There are quite a few good Yahoo-based (and a couple of independent) backlink checking tools (both web-based and desk-top) that are great for investigating, organizing and keeping track of your own or competitors’ link building techniques. However we have very few tools so far allowing for some fun: i.e. visualizing the backlink statistics in any types of graphs or charts.
Here are 4 backlink visualizing tools I manages to find (please add those I missed out):
1. Link Diagnosis visualizes:
- Google PageRank distribution of the domain external links;
- Link types (‘good’, ‘N/A’, ‘nofollow’, ‘missing’):
2. Freshmash.com evidently (I wasn’t able to locate any official “about this tool” information on the site) compares most heavily “linked-out” domains:
3. BlogPulse “trends” domain backlinks from blogs (I am not sure why it skips really powerful blogs and prefers their scrapers though):
4. Crazy Egg – not a backlink checking tool but due to its “Confetti” feature you can get an idea which backlinks (referring domains) bring which types of audience (i.e. where people coming from various sites tend to click on your page):
have you checked out the glync firefox extension? just downloaded last week, but haven’t had chance to play around with yet.
Yes, I mentioned it in one of my latest posts: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/firefox-addons-to-explore-backlinks-in-google-webmaster-tools/7987/
Great list, I personally use http://www.backlinkwatch.com but I really like
http://www.linkdiagnosis.com/. Thanks for the links
Crazy Egg looks sweet. Too bad it’s not free, though. But it’s not a bad price point, so maybe I’ll get the low-level option to play with
I’m a Yahoo Site Explorer girl, but it is a constant annoyance to have to get on Anonymouse or YouHide.com so that I can avoid being blocked from Site Explorer. I use backlinkwatch occasionally, too. Not as much success with Link Diagnosis, but we do refer to that sometimes. I wish Crazy Egg were free, too.
While CrazyEgg may not be free, the information you can gather from the service, and apply to your site’s usability, may be able to increase your conversion rates substantially, therefore paying for itself very easily.
Excite tools! I will try out backlink checking tools.
Sweet list of tools for backlink research. I am a frequent user of Backlink Watch, http://www.backlinkwatch.com and Google Webmaster Central for keeping tabs on backlinks.
Link Diagnosis seems sweet, and a new tool in my arsenal now.
Thanks,
Joe
Ann,
Great tools!
Another excellent tool is:
http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
Try a search and you’ll likely find your website and several competitors in an interactive chart.
Very cool tool for finding link partners!
Nice tool, will try it out.
Am totally impressed and haven’t even gone past Link Diagnosis as of yet.
I can vouch for Crazy Egg. Great data for your own analysis but the screen shots can be very eye opening for clients as well!
Great Stuff Annie! Thanks for sharing it here.
Thanks for sharing Annie…
i am looking for it..i will try it out.
Thanks for sharing.
It’s help me for Wallpaper site