Posted by Netvantage Marketing

Lesson #1: No Matter How Good Something Is I Want Something Better

Like most people who play in the broken link building space, I was overjoyed when I found the Check My Links extension for Google Chrome. jrcooper did an excellent write up on this extension a few months ago in the ol' Youmoz blog (find it here). It was lightning fast, remarkably simple and it even had a sort of sexy look to it. One thing I've learned throughout my life, however, is that I'm never satisfied, and the more I used this tool I found it lacking a few things that I felt I just had to have:

1. The ability to export to a .csv. Sometimes you're crawling through a bunch of pages and I just want to be able to pull down a list of what's dead without having to do any real manual labor.
2. The ability to see the number of links pointing to a single page and/or the entire domain that the broken link is on.
3. The ability to see if the domains the broken links were on are available and the ability to quickly buy them.

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