Verify your link exchange partner

This SEO thing is a pain in the @$$ sometimes. You work and try to find good partners with good page rank to help your domain rank higher and in exchange for a link on his website, you put one of his on yours.

Well, some webmasters are honest. But some are not. And that’s when the process starts to get messy. You put his link and than you start the watch: did he put your link on his page? Is the link clean (no rel=’nofollow’, javascript, frames or other things)? So, you start typing his web address in your browser, select the view source option and perform a search. This is time consuming and not very productive. In this time you could do something more useful.

For that particular reason I started the development of a tool I called backlink verifier. For now, what it does is simply crawl your partner’s page that you specify and search for your domain in all the links available on that particular page and when it finds it it checks whether your link has a nofollow attribute on it or not. Simple, no pain, no source code for you to search into. It will also display the number of links available on page, how many are outbound links and how many nofollow links are on the page.

If this tool will provide itself useful, I will develop it further so please feel free to comment on this article any problems, wishes or things you think it should do.

As a future development “to do” list, I have in mind the following:

• display outbound links available on partner’s webpage
• user accounts so that you simply log in and start testing all addresses you added to your accound
• crawling at least 2 levels deep on your partner’s webpage (for now it only crawls the address you insert)
• cronjob that will e-mail you if one of your links gets changed / is removed
• listing of the title text used on your link

Again, you can find the backlink verifier tool here.