Checking Links -- other tools

What's new?

Netscape "What's New?" on the Bookmarks menu

MSIE "Add to Favorites" subscription

URL minder, http://www.netmind.com/URL-minder/URL-minder.html

Digital Bindery, http://www.bindery.com/

You specify a web page you care about (e.g. the target of a link from your pages), then receive e-mail whenever that page changes.

Checking your meta tag usage

Meta Medic, http://www.northernwebs.com/set/setsimjr.html

How well will search engines provide links to my pages?

Who links TO me?

Alta Vista, http://altavista.digital.com/ (global) and http://search.uoregon.edu/ (UO)

Alta Vista can tell you what pages contain links to a particular URL. Use the search string  +link:URL

Exercise: find out what UO pages refer to your home page.

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