Must Have SEO and Link Building Tools in Your Arsenal 2
This is a second part of the article “Must Have SEO and Link Building Tools in Your Arsenal”. Here we cover: hub finder, link harvester, linkscape.
Hub finder Tool from SEO book
Hub finder takes data from Yahoo through the API, and looks at co-occuring links for a set of websites. Co-occuring links from one page to several sites in your keyword space may indicate a hub, therefore it is beneficial to obtain those links. In order to get the widest range of hub results, specify up to 10 competitors, excluding your website.
The tool used to be free but is now only available to SEO book members. Here is a free mirror for this tool. Set of results may vary from a dozen, to few hundred “hubs”. The only thing you have to do is filter out low quality websites, which is not hard to do at all.
Link Harvester From SEO Book
Link harvester is a great tool from SEO book that shows domains linking to a website, C block IPs, and .edu, .gov, .mil domains, which may have larger impact on search engine rankings. It includes links to archive.org, WHOIS, and other information.
SEO Moz Linkscape
This tool is similar to Majestic SEO in functionality, but I find it is very limiting. First of all its index is at least 10 times smaller then Majestic SEO. Second, it limits the number of links you can see for any domain to 2000. Third, it costs more than Majestic SEO. The tool is loosing to Majestic SEO in everything, yet SEO Moz is charging an arm and a leg it. Why?
Rand Fishkin has been accused of lying about the source of data for Linkscape. First he said they have a spider, then it was revealed they have a spider + they use Yahoo and other data providers.
Give it a try: http://www.seomoz.org/linkscape
There are 54 billion URLs, in contrast Majestic SEO has 1 trillion.
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