After recently checking a link partner of mine, it appeared my link was no longer on their site - it seems they have developed a "new linking strategy" - obviously one that involves removing all their outgoing links and seeing how long they can ride the wave of "one way backlinks". Grrrrr, the depths some people will go to is beyond me. Just a warning to keep an eye on who you link to and that they are not pulling a "fast one" on you.
hardly a new tactic, unfortunately. there's a lot of other weird things they may try too. nofollow, using weird js so it won't be indexed, cloaking, etc.
Yeah, happened to me a couple of times until I got sick and tired of it and wrote some rudimentary php backlink checker. Once in a while I fire it off and see if one of my links got removed. Its really annoying when this happens.
I have found there is very little honesty among webmasters (at least those I met here). Especially those trying to boost a certain kind of site. After a while its easy to identify them by looking at them. People with sites that they obviously spent a lot of time on are usually more honorable and those links are more desirable anyways, as they will have a user base.
Link partners should really be checked from time to time. I have also experienced this situation a lot of times. I guess we can't skip this checking of links.
Perhaps we really can't skip it. It just sucks that we waste our precious time in checking links while we can use it in more important tasks.
seobook.com has one. i wrote one but its not fit for the masses (yet?). one thing i need to add is the capability to reliably detect anchor text and nofollow
Sure... A lot of, AFAIK For example, I constantly rely on a tool called LinkAssistant. It checks hundreds of my link partners for many websites (more than 20), plus it pays attention to rel="nofollow", NOINDEX/NOFOLLOW meta-tags, JavaSript/PHP/etc redirects, checks robots.txt, ... The only thing I have to do is to click a single button The only con for me was that it is not free, so I had to pay However, it wasn't designed for BL checking purposes ONLY - this is a-full-featured-link-building-solution (this is how these guys call their own tool ), and I can't but agree that sometimes it is really indispensable. Of course, they still have some room for improvement, and they say they are working on the next version of their software, so I'm looking forward to see the next version of this soft (especially since they promise to raise the price tag, and I dont have to pay for this upgrade he-he ) .
I think we all got fryed by some dishonest webmaster. There's not much you can do about it unfortunately
Yeah quite annoying! I went through some link exchanges for an older site which i dont have a script running it and found some links deleted and nofollows so i deleted theres Quite annoying though
You can try this one http://www.webmastersloom.com/free-reciprocal-link-checker-software/. It's the one i'm using. It'll actually tell you the exact page on where you can find the link to your site.
I've been using LinkAssistant SEO Tool for quite some time now. It has a what their promo letter called "Black Hat SEO Revelear" built-in. So whenever I check my backlinks, LinkAssistant cuts off and reports nofollows, as well as many other dirty things. Such as a line in robots.txt that prevent a page with my link from being crawled, etc. Hope this helps, Warkot
Ok, this may be a silly question, but how do I know if a link has a “nofollow� My admin page has a check link tab, and tells me if the link is found, would that check it?
nofollow means the rel="nofollow" part of the HTML code that constitutes the link. Just check the source of the page. For instance, on this very page the Previous Thread | Next Thread links are nofollows. I don't know what "admin page" you are referring to, but LinkAssistant does the job very well and doesn't count a nofollow as a valid backlink. Also, you might want to check out this Firefox extension that highlights nofollows visually. Warkot
That's EXACTLY why you should check your link exchanges regularly And i think Warkot is right... rel="nofollow" is a great way to stop too many similar links
Although I also hate people that remove your link after you agree on an exchange, there are cases when there is good reason for its removal. Let me give you a real example: I exchanged links with a member on this forum that had a PR0 homepage....I gave him a PR4 link from my links page. When I exchanged links with him he noted that he would be adding tons of unique content to the site. A week later I checked backed to see how he was progressing, and as I scrolled to the bottom of the page, I saw this. I removed my link to him right away (notice that my link is still at the bottom of the page).