So how can you identify the biggest itch in your industry? Firstly, there are tools that provide services, such as backlink analysis, that allow you to find out what other websites are pointing towards as well as the most popular articles in your industry.
For example, if one of your competitors creates a how-to list about assembling a specific product, and you see that there are number of other websites pointing to that piece of content, that gives you a good idea that your competitor’s how-to list worked. You can get this type of information on virtually any topic online.
| Name | Website | About |
|---|---|---|
| Open Site Explorer | http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ | Open site explorer was developed by SEOmoz with an aim to increase the transparency for all your link datas. Campaigns and discovers as to where your competitors are accessing links And then analyzes your link metrics with those of your competitors to scheme-up the strategies for boosting your sites backlinks and will help in eradicating the broken links. |
| W3tools Backlink Checker | http://www.w3tool.com/backlink/ | W3Tool Backlink Checker allows you to enter up to 10 blog URLs in one go. It provides you the number of backlinks your blog has got in Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and alltheweb. If you have a blog network and want to check backlinks of all blogs together then W3tool Backlink Checker is for you. |
| Google link: Advanced search syntax and Google Webmaster tools | http://www.google.com/ | It may seem an obvious place to start and is still recommended, but some we speak to still think this gives a comprehensive listing, but rather it is a sample because Google has decided to display. Weve found the sample has bigger than it used to be. for example, although Smart Insights is new in 2010, we have already amassed a fair few links see : http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=link:smartinsights.com+-site:smartinsights.com. In this example we use -site to remove links from our own site |
| Majestic SEO | http://majesticseo.com/ | Majestic SEO has the largest index providing the complete list of backlinks for your blogs, Majestic SEOs Backlink History tool you can figure-out the number of backlinks for any given domain, subdomain or the URL and also compare backlink discovery growth rate for competing domains; At a single time, you can compare upto 5 domains |
| Link Diagnosis | http://www.linkdiagnosis.com/ | Link Diagnosis provides you different options while checking backlinks for your blog like you need detailed report or optimized, you want to check backlink for single page or whole website, different kind of outputs and more. One thing you need to remember that Link Diagnosis works best with Firefox. |
| Analyze Backlinks | http://www.analyzebacklinks.com/ | Analyze Backlinks have a good clutter-free homepage to check back links of your blog. Apart from just entering the website URL, Analyze Backlinks gives you different options like dont repeat backlinks from same domain, Show links only from homepage, Anchor Text, Total Links, Outbound Links and more. You can opt for any option according to your requirements. |
| BackLinkWatch | http://www.backlinkwatch.com/ | BacklinkWatch is one of the popular tools to check backlinks of your blog. But one thing which I dont like about BacklinkWatch is its pop-ups of course we can close them with single click but pop-up ads always repeals me. BacklinkWatch provides you all details of backlinks of your blog. |
| AHrefs | https://ahrefs.com/ | Ahrefs possess their own index and has an enormous database for nearly 45 million keywords. Advantages: This tool offers the related links details for your blogs with time; Provides details for the percentage breakdown of anchor texts that points to your blogs. And especially after the Penguin updates, this tool proves to be a boon for the bloggers who got shattered for developing negative backlink strategie |
| Bing Webmasters Tools | http://www.bing.com/ | Yahoo Search has recently integrated Site Explorer into Bing Webmaster Tools after the successful completion of the algorithmic transition. Bing webmaster with their Phoenix update have boosted their tools efficiency immensely, How to Use Bing master tools: Open a Bing master Tools account; Validate your blog by Placing BingSiteAuth.XML file to your account or Copy and paste a tag into your blogs Index.hml folder. |
| SEO Spy Glass | http://www.seo-spyglass.com/ | SEO spy Glass concentrates more on the quality of the backlinks than on the quantities; Figures out the page ranks of your competitors inbound links; Figures out the age, Value and the counts for the backlinks ranking from 0-10(PR); Discovers the links landing page as to homepage, blog or forum. And adjudicates the links that brings more traffic to your competitors. |
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