The link tracker: how we confirm your links are live
After someone agrees, HeyLinks watches the page and tells you when your link is live, and if it ever quietly disappears.
Updated July 15, 2026
When checking starts
An agreement in your inbox is a promise, not a link. The page owner still has to actually edit their post, and that can happen an hour later or a week later. Rather than leaving you to reload their page every morning, the Link tracker page in the sidebar does the watching for you.
Once a prospect agrees, the target page (the page that is supposed to carry your link) is checked automatically. The first check happens within about a day, and after that the page is checked daily.
When your link is marked live
As soon as a check finds your link on the page, the link is marked live. That is the moment the whole pipeline was building toward: a real page in your niche now points at your site. If retroarcadefinder.com asked a blogger to add its link to an arcade guide, live means the guide now actually links to retroarcadefinder.com.
If a live link disappears
Links are not always forever. A post gets rewritten, a page gets redesigned, and sometimes a link quietly vanishes months after it went up. Because checking continues after a link goes live, you can see when a previously live link has disappeared, instead of finding out by accident much later (or never).
The analytics funnel
The Analytics page shows your whole campaign as a funnel: how many sites were qualified, how many were emailed, how many replied, and how many links are live, plus breakdowns along the way.
Each stage is a subset of the one before it, so you can see exactly where prospects drop off.
Reading the funnel tells you where to focus. Lots of emails but few replies points at your outreach; lots of replies but few live links points at the handoff after an agreement. The live-links number at the end is the only one that ultimately counts, and everything else exists to explain it.