jeremy_goodrich - 6:33 pm on Jul 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Naturally, I love to exchange links with highly targeted, quality websites. However, this morning I went through all the links that my sites had acquired by hand, as I don't (yet) have an automated system to monitor things like this.

In addition, I think the extra load on other websites might be a tad rude - though that's another topic ;)

90% or more of the sites that *did* put up links to my websites, now removed them.

Nope, not a glitch, in their place on several sites, were other, newer sites that are competitor's of my websites. :) Cute, eh?

Of course, I now removed all the offensive links because I'm interested in trading traffic, if they don't have a link to me, I can't get traffic from them :(

We've all been there before (at least, I guess we have) so I wonder: What did you do when this happened? Obviously, these are NOT the type of webmasters I"ll be exchanging traffic with in the future.

Short of a cron job wiht a perl script to go checking all the sites that link to me, what do you suggest to make sure that these other webmasters stay honest?