As you probably know, link exchanges are very tiresome to do. They take time and you have to watch your link partners for dirty tricks.

I’ve been neglecting my link exchanges lately because I was tired of that. However, I found out about a resource that should help make link exchanges more pleasant. It’s Duncan Carver’s Link Management Assistant, and it is free. You have to love the price.

I took some time to go through my current links, checking for reciprocal links and whether or not the website was still around. Lost quite a few that way. The remainder I added to the new directory, adding categories as appropriate to improve usability.

I really hope this makes link exchanges more pleasant for me. There are a few features I would like to see, such as the ability to edit the submission form, but on the whole I am quite pleased. It took a little extra work for me to get things going the way I felt they should, as I use CSS and the template given were in tables, but I think the results are quite satisfactory.

I haven’t done it here, but this program even allows you to import categories from DMOZ. I didn’t want to clutter the directory on this website, however, so I have left those out. Besides, there are a lot of sites using DMOZ for their directories, so there would probably be more duplicate content than I would like to deal with.

With any luck, I’ll be able to use this tool to start building more links to my website. It certainly will be nice to not have to manually add every link. I do, however, have it set to require my approval for all links and for email addresses to be confirmed. I want to run a clean directory.