say I've IDed several sites that complement mine and i want to exchange 3-way links with them. how do you check to see if those webmasters aren't trying to cheat you (like putting your links up for a month then taking it down), besides manually checking their sites periodically? what if there are several dozen sites that exchanged links with you? also, how do you all usually trade links? as in, where do you place the links? in articles within your sites? on the links page? sitewide?
Same problem with me, In my case i use to create a excel sheet for each website with proper formate (with date and all the stuff). And use to cross check the back links once a month for all the sites. No doubt it takes whole day but it worth to do it manually.
Yes you can even demand them to put your link back or else you can delete their links. But cross checking manually for back links is perfect option. I think.
I use this: http://www.manageyourlinks.com/ it's a bit slow validating, but it's free as it's in beta. Checks links and if they're set to nofollow.
i always do cross checking manually, and for those who remove my link i'll never cooperate with them anymore.
You can always write a small program that looks for your link on a certain page and set it to run every week or so. Checking manually is a tedious task!
Yep. I'm also a happy user of LinkAssistant. Among other cool things, it checks if the backlink is there, if it's a rel=nofollow, if it's being indexed (some bad guys deny access to the page with link via robots.txt), if it's a script link, etc... Warkot
As syted mentioned our service does exactly this. Confirms the links are in place, confirms the page isnt being blocked to the search engines via robots nofollow, as well as confirms the link doesnt have a NoFollow tag around it. It also has a handy interface to track and keep up with paid link campaigns. Also we are currently rewriting the script so it checks your links once a day, that way you never have to wait for the script to load. Sign up now while its still free