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Is there any good tools for toxic link checking.
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I have done a manual link audit and made a good, bad and not sure list. Is there any tools I can run over the list to see if I missed anything and help me decide what to do with the not sure list?
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I've used this for a number of clients. It is useful in generating a list of potentially harmful links and classifying them. However, you still need to manually review the results as sometimes there are false negatives.
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Nice link. Thanks for that.
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Link Research Tools breaks down backlinks as well and will classify links for you as toxic - see here - http://www.linkresearchtools.com/news/link-detox-clean-backlink-profile/
I haven't used this particular feature they offer, but in general, their backlink analysis and breakdown tools are very good.
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Not that I know of. Nope. Looks like Ian may have made something according to this post:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/machine-learning-and-link-spam-my-brush-with-insanity
But I think he took it down due to the false positives. he might put it back up in the future though.
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