Search Engine Optimization

I would like to start with the best and coolest link analysis tool available to anybody - Majestic SEO. Started as a project for an community build search engine, it has transformed into link analysis tool to support the cause and make some money. Majestic SEO is the second company after Google to publicly announce discovery of 1 trillion pages on the web.

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With this tool you can find links that point to any domain, be it you or your competition. Majestic SEO is free for your own domain. All you have to do is verify it, similarly to Google Webmaster tools. It’s great way to test the product. Once you try it you will fall in love with it, as there’s no better tool for link analysis than majestic SEO. One of the pitfalls of Majestic - it has so much information in can confuse the life out of you.

• Filter by anchor text or most popular pages (the ones that have the most links).
• Show all links pointing to a domain filtered by TLD (.ca; co.uk; .au; .ru; etc), or even filter by country.
• Show all links to any domain sorted by C-class IP address. Having different C-class IP addresses is essential. If you take analogy of neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries, C-class address is the city, and if all the links come from one city (same C class address), it may look suspicious to the algorithm.
• Show image links, nofollow links, redirects, links in frames and more.

Another great feature of Majestic SEO is link domain history tool, which will show you visual link discovery for up to five websites. The tool is extremely useful to keep track of spikes in your link building efforts, but more importantly to keep an eye on competition. Spy on where they get the links, how often and in what quantities. Obviously data differs from Google, and you will see links as Majestic SEO discovers them, not Google. Nevertheless, this is the best thing we have for now.