6 Ways To Export Your Backlink Data in Excel

September 15th, 2008 by Ann Smarty | 12 Comments

You might have noticed that I love tables in general and Excel in particular. Once you view any data in Excel, you notice things you wouldn’t have seen otherwise. The greatest benefits allowing to effectively process huge volumes of information are:

Sorting function;
Pivot tables;
Find / Replace option, etc.

Thus today I am listing 6 ways to export your backlink information to Excel to further work with it:

1. With Yahoo! SiteExplorer you can export results to TSV file and open it as Excel:

Export to Excel: YSE

2. Some free internal analytics tools that track referrals offer an export feature.

With Google Analytics you can save the report of referring domains (enhanced with plenty of browsing data per each linking domain: bounce rate, time spent on site; pages per visit, etc).
GetClicky also allows to export referral information (by playing with”date range” drop-down, you can effectively set the quantity of the links you want to export):

Export to Excel: GetClicky

3. Link Diagnosis tool (based on Yahoo API) offers a very handy export feature for the wide range of available reports:

Export to Excel: Link Diagnosis

4. Majestic SEO (reviewed previously) that rely on its own search engine and index offers an export feature for all the reports:

Linking domain overview;
External anchor text report;
Linking TLDs overview.

5. Google Webmaster Tools offer an export feature under “Pages with External Links” section:

Export to Excel: Google Webmaster Tools

6. You can export any search results that provide RSS feed to Google Spreadsheets (and then save as Excel): just take the following steps (thanks Distilled for the tip):

search Google BlogSearch [link:http://www.yoursite.com];
copy the feed URL of the results (left column);
create a new spreadsheet in Google Docs;
paste the following in the very first cell:

=ImportFeed(”feed URL”)

Comments

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Corey on Sep 16, 2008 at 4:18 am

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SEO Ecreeds on Sep 16, 2008 at 4:18 am

I liked your tip#6 very much, because it would be very useful to track our blog subscribers information and to get the report instantly for analysing. Rest of tips don’t work for me because I know them already. Thanks!:D
Justin Smith | Searching Solutions on Sep 16, 2008 at 10:39 am

I’ve been using the export feature on Link Diagnosis lately for website audits and absolutely love it!

I’ve never tried exporting from YSE, that could definitely come in handy.

Thanks!
Profit Hunter on Sep 17, 2008 at 11:51 am

Ann, the menus in Excel on the last image are in Russian. Are you Russian? (Just curious :) )
Ann Smarty on Sep 17, 2008 at 12:08 pm

Lol, yep, I come from Ukraine actually…
Budget Hotels In Delhi on Sep 29, 2008 at 2:22 am

thanx for the article
Will Critchlow on Sep 30, 2008 at 10:56 am

Bit late heading past here, but sphunn, and thanks for the link :)
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aboange-gsm on Apr 22, 2009 at 10:22 am

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Ivan Stojanovic on Jun 10, 2009 at 11:44 am

Is there a way to export the data to Excel from Google WebMaster Tools - and perhaps creat charts displaying keywords performance in time?

Or am I just asking too much?! :)

Ivan
Ann Smarty on Jun 10, 2009 at 12:41 pm

@Ivan, actually Google Webmaster Tools do have the option to download each table listing external links (bottom of the page). But no charts, unfortunately.