts "one or more target keywords" and suggests anchor text for your links. There is no keyword field anywhere in the form. The only input is a single text box for your domain name. Anchor text is never mentioned, never suggested, and never used.

The old copy also said the entries include "the type of listing", with categories such as directory, bookmarking service, and profile page. The real table has three columns, and none of them describe a listing type. You see a row number, a URL, and a Status value. There is no directory category, no bookmarking category, and no profile category. The URLs are site-info and whois-style pages.

The most significant error in the old copy was the framing around "complete the submissions". The previous page told visitors that the tool produces a report of "web 2.0 platforms, social bookmarking sites, and forum profiles" and that you should work through that report to complete submissions. None of that is real. The list contains no web 2.0 platforms, no social bookmarking sites, and no forum profiles. There is no submission step at any point. The tool never fills a form on a remote site, never creates an account, and never places a link. The only action is a page request from this server to the third-party service.

The old FAQ asked whether the links produced by the tool are dofollow or nofollow, and how many submissions you should complete per day. Both questions rest on the same false premise. No link is produced, and no submission is completed. The tool does not place links anywhere. It asks a server to fetch a page. The third-party service decides whether that page exists, whether it is indexed, and whether it contains any link to your domain.

The old copy promised "a compiled report" that you could work through. The tool has no export function and no report generation. The table on screen is the entire deliverable. You can click the links and look at the pages yourself. You cannot download the list, and you cannot filter out the dead services. The compiled report was a description of something that does not exist.

Why Every Row Says Success

The Status column always reads "Success", and the color is always green. There is no error case in the tool's logic. The server that fetches the remote URLs always answers with the value "1", and the browser always displays that as a green Success. Whether the remote page exists, whether it loads, whether it returns a 404, whether the domain has expired, none of that changes the answer.

This design choice has a precise consequence. The server does not check the HTTP status code from the remote page. It does not parse the remote page for content. It does not verify that your domain appears anywhere in the page. It makes a bare curl request with no user agent, waits up to 30 seconds for a response, and reports "1" regardless of what comes back. The tool cannot tell you whether a backlink exists, because it never looks for one.

The Status column is decorative. It gives you a visual rhythm as the rows fill in, one green line per second, but it carries no information about the remote page. A row for alexa.com/siteinfo/example.com turns green even though Alexa has been dead for years. A row for a domain that was never registered would also turn green. The tool has no way to know the difference.

The one-second spacing between rows is the only real constraint on the tool's behavior. That spacing keeps the requests to third-party sites slow enough to avoid tripping the site-wide rate limit, which blocks an address after roughly fifteen requests in a single second. At one request per second, a full run takes about 50 seconds and never comes close to that limit.

The green checkmarks indicate progress. They tell you that the tool finished its request loop. They do not tell you that a backlink exists, because no backlink was created.

What a Page Request Means for Links

When the tool asks this server to fetch a page like builtwith.com/example.com, the remote service receives one visit. That visit is logged, and the service may update its own records. The service might decide to create a page about your domain if it does not already have one, or it might refresh an existing page. The tool has no control over any of that.

Some of the services in the list do create pages automatically when they are queried. A whois lookup service will show you the registration record for your domain whether or not you have ever looked it up before. The Wayback Machine will often create a new snapshot of your site when it receives a request for a URL it has not archived recently. Those pages exist because the service maintains them.

The word "backlink" implies a link from another site to yours. A page request does not create a link. When the tool fetches builtwith.com/example.com, that page may already contain a link to example.com in its technology profile, or it may not. The tool does not add anything to the page. It is a reader. It asks the remote server for the page, and the remote server decides what to send back.

Even in the cases where a third-party page does link to your domain, the value of that link is usually minimal. Most of the services in this list mark their outbound links as nofollow, which tells search engines like Google not to pass PageRank through the link. Several of the services block their pages from being indexed at all, using a noindex directive. A link that search engines are told to ignore, on a page that search engines are told not to index, has close to no effect on your rankings.

The services maintain these pages for their own purposes. BuiltWith wants to show its users what technology your site runs. DomainTools wants to sell whois data. The Wayback Machine wants to preserve the web's history. None of them maintain a page about your domain because they want to help your search rankings. They maintain it because it is part of their product.

