I’ve just about finished my new (free) service for managing backlink campaigns. In a nutshell, it checks that sites are still linking to yours and that they have the agreed pagerank (if any) on the page where your link is. I’m still doing a few tweaks and changes as I go but it’s ready for the real life public to put it to the test!

Sign up here: Backlink Checker.

I initially wrote this as a PHP script just for personal use so that I could keep track of all my linking campaigns. If you’re anything like me you have dozens of websites each with numerous links linking to them that you have either arranged with other webmasters or gained through some other link building service.
I found that I was trying to keep track of these links in all sorts of places, emails, spreadsheets, even written on bits of scrap paper! I soon realised that I wouldn’t know if half the links that I had worked hard to get were even still linking back to me.

As the little project grew along with the number of sites I wanted to keep track of I decied to create a website to host and administrate it, and realising how useful it would be to others in the same boat as me I decided to set it up as a free service.

At some point along the way I also realised it would be useful to keep track of the pagerank of the sites that are linking back to yours so I added that feature too.

Once you sign up you can start adding your sites and the backlinks to those sites and you will receive an email report of the status of every link. You can receive these reports on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. I’d urge you to get signed up ASAP as I may have to limit the membership based on how much load the scripts put on the server as more members and sites are added.

Hope you enjoy and I’d welcome any feedback or suggestions for improvements.

Carl.