No doubt that Yahoo! Site Explorer is still the most popular Free backlink analysis tool in the world, but along with Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo search, webmasters clearly concern how Microsoft is going to deal with YSE. With SEOmoz’s dedication on Search Engine Optimisation, they created LinkScape, a great alternative to YSE. It also provides something that YSE doesn’t, such as mozRank, mozTrust, Anchor Text and how much trust an inbound link passes, these metrics can greatly help you to analyse the importance of back links.
free backlink analysis open site explorer
Yesterday, I received an Email from SEOmoz, they are launching the newest SEO tool Open Site Explorer, powered by SEOmoz Linkscape.
Here are some figures of Linkscape to show you how powerful its index is (and Open Site Explorer is Free!)
- 0.8 Trillion Links
- 1.5 Trillion URLs
- 63 Million Root Domains
Here are the metrics it provides for better backlink analysis
- Page Authority: Overall URL score combining all link metrics
- Domain Authority: Overall score for the root domain
- Total Link: Followed, nofollowed and 301 redirecting pages
- External Followed Link: 301 redirects and followed links from other root domains
- Linking Root Domain: Number of root domains with links to this URL
- Link Page Title and URL
- Anchor Text
- Nofollow: If an inbound link has “nofollow” tag, it will be marked
- Competitive Analysis: You can compare the performance between two websites, while linkscape can compare up to four.
Now, lets take two examples, SEOmoz Blog and SEObook Blog.
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link page title url and page authority
I just saw OpenSiteExplorer.org is give away special offers at the moment (20 Jan 2010, 19:00, London Time), PRO Access Preview! Free Full Access for Everyone for 48 Hours! I hope you don’t miss this opportunity to check this free tool out.
For those who never used premium version of Linkscape, I can offer you a chance to build a report for your website because I often have some credits left. (Limited!) All you have to do is contact me via my twitter @JR_seo, or email me (seoblogmoney@gmail.com) and share some link love (evil smile).
Last, what’s your thought on this tool? Please leave your comment. My $0.02 is I hope this tool can compare more sites rather than just two.
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I’ve been using this tool for a couple of weeks. It’s easy to use and the output is quite to understand.