You earned those mentions. Some of them no longer link to you.
If you write for a living, your best links were never bought. They came from a guest essay you agonised over, a roundup that finally noticed you, an editor who liked one paragraph enough to cite it. Months of work, sitting on servers you do not control.
Here is the uncomfortable part. Pages get retired. Blogs migrate platforms and lose half the archive. Editors quietly trim outbound links during a redesign. A site changes hands and the new owner strips anything commercial. None of that sends you an email.
So before you spend anything pushing those URLs into a crawler queue, audit them. Take the list you have been keeping, paste the whole thing in bulk, and let a checker walk each address one by one.
What comes back is the boring truth: which ones answer 404, which sit behind a redirect chain that lands somewhere unrelated, which time out because the host is gone, which throw a server error today and might recover tomorrow.
One caveat worth tattooing somewhere. A 200 response only proves the page loads. It says nothing about whether your name and your link are still in the body copy. Treat green as worth a human glance, not as confirmed.
The order that works: audit first, index second, verify third. Auditing is the cheapest step and it shrinks everything downstream, because you stop paying to submit addresses that lead nowhere.
Filter the results, export the survivors as CSV, and that becomes your real backlink inventory instead of the optimistic spreadsheet you have been carrying around for years.
And be suspicious of anyone promising every URL will get indexed. Nobody controls that. What you can control is not wasting effort on dead ends.
The checker I use for the first pass: https://indexvero.com/tools/broken-link-checker/
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