The Value of Site-Info Pages in 2026

By 2026, the idea that a list of site-info pages could serve as a backlink strategy has faded almost completely. Search engines have spent years refining their understanding of link quality. Google's webmaster guidelines have long discouraged link schemes, and the company's spam policies, updated most recently in 2024, treat large-scale link manipulation as a violation. A network of profile pages on third-party services, all pointing at one domain, is the kind of pattern that Google's systems detect and discount.

The technical reasons have been in place for a long time. Google introduced the nofollow attribute in 2005, and by 2020 it was treating nofollow as a hint, with the introduction of sponsored and ugc attributes as additional options. Services that want to avoid passing authority mark their links accordingly. The site-info services in this list have every reason to do so. They are not in the business of selling PageRank, and they do not want their pages to be abused for search manipulation.

Indexing is a separate barrier. Many of these services block search engine crawlers from indexing their pages, because the pages contain data they would rather serve to their own users. A page that is not indexed cannot appear in search results, and a link on that page has no direct effect on your rankings. The request from this tool does nothing to change that. The service controls its own robots.txt and its own meta tags.

The Wayback Machine is a useful example. When the tool requests a snapshot of your site, the Internet Archive may create one. That snapshot is a public record of your site at a moment in time. It is valuable for historical purposes, and it can be useful if you want to show what your site looked like on a particular date. It is a different type of link. The Archive does not pass authority to the sites it archives, and it does not intend to.

Whois services have a similar character. A whois record is a factual registry entry that shows who registered a domain, when it was registered, and which nameservers it uses. The record is public by design, and services like DomainTools and Who.is present it in a readable form. The page may contain a link to your domain, but that link exists because the registry data includes your domain name, not because anyone endorsed your site.

These pages are reference material in 2026. They can tell you what technologies your site runs, what your whois record says, and whether your site is currently reachable. They cannot move your search rankings, because they are not built to do that.

What Real Link Building Looks Like

If the Backlinks Generator does not build links, then real link building is a different activity with a different set of tools. The fundamentals have been stable for years. You earn links when other sites mention your content because that content is useful, accurate, or newsworthy. You can accelerate the process by creating pages that merit attention and by letting people know they exist.

Content creation is the usual starting point. A page that answers a question better than any other page on the web will attract links from people who reference it. Original research, detailed tutorials, and genuinely useful tools tend to earn links over time. The link is a vote, and the vote is worth more when the linking site chose to give it freely.

Outreach is the active counterpart to content creation. When you publish something worth linking to, you can contact sites that cover your topic and tell them about it. A journalist covering your industry might link to your data. A blogger writing a roundup might include your guide. A forum moderator might reference your explanation. The outreach is a request for attention. The link follows when the other site decides your content is worth sharing.

Digital public relations is a specific form of outreach. It involves finding journalists and writers who cover your industry and offering them a story. The story might be a piece of original data, a survey, or an expert comment on a current event. When the story is published, the article often links to your site as the source. These links come from news sites with editorial standards, and they carry more weight than any profile page ever could.

Guest posting still works in a narrow form. You write an article for another site in your industry, and the site publishes it with a link back to your own site. The key constraint is quality. A guest post on a site that accepts anything, with a keyword-stuffed author bio, is the kind of pattern that search engines discount. A guest post on a respected industry publication, written because you have something real to say, can earn a link that lasts.

Broken link building is a technique that combines outreach with a favor. You find a page on another site that links to a dead resource, and you suggest your own live page as a replacement. The site owner gets a working link, and you get a mention. The technique requires genuine relevance. Suggesting your page for a broken link it does not match will not work.

Every real method involves another human deciding to link to you. No automated tool can make that decision for them.

Limitations

The Backlinks Generator has limits that come directly from its code, and you should know them before you run it. The tool accepts one bare domain per run. There is no keyword input, no anchor text input, and no target page input. You cannot tell the tool which page on your site you want to promote, because the tool only knows your root domain.

The list of services is the same for every visitor. You cannot add services, remove services, or reorder the list. You cannot skip the dead services, and you cannot filter the table to show only live pages. The dead entries for Alexa, SerpAnalytics, SiteRanker, Ranking.WebSearch, Ranking.Crawler, 500v.net, and InfoSiteShow will appear in every run and will always show a green Success.

The Status column carries no information. It does not report the HTTP status code of the remote page, and it does not indicate whether the remote page contains any mention of your domain. A row that says Success might point to a live page with a full profile of your site, or it might point to a domain that has not existed for years. The tool cannot tell you which case you are looking at.

