Guides

Guides to deleted websites, archives and backlinks

Plain, practical answers to the questions people ask when a website disappears.

• How to Check If a Website Is Really GoneA step-by-step way to tell a deleted website from a temporary outage, using status codes, platform error pages and the Internet Archive.
• How to See What a Deleted Website Looked LikeUse the Wayback Machine to view an old copy of a deleted site, read its calendar, and understand why some archived pages look broken.
• Do Backlinks to a Deleted Website Still Help?What happens to links when the site they point to is deleted, why they rarely pass to a new site, and the honest ways to use them.

Want to try it? Use the address checker or browse deleted sites with their archived previews.