stuck on managing backlinks

Stuck on keeping track of links you've built, or on cleaning up bad ones? They're different jobs. Tracking: one sheet with linking URL, your target page, anchor, date, cost and status. Recheck it every month or two, a crawler can do the whole list in one go. Links vanish more often than people think, especially paid ones. Cleaning: mostly don't. Google ignores the spammy junk every site collects. The disavow file is for when you've had a manual action or you know someone bought links for the site. Search Console's Links report is the free place to see who links to you.