The domain validation has its own quirks. The tool strips anything after the first slash, so you cannot check a specific page on your site. It appends ".com" if your input has no dot, which means a bare word like "example" becomes "example.com". It also appends "com" if your input ends with a dot. The validation regex requires a 2-to-4 letter ending, so modern top-level domains with longer endings like .online or .website fail the check. If you own a domain with one of those endings, this tool will not accept it.

The tool requires JavaScript. Without it, the form does nothing at all. The tool also makes no request to this site when you type your domain, because the check runs entirely in your browser. The requests to third-party sites come from this server, one per second, and the site-wide rate limit of roughly fifteen requests per second per address applies to every page on this site. A normal run stays under that limit by design.

There is no export. The table on screen is the entire output, and the only way to save it is to copy the URLs yourself or to bookmark the page. There is no way to share a run, no way to compare two domains side by side, and no way to schedule a run for later.

The most important limit is conceptual. The tool does not place links, and it does not submit anything anywhere. It requests pages. The word "generator" describes an output that the tool never creates. If your goal is to build backlinks, this tool will not do that, because no tool that only requests pages can do that.

What the Live Test Showed

The live test run for this rewrite used example.com, the domain reserved by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority for documentation purposes. The table appeared with dozens of rows as expected. The first rows were similarsites.com/site/example.com, alexa.com/siteinfo/example.com, builtwith.com/example.com, whois.domaintools.com/example.com, and aboutus.org/example.com.

After nine seconds, six rows showed "Success". The rest were still pending. The pace matched the code's design of roughly one row per second, which means the full list takes about 50 seconds to complete. The rows filled in order, and each one turned green as the server returned its answer.

The test confirmed that the alexa.com row appears and turns green even though Alexa is a dead service. Amazon announced the shutdown of Alexa.com in 2022, and the site has been offline since. The tool fetched the URL, received whatever response the dead domain returns, and reported Success. That single row demonstrates the central flaw in the tool's design. It cannot distinguish between a live service and a retired one.

The test also confirmed that the links in the table are clickable and open in a new tab. The "Try New URL" button reloads the form and clears the table. No export option appeared, and no report was generated. The test produced exactly one output, the on-screen table, and nothing else.

The tool behaves exactly as its code describes. It fills a table with green checkmarks at a steady pace, and it never reports an error, because it never checks for one.

Related Tools

If you want to find links that are actually pointing at your site, use the Broken Links Checker to identify pages on your own site that return errors and may be wasting link equity.

When you have a list of backlinks that search engines have not picked up yet, the Fast Backlink Indexer can help you request indexing for those URLs through the usual search engine channels.

To understand the full profile of who links to you and how those links look, the Link Analyzer gives you a structured view of your existing backlinks rather than a list of pages that might mention you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this tool actually create backlinks for my site?

No. The tool requests dozens of third-party pages about your domain, and it does not place a link on any of them. A page request is a read operation, not a write operation. The remote service receives one visit, and it decides what to do with that visit. The tool has no way to add a link to a page it does not control.

Why does every row show a green Success?

The server that fetches the remote URLs always answers with the value "1", and the browser always displays that as Success. The server never checks the HTTP status code of the remote page, and it never verifies that the page exists. A row for a dead service like Alexa turns green just like a row for a live service like BuiltWith.

Are the links on these site-info pages dofollow or nofollow?

Most of the services in the list mark their outbound links as nofollow, and several block their pages from being indexed entirely. A nofollow link tells search engines not to pass authority, and a noindex page cannot appear in search results. The question of dofollow versus nofollow only matters if a link exists, and the tool does not create links.

How many submissions should I complete per day?

You should complete zero submissions, because there is no submission step in this tool. The old version of this page described a workflow of working through a report and completing submissions on web platforms and forum profiles. That workflow does not exist. The tool requests pages, and it never fills out a form on a remote site.

Can I use this tool for a domain with a modern top-level domain?

The validation requires a 2-to-4 letter ending, so domains with endings like .online or .website will fail the check. The tool also strips anything after the first slash and appends ".com" to input with no dot. If your domain does not match the validation rules, the popup tells you to "Enter your domain name" and nothing runs.

What should I use instead if I want real backlinks?

Create content that other sites want to cite, and tell relevant sites about it through outreach. Publish original research, write detailed guides, and offer expert comments to journalists in your industry. Real links come from human decisions, and no automated page request can substitute for that process.