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LinkPatrol Review – Automatically Nofollow and Strip All External/Outgoing Links

Last Updated on: May 6, 2016 Sourav Kundu 27 Comments

LinkPatrol Review – Automatically Nofollow and Strip All External/Outgoing Links

Search engines like Google are constantly trying their very best to present their searches with relevant and fresh results. Every day they release various tweaks to amplify the process. The major updates that affect the popular websites are housed under “official updates.”

I’m no SEO expert, but the recent series of updates from Google suggest an alarming rise in one ranking factor –the quality of content. A number of sites were affected by this and the number is only going to increase if the webmasters don’t make the necessary changes.

This is good news for individual bloggers and small scale businesses. Bad news for plagiarists.

Search Engine Journal, is one of the leading authorities on all things SEO, SEM and Social Media Marketing. Recently they released a one-of-a-kind outgoing link monitoring WordPress plugin called LinkPatrol which essentially monitors all outgoing links present in your WordPress blog.

Why do you need LinkPatrol

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Google takes their link policy very seriously and has a couple of strict guidelines for webmasters to follow. If you have spam in the form of comments in your site, the original spammer will get penalized, but you too will get caught in the crossfire. That’s one problem.

The second one is outdated outgoing links. Outdated can refer to irrelevant, broken or dead links. If your site is over five years old, chances are that there are quite a few links that are outdated.

And you really don’t want outdated links in your site.

As time goes by, the number of posts in your blogs increases progressively. If you employ multiple authors, the number of outgoing links increases by leaps and bounds. After a point, it isn’t practically feasible to keep track of each outgoing link.

You need some form of automation – you need a software. Or to be technically specific, you need a WordPress plugin.

Introducing LinkPatrol

Think of it as your personal security team that constantly monitors new and old posts/pages in your site. It then presents all the outgoing links in a highly organized dashboard in your site.

Under the LinkPatrol dashboard you’ll find:

  • All the domains your site link out to
  • Individual links grouped under their respective domain name
  • The anchor text used for each link
  • The keywords and domains that are grouped together, by author
  • Search results for all of the above factors

With this data you can do one of two things:

  1. You can add or remove the ‘rel=nofollow’ tag to all the links under a particular domain with the single click of a button
  2. You can delete (strip) all or individual links under a particular domain.

An additional perk for people running multiple author blogs:

Since each outgoing link and domain has an author associated to them, you can actually find out which author is intentionally promoting a particular site. Spying on a spy, if you will.

Installing and Configuring LinkPatrol

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Installing LinkPatrol can be done like any other proprietary WordPress plugin. Since it’s not present in the WordPress repository, you need to manually download it from you LinkPatrol account, and upload the plugin via the Plugin manager. This is found under WP Dashboard > Plugins > Add New > Upload

Once the upload is complete, activate it.

Activate LinkPatrol

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Next you must activate your LinkPatrol license found under WP Dashboard > LinkPatrol > License

Enter you license and click Activate.

Build the outgoing link index with first scan

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LinkPatrol will now need to scan all you posts and pages and other custom post types in your WordPress site and generate the very first version outgoing link database.

Depending on the structure and type of your site, the number of posts, pages and authors that are currently active – the time for the first scan will vary.

ZippyMagazine had around 40 posts, so the scan took some two thousand microseconds.

Once complete, you’ll get an incredible view of the number of outgoing links, sorted by domains and author. You can utilize this information to draw useful conclusions to your site. Let’s take a quick look at all of them.

Report Dashboard

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The eagle-eye view of the outgoing link statistics in your site. You get a bar graph and a pie-chart representation of the:

  • Most linked to domains
  • Authors with most links per post
  • Internal vs. external links –  a very important metric
  • External links per post – another important metric

A well interlinked site is a strong site. Even if spammers scrape your content, a post will a large number of internal links will ultimately drive traffic to your site. The spammers work is put to your profit.

Apart from this, the Link stats provide a small but useful cumulative metric.

Domain Report

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LinkPatrol’s Domain Report is the standard domain-to-links (one-to-many mapping) reporting tool which gives you a comprehensive view of the total number of domains in your site, with each link categorized under each domain.

In case you want to Nofollow or Strip all the links in that particular domain, simply tick the appropriate checkbox and hit Update.

Author Report

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An indispensable tool for multi-author blogs and my personal favorite – the Author Report panel gives me an overview of all the authors who’ve contributed at least one article to my site and the number of outgoing links by each of them.

When you click on a particular author, you get the domains he/she mostly links to.

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What’s more, you can download all this data in a CSV file.

Keyword Search

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The Keyword Search tool in LinkPatrol gives you a bird’s eye view of all the links that use the searched keyword in their anchor text.

Pricing

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LinkPatrol follows a one-time pricing policy. It starts at $50 for one site, $100 for five and $200 for twenty sites. All plans include one year of support and updates.

Pricing policies for future updates and upgrades or extended support haven’t been announced as of yet.

Conclusion

LinkPatrol is in indispensable tool for site owners who are serious about SEO. If you’re an SEO analyst, you can conduct amazing audits using the LinkPatrol WordPress plugin and suggest your clients the changes they need to incorporate to improve their search engine rankings.

Use the Linkpatrol coupon code “WPKUBE15” at the time of check out to get a 15% discount.

