1. 10 points via KaneJamison on Dec 01 2012  Flag    9 comments
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  • Jonathon Colman   Dec 01 2012   Flag

    Looks really promising. Thanks to Rob Ousbey and Tom Critchlow for building this!

  • Brandon Hassler   Dec 03 2012   Flag

    Super cool idea. I just had it installed on one of my sites for testing. I guess I won't know if it works until I get a link eh?

  • Kane Jamison   Dec 03 2012   Flag

    Brandon - it feeds off of new referrers that are passed in the header, so you'll get a bunch of alerts at first for links that have existed for a long time. It only sends an alert the first time a link is clicked.

  • Brandon Hassler   Dec 05 2012   Flag

    Thanks for the explanation Kane, I'm going to be presenting this cool tool to my SEO team today. So a new link could be sitting there for months, but until somebody clicks it there wont be a message right?

  • Kane Jamison   Dec 05 2012   Flag

    That's correct - it's biggest strength is alerting you to new links that you didn't know where live. HARO links are a good example - sometimes a client or we will get interviewed and they don't tell us the post is live. Then we'll know to share it socially and monitor comments on that page.

  • Goran Candrlic   Dec 03 2012   Flag

    Looks promising by what you've written here, but why would I use it? I can get that amount of data from GWC, Ahrefs, MajesticSEO and so on. Not to mention that on the first look this site looks a bit non professional since it uses the free template.

  • Kane Jamison   Dec 05 2012   Flag

    This is immediate when a new link is clicked. The tools you mentioned take days, weeks, and months to report links to you.

  • Goran Candrlic   Dec 09 2012   Flag

    Kane, thanks for explaining. I will check it out. 

  • Tiggerito   Dec 09 2012   Flag

    As it uses referrer you also find out what people were looking at before they visited your website. So not necesarily a link involved. This can also be useful info.

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