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v0.9.6

Check Now, Filters, and Recovered Backlinks

  • A check that could not read the page no longer counts as a dropped backlink, and a canonical pointing elsewhere no longer fails the placement if the link is still there
  • Tracked links tiles filter failing, unverified, and passing rows; search covers destination and origin page
  • Check now re-runs a monitor from the row, and an out-of-scope result can switch to watching the whole page
  • Each row shows notes, watch region, and the last seven check results
  • Export the visible list as a CSV, and open one destination to see every host page behind it
  • Lost-link email also reports recoveries in the same digest, and the bell groups tracked-link alerts
v0.9.5

Backlinks Grouped by Destination, One Lost-Link Email

  • Tracked links that point at the same destination fold into one accordion, so every backlink of a URL is in one place
  • A lost placement waits a few minutes and sends one email listing the host pages, instead of one email per monitored page
  • When you are watching tracked links on a page, inventory churn on that page (added/removed unrelated links) no longer emails you

Earlier

How LinkGlow moved from a browser extension to a web-first product.

v0.9.4

Clearer Tracked Links and One Failure Email

  • Tracked links that share a page URL group together so the set is obvious at a glance
  • A bulk import still unverified says the check will run on the monitor's next scheduled pass
  • The inert Monitor label under that note is gone; Link details is how you open the monitor
  • Link details opens that tracked link with its fields filled, under a Tracked link heading
  • A failed check sends one summary email with a single table of problem links
  • Status text such as Link missing wraps on word boundaries instead of splitting mid-word
v0.9.3

About, Contact, and a Site Agents Can Read

  • About and Contact pages so anyone can see who runs LinkGlow and how to reach support
  • Ask for text/markdown on a marketing page and get a short readable copy instead of the full HTML
  • GET /api/v1 lists the public operations; health and product facts need no login
  • JSON errors include a code, a hint, and a docs link so you are not stuck on an HTML error page
  • OpenAPI at /openapi.json and llms.txt say when LinkGlow is the right tool (known placements, page-level audits) and when it is not (web-wide backlink discovery)
  • Unknown URLs return a real HTTP 404 with recovery links to the sitemap, docs, and API spec
  • The homepage ships nested headings and enough text that a crawler can read it without running JavaScript
v0.9.2

Longer Guides, RSS, Honest Comparisons, and a Spanish Door

  • Field notes are real guides now — same five topics, enough depth to use, signed by Abdul Hamid
  • RSS at /blog/rss.xml so you can follow new notes without checking the site
  • Honest compare pages: versus Ahrefs and versus typical backlink monitors — we are not an index
  • Spanish landing at /es that says the product UI is still English, on purpose
v0.9.1

Free Checkers for Nofollow, Broken Links, and the Bookmarklet

  • Dedicated pages for a nofollow checker, a broken-backlink checker, and the Glow this page bookmarklet — same free analyzer, named for the job you came to do
  • Each page states the limit up front: one public URL after JavaScript renders, not a sitewide backlink index
  • Public share links with fewer than five captured links stay out of search results; Agency white-label reports stay private to the share URL
  • Checker pages and the marketing footer are usable on phones: 44px tap targets, a jump to the analyzer, and no drag-bookmarklet dead end on mobile
v0.9.0

Blog & Guides for Link Audits and Monitoring

  • New public Blog with practical guides on SEO link audits, placement monitoring, nofollow/sponsored/ugc, broken backlinks, and free analyzer vs monitoring
  • Each article is written for linkbuilders and SEOs — honest about what ships today, with clear next steps into the free analyzer or signup
  • Blog posts appear in the sitemap with titles, descriptions, and structured data so they can be discovered like the rest of the marketing site
  • Blog is linked from the main navigation, footer, and mobile menu alongside Pricing and Updates
v0.8.0

Mobile Polish Across the Product

  • Touch targets sized for real thumbs on phones and tablets — primary actions are easier to hit without mis-taps
  • iOS no longer zooms the whole page when you focus form fields (inputs use a mobile-safe font size)
  • Marketing and dashboard chrome stay usable on small screens so you can open an alert email and act from your phone
v0.7.0

Monitoring You Can Trust — Alerts That Actually Fire

  • Placement monitors no longer go quiet on a dead destination link, a temporary outage, or a retry — failures surface instead of disappearing
  • “Sign up and keep monitoring” after the free demo now leads into a real saved audit path, not a dead end
  • Copy and claims across the product match what the product actually does — no overselling features that are not live
  • Billing improvements so more card types can complete Pro checkout in supported markets
v0.6.0

Shareable Reports & the All-Placements View

  • Public share links — share a read-only, branded link to any audit report with a client or colleague; no login required for them to view it
  • Turn sharing on or off per audit at any time, right from the audit page
  • All-placements portfolio view — see every placement you're tracking across every audit in one list, with when it first went live and when it was last verified, so failing placements stand out immediately
v0.5.0

The Web Relaunch — Link Audits & Placement Monitoring

  • URL analyzer — paste any page URL and get the captured links classified: internal vs external, follow / nofollow / sponsored / ugc. No installs, works in any modern browser
  • Interactive glow view — see the captured page with its links highlighted in place, so you can show a client exactly where their link sits
  • Placement monitoring with email alerts — save any placement check as a monitoring rule and get notified after a scheduled check finds that it disappeared, went nofollow, or changed anchor text
  • Client-ready CSV and PDF exports — hand over a clean audit report without screenshotting spreadsheets
  • Pro plan with a 14-day free trial — bulk audits, scheduled monitoring, and alerts for people who manage placements at scale
v0.4.0

Extension Removed — LinkGlow Is Web-Only

  • The Chrome and Firefox browser extensions are gone. The web app already did everything they did — paste any URL, get the full glow view, save to your account — with nothing to install or keep updated
  • New "Glow this page" bookmarklet — drag it to your bookmarks bar once, then one click on any page sends it straight into LinkGlow for full interactive analysis
  • If you had audits saved in the extension: they were already on your account the moment you signed in. Nothing to migrate
  • If you used the extension without ever signing in: that local-only data is unrecoverable. We held it as long as we could, but local-only storage is local-only
v0.3.0

Web App Overhaul — Analyze Any URL

  • URL analyzer — paste any URL into the dashboard (or the landing-page demo) and LinkGlow fetches it server-side, renders it in a browser engine, and classifies the links captured from the rendered page
  • Interactive glow view — the analyzed page renders in a fully sandboxed frame with links highlighted in place: internal vs external, or SEO mode showing follow / nofollow / sponsored / ugc rel policy
  • Audit detail tabs — every audit opens as Glow | Links | Page SEO | Placement, with clickable stat tiles (internal, external, nofollow, sponsored, ugc, images, broken) that filter a searchable link list
  • Page SEO reports — title, meta description, canonical, robots, heading structure, and warning heuristics captured at analysis time
  • Placement checks — verify a target URL appears with the expected anchor text and rel policy, and save any check as a monitoring rule
  • Domain groups honored everywhere — domains assigned to an "Internal" group count as internal in one-off, bulk, and scheduled audits; other categories organize domains without changing classification
  • More accurate nofollow detection — link rel values are matched exactly, so lookalike values no longer miscount as nofollow
  • Broken-link checking that follows every redirect hop, so a link that 200s through a chain of redirects still gets verified end to end
v0.1–0.2

LinkGlow Began as a Browser Extension

  • Highlighted every link on the page you were reading — internal vs external at a glance, with customizable colors and styles
  • Domain grouping to treat related domains (your own properties, sister sites) as internal
  • Audit folders to organize saved audits — a feature that lives on in the web app today

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