Cleaning up the outgoing/broken links in your site is part of “maintenance” which is essential for a search engine optimized site. You may also want to see our post on How to Keep WordPress Running Smoothly with these 5 Maintenance Tasks.

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27 Comments Leave a Reply
  1. Slobodan says

    August 29, 2014 at 3:12 pm

    Sourav, thanks for reviewing LinkPatrol. It really is an honor to see it recommended by WPKube 🙂

    I hope your readers will find it useful as well.

    Reply
  2. Ben @ Cheap is the New Classy says

    September 1, 2014 at 7:29 pm

    This is great. It’s virtually impossible to keep track of all of a blog’s articles and links. With this, Google won’t put the smack on us.

    Reply
  3. Catherine S says

    September 1, 2014 at 8:44 pm

    This looks like a great program that can help a lot pf people. The price is also really great.

    Reply
  4. Touristmeetstraveler says

    September 1, 2014 at 8:45 pm

    This was a very informative review, I’ve never heard of this plugin till now.

    Reply
  5. Michelle F. says

    September 1, 2014 at 9:10 pm

    That sounds like a great service. I spend a lot of time making sure my links are nogollow

    Reply
  6. Natalie says

    September 1, 2014 at 10:11 pm

    This looks pretty cool and I bet it would help, but there’s no way I’m wasting $50. I’ll go find me a free one.

    Reply
  7. Vanessa says

    September 1, 2014 at 10:24 pm

    This does seem like a great service. However, are there any cheaper price brackets available?

    Reply
  8. Chris B says

    September 1, 2014 at 11:20 pm

    It’s a little too much for someone just starting out like me but I could see it being useful for sites that have been around a long time.

    Reply
  9. HilLesha @TotheMotherhood.com says

    September 1, 2014 at 11:20 pm

    I always no-follow my links, but it would be nice to have a plugin to automatically do that for me. Personally, I think it sounds like it is well worth the price!

    Reply
  10. Bonnie @ wemake7 says

    September 2, 2014 at 12:30 am

    Sounds like a great plugin to have. Will check this out.

    Reply
  11. Roch says

    September 2, 2014 at 12:52 am

    The quality of content is always Google’s number-one priority. Affected sites are those who do not provide educational and helpful content to readers. Link Patrol sounds really useful.

    Reply
  12. Mrs. Mashed Up says

    September 2, 2014 at 1:08 am

    Thanks for the info. I was looking for a plugin that automatically “no follows” links.

    Reply
  13. Chrissy says

    September 2, 2014 at 1:38 am

    This sounds very easy to use for my blog, thanks for the info!

    Reply
  14. FamiGami says

    September 2, 2014 at 1:50 am

    I like the idea of spying on a spy! Thankfully, I don’t have to deal with that one my site though!

    Reply
  15. Gabby says

    September 2, 2014 at 2:30 am

    I finally now understand what Nofollow is! I have been trying to figure it out for what seems to be ages! Thank you!

    Reply
  16. Anthony says

    September 2, 2014 at 3:35 am

    Wow I had no idea Google does this stuff, I’m going to check this out

    Reply
  17. Samantha Angell says

    September 2, 2014 at 8:24 am

    I wish this wasn’t just for WordPress! I’ve done some light SEO and know that I have a few broken links…wish they had something for blogger!

    Reply
  18. Rena McDaniel-The Diary of an Alzheimer's Caregiver says

    September 2, 2014 at 3:04 pm

    This is some really great information and the presentation was very good with great pictures to show what you were talking about as a blogger I always try to stay on top of the current media statistics and go from there. I will definitely be checking this plug in out!

    Reply
  19. Rosey says

    September 2, 2014 at 4:03 pm

    It looks like a useful program. I bet tons of people are going to be appreciative for this post!

    Reply
  20. Melissa Smith says

    September 2, 2014 at 5:24 pm

    This sounds like a really great plug-in for WP users. I wish they all worked for Blogger too.

    Reply
  21. Payal Bansal (@TrendsnHealth) says

    September 2, 2014 at 5:45 pm

    Thanks for sharing such a great plugin!! I never heard of LinkPatrol earlier

    Reply
  22. Tamika says

    September 3, 2014 at 1:20 am

    I guess, I’ll be moving my blog to WordPress soon. Thanks for the tip. I like blogger because it was easy to work in and update.

    Reply
  23. Kath Rivera says

    September 3, 2014 at 9:19 am

    Does this works on blogger? I need this in case I need to remove all the links from advertiser. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  24. Paulina says

    September 4, 2014 at 12:06 am

    So have to get this. As a blogger I am always terrified of getting spam because it happened so much when I was on blogger before I moved to wordpress.

    Reply
  25. Jenise @ DIYFunIdeas.com says

    September 4, 2014 at 12:20 am

    Thanks for the review. I’m going to have to look into this plugin for my blog!

    Reply
  26. Lucky Seven Ten says

    September 4, 2014 at 2:46 am

    What an amazing plugin. I love to link out to other blogs/content and this is very useful. Thank you!

    Reply
  27. Nikki Dargantes says

    September 6, 2014 at 6:53 am

    This is great! I’ll consider having this at my blog when I get my own domain! 😀

    Reply

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