Gregory Janssens

<p>Backlinks Patrol is a professional WordPress plugin for monitoring and managing your backlinks efficiently. Never lose a valuable backlink without knowing it again!</p>
<p>All your backlink data is stored locally in your own WordPress database — no third-party service receives your sensitive SEO data.</p>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Automatic monitoring</strong> — Daily verification of all your backlinks</li>
<li><strong>Simple management</strong> — Intuitive interface to add and manage your links</li>
<li><strong>Detailed statistics</strong> — Visualize the evolution of your backlinks</li>
<li><strong>Personal notes</strong> — Add notes to each backlink</li>
<li><strong>Financial tracking</strong> — Track sellers and purchase prices</li>
<li><strong>Contact management</strong> — Store contact info per backlink with autocomplete</li>
<li><strong>CSV Import</strong> — Import backlinks from Ahrefs, SEMrush, Majestic, Bing Webmaster Tools, and Google Search Console exports</li>
<li><strong>Indexation checking</strong> — Optional integration with the isIndexed API to check whether your backlink pages are indexed by Google</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<ol>
<li><strong>Install</strong> the plugin</li>
<li><strong>Add</strong> your backlinks with their URL and anchor text (manually or via CSV import)</li>
<li><strong>Let it run</strong> — The plugin automatically checks every day</li>
<li><strong>Review</strong> the status of your links in the dashboard</li>
</ol>
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>SEO Agencies</strong> — Monitor backlinks for all your clients</li>
<li><strong>Bloggers</strong> — Make sure your guest posts remain active</li>
<li><strong>E-commerce</strong> — Track your partnerships and affiliations</li>
<li><strong>Consultants</strong> — Manage purchased backlinks for your clients</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy & Data Control</h4>
<p>Unlike SaaS backlink monitoring tools, Backlinks Patrol stores all data locally in your WordPress database. Your backlink portfolio stays private and under your full control.</p>
<h4>Security</h4>
<ul>
<li>Secure code with WordPress nonces</li>
<li>Prepared SQL queries</li>
<li>Proper escaping of all outputs</li>
<li>User capability verification</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin can optionally connect to the following external service:</p>
<p><strong>isIndexed API</strong> (optional — only if you enable it in Settings)</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>What it does:</strong> Checks whether the pages hosting your backlinks are indexed in Google.</li>
<li><strong>What data is sent:</strong> The URLs of your backlinks are sent to the isIndexed API when you trigger an indexation check.</li>
<li><strong>When data is sent:</strong> Only when you enable isIndexed in the plugin settings AND manually trigger a check, or when the scheduled CRON check is enabled.</li>
<li><strong>Service provider:</strong> isIndexed</li>
<li><strong>Website:</strong> https://tool.isindexed.com</li>
<li><strong>Terms of Service:</strong> https://tool.isindexed.com/terms</li>
<li><strong>Privacy Policy:</strong> https://tool.isindexed.com/privacy</li>
</ul>
<p>If you do not configure the isIndexed API key in the plugin settings, no data is ever sent to this service.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>Free support: WordPress.org forum</li>
<li>Plugin website: https://backlinkspatrol.com</li>
</ul>


Backlinks Patrol

Monitor and manage your backlinks with full control over your data. Get alerts when links disappear and keep all data hosted locally.

seindal

<p>This plugin is a minimalist backlink tracker. It keeps track of all internal links between posts using taxonomies.</p>
<p>The plugin maintains a taxonomy of which posts links to which. The taxonomy is mostly invisible, but available through REST.</p>
<p>The backlink taxonomy is updated automatically whenever a post is published, scheduled or later updated. By registering the outgoing links of all posts it is easy to find the incoming links for any one post.</p>
<h3>User Interface</h3>
<p>The plugin most works behind the scenes, scanning posts for internal links whenever the posts are updated.</p>
<p>The backlink taxonomy is available for the Query Loop block, which can be used to create a dynamic “What links here” block.</p>
<p>The backlink_count taxonomy can be used to filter the displayed posts on the posts lists of the admin interface. This is a handy way of finding posts with no or few incoming links.</p>
<p>The admin posts list has a “Suggest Backlinks” added for each row, which will find posts with shared tags and categories, that are not already linked from the post. If there are shared public custom taxonomies, they will be used too.</p>
<p>The admin posts list also has a ‘Backlinks’ column available, showing the number of backlinks for the post. Clicking on the column will show a list of the backlinks. The column is sortable. The column also shows the number of outgoing links, also clickable.</p>
<p>A management page under the Tools menu can show the backlinks status of all posts, with columns for incoming and outgoing links, and commands for rescanning or ‘un-scanning’ posts.</p>
<p>The settings pages is rather basic, but allows the setting of post types to operate on (default posts and pages), and post statuses to select on (default published and scheduled).</p>
<p>Un-scanned posts, for example just after activation of the plugin or after a change of settings, are scanned in the background at bit at a time. During normal usage there should never be a backlog of un-scanned posts.</p>
<p>The Backlinks Taxonomy plugin works with custom post types, and will use available custom taxonomies for backlink suggestions.</p>
<h3>WP-CLI interface</h3>
<p>The plugin adds a WP-CLI command ‘backlinks’ with several sub-commands.</p>
<p>There are commands to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Show all outgoing and incoming links for a single post;</li>
<li>Show backlink suggestions for a single post;</li>
<li>Show the overall status of the backlink counters;</li>
<li>Rescan individual posts for links;</li>
<li>List all un-scanned posts.</li>
</ul>


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