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What I need it's to provide the url of my site and let the checker tell me if found a link to any page of my site...
Simple don't you think? Well, I can't find that tool...
you can write linkdomain:domain.com but that shows indexed web pages only and maybe you are ignoring other links to you that way.
Help!
I care about they link to me that's all. You may be interested because that site may be very popular soon and drive you great traffic, or they have lot of traffic on December but 0 traffic now or past 3 months.
Or you care the anchor text the give you, or the pr...
Anybody?
I also use Reciprocal Link Checker (RLC). This little app will look at specific pages on other sites to check for links, and if it doesn't find a link it can be instructed to spider the whole site. This seems to find about 50% to 55% of the links initially.
Then I also do manual checking. This is the most time consuming, but I only have to use it for sites where links have not been found using the first two methods, above. Manual checking finds about 20% of the links initially.
By "initially" I mean the first time the link is discovered/found. Once the links have been found, then I just use RLC to monitor the links, although it can also be done by the linking script itself resident on the site.
The problem we have is finding the links to start with, the initial discovery of them. Some sites can take a month to six weeks to reciprocate a link, and you may not even hear from them via email that the link has been established or where it is.
Some sites will send an email stating they've established the link but post the wrong URL, others will change the category on you and give no warning.
The problem is a bit too complex for any single tool to do everything.
The search engines are the fastest. You run that script and 5 minutes later you have results. RLC is limited by bandwidth and site sizes. Spidering sites can take forever and ever. (I once calculated I needed 4.2 TB of bandwidth on a monthly basis to rely 100% on RLC for finding links, which is why I had to find other solutions.) Manual checking is actually the best, but of course, it is so labor intensive while at the same time being excessively boring that it must always be used judiciously, with discretion.
I would agree that finding the links initially would be boring. I just wish everyone would email back saying that put the link up.
One thing you could do to prevent this, is not give your sites details in the first email. You obviously give them your url, but you say something to the effect that if they want to exchange links, just reply back and you will send them your sites info (url, anchor text, and description).
Doing things this way ensures that those who don't send back are 99% guaranteed to have not put any link.
I also use a wicked link exchange program that will automatically check all sites that I have a link exchange with. If any are found to not have the link, then it shows this. I should say that it doesn't check the whole site, it checks the page that you initially specify your link is on. Doing link exchanges in the above manner, should ensure that you know what page your link is on.
It would drain to many resources, and take to much time to search an entire site for your link I would think.
Thoughts?
C.K.
You complain that only shows you indexed pages, but how on earth could you ever find non-indexed pages? That's the only way to go.
It's pretty easy: you tell the "spider" where to look since you know what urls your linkpartners have.
For instance, you may point to an url or htm or txt file containing the urls of your link partners.
Spider goes there, take a look for links to you and tell you what found or not...
I tried some but none worked as good as needed... takes too long, dont look for variations, don't look in the whole site, and so on...
