Linktrade Monitor: Backlink Tracker for Link Exchanges
| 开发者 | 3task |
|---|---|
| 更新时间 | 2026年10月2日 16:26 |
| PHP版本: | 7.4 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.1 |
| 版权: | GPLv2 or later |
| 版权网址: | 版权信息 |
详情介绍:
A link exchange is easy to agree and easy to forget. Months later the partner has redesigned, the link is gone or quietly carries
rel="nofollow", and nobody notices. The same happens on your own side: a relaunch drops the link you promised, and the partner finds out before you do.
Linktrade Monitor is a backlink monitor built for link exchanges, paid links and guest posts. Add the partner page once. The plugin then checks every week whether their link to you is still there, whether it turned nofollow or sponsored, whether the page went noindex, and whether your link to them is still live. When something changes, you get one email with all changes. Everything runs inside your WordPress site: no account, no API key, no third-party service.
What it does
- Checks both directions. Their link to you and your link to them, in one row.
- Weekly automatic check. In small portions, so it also finishes on small hosting plans. The dashboard shows when the next check runs and when the last one finished.
- Email when something changes. One summary per check: link removed, now nofollow, now sponsored, page now noindex, your own link missing, link back again.
- Needs your attention. The dashboard lists what to act on, grouped by what to do: partner removed the link, your link is missing, link devalued, agreement ending, page could not be checked.
- History. Every check and every status change is recorded, so you can say since when a link has been gone.
- Check now. A button per link, and a new check whenever you change an address.
- Finds your own links. Enter the partner page and the plugin searches your published posts and pages for links to that domain.
- Message to the partner. A ready-to-copy text that states what was found and since when. Nothing is sent automatically.
- Keeps the agreement. Store the agreed anchor text and whether a followed link was promised. You are told when the page no longer matches.
- Shows who you already link to. One search over your whole site lists the outside domains, ready to be turned into monitored partners.
- Record for a complaint. Dates, status code and the last anchor seen, ready to copy when a paid link has vanished.
- Counter in the menu and a dashboard widget, so you see open issues without opening the plugin.
- Large lists. Pages of 50, sortable columns, search, and actions for several links at once.
- Command line.
wp linktrade checkandwp linktrade statusfor sites with a real cron job. - Privacy tools. Partner contact addresses are covered by the WordPress export and erase requests.
- No false alarms. A page that blocks automated requests, times out or answers with a server error is reported as "not verifiable", never as "link removed".
- Fairness Score for exchanges, expiry reminders for paid and time-limited links, Domain Rating fields, notes, CSV import and export.
- Site Health entry. WordPress tells you if the automatic check cannot run.
- Link removed, or pointing to a different page of your site
rel="nofollow",rel="sponsored",rel="ugc"- Page-wide
noindex,nofollowandnonein the robots meta tag, the googlebot meta tag and the X-Robots-Tag header - Redirected partner pages, shown with the address they lead to
- Pages that only build their content with JavaScript, reported as "not verifiable" instead of "removed"
- Pages that cannot be read (bot protection, rate limits, server errors), shown separately
- Website owners and bloggers who exchange links
- SEOs who buy links or place guest posts and want to know they are still there
- Agencies that keep link agreements for a site
- Daily or hourly checks and "check all now"
- Projects: links of several websites in one installation
- Partners with several deals, mixed packages
- Cost and value overview for paid links
- Anchor text distribution, tags
安装:
- Upload the plugin files to
/wp-content/plugins/linktrade-monitor/ - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Go to 'Linktrade' in your admin menu
- Start adding your backlinks!
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常见问题:
How often are links checked?
Every link is checked when you add it and whenever you change one of its addresses. After that all links are checked once a week, a few at a time. You can also check a single link at any moment with the "Check now" button.
Will I be notified when a link disappears?
Yes. After each weekly check you get one email that lists every change: links that were removed, turned nofollow or sponsored, pages that went noindex, your own links that are missing, and links that came back. If nothing changed, no email is sent, unless you switch on the weekly summary in the settings.
The check says "Not verifiable". What does that mean?
The page could not be read: it blocks automated requests, answered with a server error or did not answer in time. That says nothing about your link, so the last readable result stays in place. Open the page in your browser to see for yourself.
The automatic check does not seem to run.
WordPress runs scheduled tasks only when somebody visits the site. On a site with very few visitors, set up a real cron job that calls wp-cron.php. The dashboard and Tools > Site Health tell you when the check is not scheduled or overdue.
