This announcement has been an extremely long time in the making, but we are thrilled that today is the day to talk about our second web app, called Linkpatch.
Linkpatch is meant for anyone that develops, oversees or works on a website. The purpose is simple: it sends you an email whenever someone encounters a 404 page (or other error pages, for that matter) on your website. The email has tons of useful information, from which you can figure out exactly what the problem is and fix it. Here is what a Linkpatch email looks like:
As you can see, the email provides a wealth of information about the user, where they came from and where they were trying to go. No matter what kind of error it is, you have all you need to go in and fix whatever might be wrong.
It's a foundation
As you may have seen with Feed My Inbox, the way we build web apps is to start extremely simple, let it simmer, and listen to our customers. Once we have a great idea of where we want to take things next, we build in more features.
Linkpatch is no exception. We know it's a really simple idea, but it's extremely useful for people that are behind-the-scenes of any website. We have tons of ideas on how to make this service more useful for webmasters, but we're going to let this app simmer first and listen to what you people have to say.
We're committed to Linkpatch, and building out a wealth of fantastic features in the future, just like we are committed to Feed My Inbox.
How to get a FREE 5-site account
Starting today, we have a special offer for all you early adopters out there. For 30 days (through July 8), we're giving away FREE 5-site accounts to anyone that is willing to post a message about Linkpatch on Twitter.
Jun 10 2009
1. Elise @ 12:39PM
I just signed up for the free service to give it a test drive. Love the ease of sign up. Nice UI, thank you.
Problem is that I got 91 emails from Linkpatch in a few minutes, all highlighting broken links that are not in fact broken.
I'm moving my site from one domain to another using 301 redirects, which all work. I set up LinkPatch to monitor the new domain. The problem is that LinkPatch assumes an old archive path on the new domain, which doesn't work, thus generating a broken link report. But the 301 redirects are working, and are migrating the old URLs to the new ones, with the new archive paths.
So, basically what I'm getting so far is useless. The links aren't broken but Linkpatch thinks they are.
Jul 8 2009
2. egroeg @ 7:47PM
Jul 9 2009
3. Nick @ 10:23AM
If you have additional issues, feel free to email us.
@egroeg - thanks for the comment, but our SSL certificate is actually for "www.linkpatch.com". Thanks for the concern, though.