Link building tools

[Janette Toral]

Here are link building related tools that we were able to compile. Some of it came from what Gary Viray mentioned in his talk at the recent Search Engine Marketing Conference - Bicol.

1. SEOQuake for Firefox (http://ff.seoquake.com/)
2. GooglePreview Firefox Add-On (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/189)
3. Fast Blog Finder - free blog commenting software (http://www.fastblogfinder.com/)
4. Rank Checker - Track Google, Yahoo Search, Microsoft rankings (http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/)
5. Free Monitor for Google - query website ranking (http://www.cleverstat.com/en/google-monitor-query.htm)
6. Outbound link checker (http://www.seomoz.org/toolbox/linkingout)
7. Linkscape - find out how many domains link to a page (http://www.seomoz.org/linkscape)
It also has a Firefox toolbar counterpart (http://www.seomoz.org/mozbar).
8. Trifecta - assess the strength of a particular domain or page (http://www.seomoz.org/trifecta)
9. Check backlinks (http://www.seomoz.org/toolbox/backlinks)
10. Yahoo Site Explorer (http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/)
11. Comment Hut - targeted traffic (http://www.commenthut.com)
12. Directory Dominator - directory submitter - http://www.directorydominator.com/
13. Web CEO (http://www.webceo.com)
14. SEnuke (http://www.senuke.com/)
15. Back Link Watch - check a website's backlinks (http://www.backlinkwatch.com/)
16. SoloSEO Link Search Tool (http://www.soloseo.com/tools/linkSearch.html)
This gives you a list of search engine links where the results can be a resource of forums, directories, blogs, etc. where you can submit your link.
17. SEOPro Link Checker (http://seopro.com.au/free-seo-tools/new/link-checker/)
This also shows the Google PageRank of the site linking to the url you have given.

If you know of other link building tools, let us know as well.

[TedWahler]

What a great resource that you have drawn all together in one place. Thank you.

I was surprised to see the very popular SEOBook missing from the list, especially this newest version
( http://cli.gs/MNtHhT ) which is more powerful than ever.

If you have tried SEOBook I would love to hear your impressions and If you have not tried it check it out and report what you think.

Be well.

[Janette Toral]

Hi Ted. #4 in the list is from SEObook.

[TedWahler]

I see it now, it was a little disguised in there, thanks for pointing it out.

Did you number rank them as you entered them or is the numbering random?

Thanks for the reply.

[Janette Toral]

Hi Ted. Just in random. No particular order.

[Fitz Villafuerte]

Check a website's backlinks at Back Link Watch - http://www.backlinkwatch.com/

[Janette Toral]

Thanks Fitz. I just added that one now.

[carl valenzona]

I would to ask what is recommended among all for new bloggers?

[Janette Toral]

Yahoo Site Explorer is a favorite of mine for competition analysis.

[Renzie]

thanks for this janette!

cheers!

[Renz Alcantara]

I would add Xenu Link Sleuth it checks broken links on a page. Great for checking your LINKS page or other's LINKS page.

[kira permunian]

Completely! Thanks for sharing these tools. I have used some of them and found it effective. I gonna try some in my future blogging venture.

[Jun]

Here's a very good one from Ontolo