Assumingly your building backlinks every day/few days, your keeping track of what links you built, I'm just wondering to how other people manage their backlinks. Personally I simply add them to a text file named "backlinks", then just add to it every day. How do you manage it?
I would say the best way to manage your backlinks is to find what sticks in Google Webmaster Tools - that will give you an idea of which backlinks are truly giving your site credit.
This is my process: 1) Create backlink 2) Ping backlink location 3) put backlink in a list 4) put all the backlinks I made that day into an RSS feed 5) submint that feed to various feed aggregators 6) if there are links that still haven't been indexed, I make a blogger autoblog and set it to include a list of links at the end of every post, put the stubborn links in there, and submit that blog's RSS feed to various feed aggregators/directories This is a fail-safe method of getting all your backlinks indexed by big-G.
I use a software called Linkdozer. It has a well organized system, where you can edit articles and spin them. Moreover, it has a list of submission sites as bookmarks and article directories. This is not an automatic submission tool is more like a link building organization tool. I am not affiliated with this software, in fact I use a "free copy"
If it of relatively small scale, notepad or excel will work great. If you would like to check out all of your backlinks try this site out. backlinkwatch dot com (headsup! It'll make you close an add before you can enter a url but a great little tool to see backlinks.
Google webmaster tools, and yahoo site explore. Links that haven't been spidered are worthless, what's the point in documentng them if they haven't been counted by the search engines.
Depends on the type really. Other then profile style links, I don't try and keep track too closely. My thoughts are that other types get indexed on their own so keeping track is simply a waste of time. Additionally, I know which article directories etc that I use so tracking down cache dates etc isn't difficult. As for blog comments, I do go back and check on new blogs that I am posting on for the first time. For the most part, I don't see any problems as long as I am leaving a legit comment.
Interesting concepts people have here. I checked out that linkdozer tool, looks promising in some aspects. I really like the pinging your backlink, and pulling a feed to submit for quick indexing. Excited to see what other people share. I believe the most typical way is by using excel spreadsheets. Staying organized is key to being successful.
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I work on backlinks for between a half hour and an hour in the morning, usually a mix of forums, blogs or industry specific stuff. Gradually the links gleaned at up.
Many notepad files with Categories Article Directories, Social Bookmarking sites, Forums, Blogs to store links: lightweight and simple I like use Frontpage 2003 too, you can create table, sort link short, see all jobs in one file
I trade few links manually, and I like to "automate" my link directory. So whenever someone is looking over your site, and that person sees that you have a "add your url" page that "automatically" posts a link request into a relevant category into your directory. You create your own categories for your niche. As far as the management is concerned, my site will verify 50 links on a page with no maximum pages. You can have thousands of links. I get about 10 link requests a day by having the advanced membership software installed on each of my websites. I check my links once a week. You just click one button and in about a minute all your links are checked. If any are found to be broken (and this is where it gets good...) a checkbox will appear, and you just check the boxes and click the "EMAIL WEBMASTER" button, and the site fires off multiple emails to all these webmasters requesting that they restore the link which dissappeared. All the prior information is automatically inserted into the email for you, the exact location of the link which was broken, all of your current information regarding your current link, page, category, etc. It's very painless and it just doesn't get any better than this for managing alot of links! PM me for details if interested.
Im not counting my backlinks very often. Yes, I do link building for my websites, but I'm not monitoring my daily backlinks acqusition. Why? Here is why: http://www.modtalk.co.uk/article/link-counting/
There is of course the problem that even yahoo does not show you every link that it has indexed, so just because you are not seeing the links does not mean that they are not indexed and being counted. having said that I follow a process very simlar to that of MaxwellSmart.