How do you check your link partner ?

Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 4:22 pm

Normally I check my partner sites manually. In the last time I was busy with other things so I had not enough time to check all the links to us.
Last week I checked our best partner and couldn´t find his site anymore. Nice surprise. I asked him via mail but got no answer. The site isn´t online anymore as I know because of some security reasons. Thanks to Google cache !
Well, this is only one site. But there are also people who remove links and don´t tell you the reason or that they removed the link to your site. It´s not fair trade, but it happens. There are also people who use the attribut link rel no follow or some other dirty tricks.
However, do you really trust your partner ? How do you check the partner links and how often ?

Involved Joined: Oct 09, 2004 Posts: 293

I have a private section in the forum for Admin/snr members.
One post has a lit of link enchanges, the next post has a list of links to our site from related subject sites. The latter are taken from the refers list and sites where snr members find links.
Both of these posts are edited and urls added to by those who have permission to in the Admin section.
Every once in a while I/we just go thru them see what still exists, If it doesnt I / make a note next to the url.
The main links exchanges are in our "members Sites" block, "NZ conservation" and web links module....these are checked occassionally.
Being lazy, they are usually checked when someone reports a bad link.

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:51 pm

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Being lazy, they are usually checked when someone reports a bad link.

Well, there are a lot of tools to check back-links. Awstats displays also links from other sites. The problem ist there is no tool who works 100 % or I haven´t found it yet. I think a mixture between checking manually and using a backlink checker is the best.
Trust is good, control is better. Smile

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:29 pm

The back link tools pick up everything, 100s of links.
The ones that are important are those that that are (in our case Kakariki and parrots)not those in nuke sites where I maybe asking for a help on a problem.
In 12 months we have had 2 sites disappear
The main problem on many sites is links to files/pics that are on another server (photobucket) So the site staff, edit these posts, use attach mod and upload on or server, if the poster used off site links

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:05 am

I use a seperate reciprocal linking (link directory) php script which I use to add url's by hand for my sites supportes, topsites links etc and the 'link checking' function is run by cron once per week.
Three or four times a year I also do a crawl of my site using GSite Cralwer (or similar software) to find all outgoing links from my site to ensure these are still valid.

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:21 am

Code:

# ./config --as=bicycle --with-wheels --without-steer --with-road=/usr/local/curved/


ERROR: according to W3C only a straight roads are allowed.


Please reconfigure your own website before even trying