Every SEO company you speak to will talk about link building and tell you they can build the best links from quality thematic sites to help your Google rankings. Understanding how they build their own links is a great start to understand if that SEO companies link building procedures are right for you.
Our team have put together a little selection of Link analysis tools that will help you see what the competition have and what you need to do to compete in your market.
This tool is one of the best in the industry, showing lots of metrics that help our team see how much authority any website has, and the best part is it allows you to compare yourself against your competitors showing you what you need to compete with the top players in the market. For more understanding of this data contact our team.
Opensiteexplorer.org is part of SEOMOZ, one of the best collection of SEO professionals about today, SEOMOZ also have one of the best blogs online answering all levels of questions from the basics to the controversial.
Another great tool with probably the freshest index of all links on the web, again this allows you to check against the competitors, understand who is acquiring links faster and who is building better quality. Other great tools are available but you need to be fully logged in to be able to use the full suite of tools.
Not the oldest company on the web but seem to have a very smart team building ever better tools.
Google’s own offering, for this to work you need to install the WMT code within your site, this will give you a fairly good sense of what links Google find good which are linking to your site, GWT also offers lots of other useful information for help with any SEO campaign.
Great to see how any of your competitors are structuring their link building and more importantly their anchor text, this helps you see what they are targeting and also shows you the better links linking to them helping you go after similar links.
In Summary
This is just a small list of tools to help you on your way to understand link building analysis tool, our team have developed a full suite of link building tools to help our link building team and clients manage their link building campaigns.