Anyone Have a Tool or Method to Track Successful Link Removals?

[Lukin]

Hello All,

I am undertaking the daunting task of a link removal campaign.

I've got a pretty good plan for my work flow in terms of doing the backlink research, gathering contact information, and sending the email requests.

Where I'm a bit stuck is in regards to tracking the links that actually get removed.

Obviously if someone replies to my email telling me they removed it, then that makes it pretty clear. However, there may be cases where someone removes the link, but does not respond.

I know Moz has a ton of link tools (which I'm still getting familiar with). Is there a report or something I can generate that would show me links that did exist previously but have now been removed?

If Moz cannot do it, does anyone have a recommendation on another tool that can track links to inform me whether or not they have been removed.

Thanks!

[Dr-Pete]

Unfortunately, I don't think we track a lot of history, beyond raw numbers. I'm not aware of anything where we'd show a link disappearing from the link graph. Majestic tracks more history, but I don't think they do it by the individual link either (we're both focused on link acquisition/growth). You get export our link data, but that gets pretty manual.

Some of the removal tools, like Remove'em (http://www.removeem.com/), claim to do this.

I can imagine building a crawler that would do this, but I'm trying to think of a way to build it from "off the shelf" parts, so to speak, and I'm coming up empty.