https://github.com/infinitnet/guest-post-footprint-checker
Checks a list of URLs or domains for known guest post footprints
https://github.com/infinitnet/guest-post-footprint-checker
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Checks a list of URLs or domains for known guest post footprints
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/infinitnet/guest-post-footprint-checker
- Owner: infinitnet
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2019-04-24T10:47:26.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-08-12T07:32:10.000Z (about 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-23T10:42:31.392Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: seo, seo-optimization, seo-tools, seotools
- Language: Shell
- Size: 19.5 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 3
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# Guest Post Footprint Checker
Simple Bash script that checks a list of URLs or domains for known guest post footprints using cURL and saves the results to a CSV.
## Why do I need this?
Google started to go after links from obvious guest posts. You need this script if:
- You were hit by a manual action (unnatural inbound links) and want to recover
- You're buying links and want to make sure you only get low-risk placements without footprints
- You're an agency, link builder or guest post vendor and want to make sure you only offer safe links to your clients
## Requirements
Just Bash and cURL.
## How do I run this?
1. Download the repository
2. Add the URLs or domains you want to check to `urls.txt` (one per line)
3. Customize footprints you want to check for by editing `footprints.txt` (one per line - optional step)
4. Open a command line and navigate to the directory that contains the script and the txt files using `cd targetdirectory` to change directory and `ls -l` to list current files and directories
5. Type `bash guest-post-footprint-checker.sh`, hit enter and wait until it's done
6. Open `output.csv` with Excel to view the results
### Linux
You already have everything you need. Just follow instructions above.
### Mac OS
You already have everything you need. Just follow instructions above.
### Windows
Follow [this tutorial](https://itsfoss.com/install-bash-on-windows/) to get Bash working on Linux (use Ubuntu for that). Then follow instructions above. You could also run this on a Linux server, inside a Linux VM, or use dual boot instead.