Alternative To Spreadsheets

[waynekolenchuk]

I've been using spreadsheets to track my link-building efforts and am looking for a better way to do this. Does anyone have suggestions?

[waynekolenchuk]

Thanks. I've used Link Assistant and it works well.

I was thinking more along the lines of something that would track the progress of links I had requested rather than the status of links already acquired. Stuff like date, URL of potential link, action I took, link text used/requested, status of request, person I had requested the link from, etc.

If anyone has a good resource please let me know

[rmteamseo]

Advanced Link Manager by Caphyon is good. http://www.advancedlinkmanager.com/

[sferrino]

There are a handful of other ways, one of them being software packages. I know there are others out there but the only one I can comment on is 'Link Assistant'. It is part of the SEO Power Suite, written in Java, can find possible link partners, etc. and fairly easy to use. I don't want to sound like I'm selling it because I really don't use it, just have it installed and played with it a few times.

Aside from that you could write, or have someone else write a database application so it would be stored somewhere else except your desktop, and automate some of the tasks, like link checking, PR & PA checking, etc.