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Link Harvester also auto-checks boxes next to each site that links in more than
four times so that you can re-query the tool to filter out the sites that link in many
times to search deeper through the backlink database quickly and easily. That is
something that none of the paid link analysis tools do.
In addition to displaying a link from each of the sites linking in, you can easily
export the data to a spreadsheet. It is free, open source, and uses the Yahoo! API,
so you do not have to worry about the tool getting blocked.
GoLexa
Some people have described GoLexa as a Swiss Army knife tool for SEO. It does
not give the detailed link analysis data that some of the above tools do, but it does
have many useful and interesting features.
Microsoft Forward Links
Many search engines allow you to search for what pages link to your site, but
Microsoft was the first engine to show you what pages a specific domain links at.
linkfromdomain:site.com is the syntax for Microsoft?s forward link command.
You can use the forward links function in a number of ways:
? To quickly check the quality and types of sites that a site links to
? To get a rough indication of what percent of a site?s links are reciprocal
or nepotistic in nature (linkfomdomain:site.com linkdomain:site.com).
? To create an index of seed sites for creating a topic-specific search
engine using the Google Custom Search Engine technology.
Bonus Linking Tip
One of the best ways to use these linking tools is to use them to track the links
pointing to a website that has moved. Alert webmasters to broken links on their
sites and let them know that you have a similar site. Many webmasters will likely
link to your site, especially if you list multiple, similar, useful sites and they do not
think your motives are 100% selfish.
Being Smooth
Sometimes it helps to be a bit smooth. Sometimes I suggest a few resources other
than my own. Sometimes I just put my URL under my name as if its part of my
signature. Other times I just ask for feedback on an idea. All techniques have
worked to get me many quality inbound links in a short period of time.
A non-link-request link request may actually have a higher conversion rate than an
active link request with some webmasters. You have to read the motives of the
webmaster.