Best Software To Alert On Incoming Links?

[Sandicliffe]

Hi Guys,

I've got most of the software I need for general link analysis, Moz/Majestic etc. But what I am lacking is software that would give me an update when one of my websites receives an incoming link? That is if there is such software available.

All suggestions and help appreciated.

Sam

[TomRayner]

Hi Sam

Not a perfect solution, but a good free work-a-round is to use http://page2rss.com and IFTTT.

If you enter the Moz Just Discovered URL into Page2RSS, it will create an RSS feed of the page.  When the page updates with new links, the RSS feed that you created will update to.

Then, with the IFTTT RSS feed trigger, you can create an alert to update you whenever the feed updates - IE when a new link is discovered.  You can have it fire to your email, for example.

It can be a bit tempremental, but I've had it working before.  Good for competitor spying and for negative SEO monitoring.

[Sandicliffe]

Hi Tom,

Thanks a lot for your response, this has really helped!

I've just set up about 10 recipes on IFTTT after discovering what it does, amazing tool, can't believe I didn't know about it before!

I haven't successfully set up the Moz side of it as it stands because Moz keeps telling me there is a redirect loop, but I look forward to trialling that out.

Thanks again for the tips.

Sam