Patent ID: 7082470

Claim:
A method of verifying reciprocal linking of a first link between an account Owner's link page and a Webmaster's site and a second link from the Webmaster's site to the account Owner's site using a database including first link information having a link address for a location at the Webmaster's site, the database maintained by an administrator, the method comprising: (a) retrieving first link information from the database; then (b) determining whether the first link information corresponds to an existing resource at the Webmaster's site by accessing the Webmaster's site using the first link information retrieved from the database; then (c) spidering through the Webmaster's site beginning at the link address; and (d) verifying through the spidering step that a second link information is present at the Webmaster's site with said second link information corresponding to the second link from the Webmaster's site to the Owner's site.