What does the Fairness Score mean?
The Fairness Score shows if both sides of a link exchange are holding up their end:
- 100% - Both links are online and healthy
- 70% - Their link is there, but on a page marked noindex
- 60% - Your link is dofollow, partner's is nofollow
- 50% - Both links are offline
- 25% - Your link to them is gone, their link to you is still online
- 0% - Your link is online, but partner removed theirs
Is my data secure?
All your link data is stored in your own WordPress database. There is no account, no API key and no third-party service. To check a link, your server requests the partner page you entered (and, for exchanges, your own page), the same way a browser would. Nothing else is sent anywhere.
Can I track nofollow links?
Yes. Linktrade Monitor detects nofollow, sponsored and ugc on the link and noindex or nofollow on the page, marks such links with a warning and includes the change in the email.
What's the difference between Exchange, Paid, and Free links?
- Exchange - You link to them, they link to you (tracked with Fairness Score)
- Paid - You pay for the backlink (tracked with expiration reminders)
- Free - Guest posts, mentions, directories (no reciprocal tracking needed)
Does it work with other SEO plugins?
Yes. Linktrade Monitor works alongside Yoast SEO, Rank Math, AIOSEO, and any other SEO plugin.
Does the plugin ask for a review?
Once, after 30 days of use, on its own page only. One click closes it for good.
Is there a Pro version?
Yes. Linktrade Monitor Pro adds daily and hourly checks, projects for several websites, cost tracking, tags and an anchor text overview. Visit 3task.de for details.
更新日志:
1.4.0
- New: links are checked every week instead of once a month, in small portions that continue until every link is done. Before, one run checked at most 50 links and stopped.
- New: one email after each check that lists what changed (link removed, nofollow, sponsored, noindex, your own link missing, link back). Optional weekly summary when nothing changed.
- New: check history and change log per link, with "since" dates in the list.
- New: "Needs your attention" on the dashboard, grouped by what to do.
- New: "Check now" per link. Changing an address triggers a new check.
- New: "Find my link to this partner" searches your posts and pages for the reciprocal link.
- New: message to the partner, ready to copy.
- New: Site Health entry and dashboard box that show whether the automatic check is scheduled.
- New: agreed anchor text and "followed link agreed" per link, with a notice when the page differs.
- New: search of the whole site for outgoing links, to add partners with two clicks.
- New: record for a complaint in the history window.
- New: counter in the admin menu and a widget on the WordPress dashboard.
- New: the list has pages, sortable columns, a search that covers all links, and bulk check and delete.
- New: WP-CLI commands
wp linktrade checkandwp linktrade status. - New: partner contact addresses are included in the WordPress personal data export and erasure tools.
- Improved: colours meet the WCAG AA contrast of 4.5:1, keyboard focus is always visible.
- New: detects rel="sponsored" and rel="ugc", robots "none" and "nofollow", the googlebot meta tag.
- Improved: the target page is compared exactly, "/page" no longer matches "/page-2".
- Improved: bot protection is recognised by its technical markers, not by ordinary wording in the text.
- Improved: pages that cannot be read are shown as "Not verifiable" with a date, instead of looking freshly checked.
- Improved: CSV import reads semicolon-separated files, files with a byte order mark and notes with line breaks, and names the line of every problem. Imported links are checked in the background.
- Improved: the plugin follows the language of the site. The edit window is translated.
- Fixed: an expiry reminder was marked as sent before the email went out, and was never sent again after the end date had been changed.
- Fixed: tables no longer push the page sideways on small screens.
- Changed: emoji icons replaced by WordPress icons, upgrade box on the dashboard reduced to one line.
- Fixed: deleting this plugin while Linktrade Monitor Pro is installed no longer removes the shared link tables and settings. Your links stay, whichever of the two plugins you remove.
- Fixed: activating this plugin while Pro is active could stop the site with a fatal error. The free plugin now steps aside and shows a notice.
- Fixed: a partner page that had never been read, or an exchange without a reciprocal link on record, was scored as "link removed". Such exchanges are now shown as "Not rated yet". Stored scores are recalculated once on update.
- Fixed: the Fairness tab counter left out the 0 percent case.
- Fixed: server errors (HTTP 5xx), timeouts and empty responses were still written as "offline". They now keep the last readable result.
- Fixed: saving reported success even when required fields were missing or the database refused the entry. Fields are now validated on the server.
- Security: link checks only request http and https addresses and refuse private and loopback addresses. CSV export cells that start with a formula character are neutralised.
- Changed: the readme no longer lists unlimited links and German as Pro features. Both have always been part of the free plugin.
- Fixed: the Fairness Score was inverted. When a partner had removed their link while your link to them was still online, the score showed 100 percent instead of 0, so the very case the plugin exists to catch was sorted to the bottom of the list and stayed out of sight. The score now reads 0 when the partner dropped you, 25 when you dropped them, 50 when both links are gone, and 60 or 70 for the nofollow and noindex cases.
- Fixed: a link to a look-alike domain was counted as your backlink, because the match was a plain substring, so "notexample.org" matched the target "example.org". The check now compares the host exactly.
- Added: noindex is now detected in the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header as well, not only in the meta robots tag.
- Added: bot-protection pages (Cloudflare and similar) that answer with HTTP 200 are recognised and no longer counted as a healthy or a removed link.
- Improved: a link that moved to another path on the same domain is reported as a warning with the URL that is actually linked, instead of a false "removed".
- Security: the two internal AJAX read endpoints now require the manage_options capability, like every other endpoint.
- Fixed: a page that could not be read at all was reported as "offline", which reads as "your link was removed". Blocked pages (HTTP 401, 403, 429), server errors, transport errors and empty responses all ended up in that bucket, so a partner site behind a rate limit or a CDN produced a false alarm every time it was checked. Rate limits on WordPress.com and several CDNs answer with 403, which made this common. An unreadable page is not a statement about the link: the plugin now reports a warning asking you to verify by hand, keeps every finding from the last readable check, and records only the HTTP code and the timestamp.
- Fixed: an unreadable check also overwrote the nofollow, noindex, sponsored, redirect and anchor fields with empty defaults, and the fairness score was calculated from those empty values.
- Added: one retry for transport errors, 401, 403, 429 and 5xx before anything is written, so a single hiccup never looks like a removed link.
- New: Compact 2-column form layout - reduces scrolling by 60%
- New: Side-by-side Incoming/Outgoing link sections with visual indicators
- New: 3-column partner info row for better space usage
- Improved: Visual arrows (← / →) show link direction clearly
- Improved: Color-coded columns (green for incoming, blue for outgoing)
- Improved: Responsive layout adapts to tablet and mobile screens
- New: Link Health Score - visual 0-100 score showing overall link quality at a glance
- New: CSV Export - download all your links as a CSV file for backup or analysis
- New: CSV Import - bulk import links from CSV files with duplicate detection
- New: Import/Export tab with complete field documentation
- Improved: Health Score calculation based on status, attributes, DR, age, and fairness
- Improved: Table now shows Health Score column for quick quality assessment
- New: Complete admin interface redesign with 3task Plugin Design System
- New: Animated gradient header with modern styling
- New: Tab navigation with animated underline effects
- New: Stats cards with hover animations and gradient accents
- New: Status badges with pulse animation for online links
- New: Modal animations for smoother user experience
- Improved: Category tags with gradient backgrounds
- Improved: Fairness score visualization with animated bars
- Improved: Form sections with better visual hierarchy
- Improved: Responsive design for all screen sizes
- Improved: Table styling with hover effects
- Fixed: Fairness Score now includes DR comparison in calculation
- Improved: Fairness is recalculated when DR values are changed
- New: Fairness reflects value imbalance when your DR is higher than partner's DR
- New: Start date field moved to top of form for better workflow
- New: "My DR" field per link for accurate DR comparison across multiple projects
- New: DR comparison column in Fairness tab shows Partner DR vs My DR with difference indicator
- New: Backlink anchor text field for reciprocal links
- Improved: Form layout with side-by-side DR fields (Partner DR | My DR)
- Improved: Visual DR difference indicators (+green for benefit, -red for partner benefit)
- New: Exchange start date tracking - know when each link exchange began
- New: Expiration date support for time-limited exchanges (e.g. 1 year agreements)
- New: Visual expiration indicators in link overview (expired, expiring soon)
- Improved: Link overview now shows start date and expiration status
- Initial release
- Link tracking for exchanges, paid, and free links
- Automatic monthly link checking
- HTTP status, nofollow, noindex detection
- Fairness score for link exchanges
- Email notifications for expiring links
- Domain rating tracking
- Partner contact management
- Multi-language support (English, German)