Our new release code named “Quick Everywhere” is full of major performance enhancements. No more waiting for minutes – even complex reports like the Competitive Landscape Analyzer (CLA) can be done in a couple seconds now!

Quick Competitive Landscape Analyzer

Would you like to get a quick Brand vs. Money keyword distribution for your competition?
It works fast now. And the brand new Quick-Mode extension for our Competitive Landscape Analyzer tool helps you decide even quicker if you want to do a full detail analysis.

This new mode offers a comprehensive package of pre-defined SEO metrics to analyze your competitor websites in a matter of seconds. Not everything is available, but it should suffice for a quick analysis. The quick analysis allows you to gather all relevant information about the market situation in your niche – in a few seconds.

The metrics package of the quick mode provides you with the popular CEMPER Power ™ metric amongst many other important ones and of course Anchortext for Brand bs. Money Keyword analysis. This feel like the marriage of the Competitive Landscape Analyzer and the Quick Backlink Tool (QBL).

Choose between Quick and Detail Analysis

Switching between the Detail- and the Quick-Mode can be done at start time by using the navigation buttons in the right upper corner of the report form. A quick analysis comes with the following metrics

Metrics Package of the Quick-Mode

What‘s the boundary between a Quick and a Detail Analysis?

By selecting the “Quick Analysis” option we work like all other SEO tools, in an ad-hoc query mode without validating links – i.e. not checking for existance. This lack of accuracy is traded for speed. We still strongly recommend doing a “Detail Analysis” before making important decisions in your SEO and link building.

Compare your top competitors by CEMPER Power™

CEMPER Power™ metric shows the strongest backlinks

The Quick Competitive Landscape Analyzer is now available in all Expert, Superhero und Enterprise accounts.

Quick CEMPER JUICE™ Tool

Would you like to check a comprehensive list of domains to their SEO metrics?
(Up to 10,000 links per report with Link Boost)
The popular CEMPER JUICE™ Tool also gets a quick mode to quickly provide you with the desired results.
The Quick CEMPER JUICE™ Tool comes with the following metrics:

• Power
• Alexa traffic rank
• Number of backlinks to page
• Number of backlinks to domain
• Number of linking domains to page
• Number of linking domains to domain
• Number of linking domains to topdomain
• Number of referring IPs to page
• Number of referring IPs to domain
• Number of referring ClassC to page
• Number of referring ClassC to domain
• Hosting IP address
• Hosting IP address country code

CEMPER Power™ delivers the strongest domains

CEMPER Power™ metric at CEMPER JUICE™ Tool

The Quick CEMPER JUICE™ is now available to all Quick, Expert, Superhero und Enterprise accounts.

New Metric Package „Link Ratios“

The comprehensive set of SEO metrics was extended again by 5 unique metrics for sitewide link ratio and deep link ratio which are now available for all accounts at the “Link Ratios” package.

The SWR metrics help you understand how many sitewide links a domain, page or root domain (topdomain) has. The Deep-Link ratio metrics have been a feature in the Competitive Landscape Analyzer for some months and are now available everywhere you could see SEO metrics. Both allow you to even better understand the backlink profile of every single linking domain you look at.

Understand the backlink profile by evaluating the Link Ratios metrics

• SWR-page – The side wide ratio is the ratio between page links (BL) and the number of linking domains to the page (DomPop-page)
• SWR – The domain side wide ratio is the ratio between domainwide links (BLdom) and the number of linking domains to the domain (DomPop)
• SWR-topdom – The top-domain side wide ratio is the ratio between top-domainwide links and the number of linking domains to the top-domain (DomPop-topdomain)
• DLR – The deep link ratio of the domain
• DLR-topdom – The deep link ratio of the top domain

Link Profiles with quick filter for Brand vs. Money Keywords

All Link Profiles, be it in Backlink Profiler or Competitive Landscape Analyzer allow you to dynamically filter every metric by keyword type Brand keyword, Money keyword, Compound keyword or “Other” keywords as you know them from link anchor text distributions.

This allows you to answer questions like

• How many, how strong links with Money Keywords are there – compared to Brand Keywords?
• What’s the distribution of link theme “Financial” between Brand and Money Keywords?
• How do NOFOLLOW Money Keywords links distribute across theme of linking domains?

Dynamically filter every metric by keyword type in your Link Profiles

Link Boost for Uploads

To provide our users with a higher number of links to be analyzed at the Backlink Profiler (BLP), we’ve just implemented the Link Boost for uploaded files. This new feature allows you to ADD up to 100,000 custom links (x5 Link Boost) from your favorite tool (e.g. Webmastertools) to run a deeper research on your desired domain.

Extended Bookmarklets

To improve your daily work with the Link Research Tools we have extended our bookmarklets to support your domain/page analysis right off your browser. These fancy bookmarklets provide you with an even quicker access to your favorite Link Research Tool and allow you direct analysis from every page you are on. By simply dragging these links to your browser bar you can access the Link Research Tools all the time.

In addition we’ve also added the Common Backlink Tool shortcut to the LJT and the Link Juice Thief shortcut to the CBLT to further improve your link network reverse-engineering to evaluate link selling sites as a piece of cake.

Start Link Juice Thief right off your CBLT report

Tuned Report (Over-)view

Over 7 million linking root domains (Domain Popularity), 97k links from 89k pages on 43k domains listed

We’ve just redesigned our reports a bit to provide you with more information about your links. The number of links, domains and pages are now shown directly in your report header. In addition we’ve changed our report overview to view your most important report settings in a breeze.

Redesigned Report Overview shows your most important report settings as well as the number of URLs

Performance Improvements

To give you even more speed, we have upgraded our existing infrastructure and optimized our system in many details to provide you an even better experience when using the Link Research Tools. This comprehensive performance upgrade affects the speed of all reports and is immediately available.

Changes in Report Retention for Quick Reports

Starting May 2012 we changed the report retention for Quick reports. Quick reports will only be kept 7 days in the system after which they get purged. You can easily repeat them when needed.

API Mailing List

We now have an API User mailing list, that you can sign up in your account settings if you have an API-capable account (Superhero/Enterprise).
This low-frequency mailing list API users will get more advance notices of changes and more.
We now also publish our API documentation public.

The “Google Penguin Update” hit thousands of SEOs and webmasters and took some major income streams with it.

I want to show how Google uses co-citations and co-linking analysis to identify link networks.
Why would YOU want to identify link networks?

Maybe to remove YOUR links that you have with them!
Maybe to learn how to avoid link structure patterns too easy to spot.

After reading tons of posts that suggest manual data combining operation via XLS and a variety of tools
for pretty basic link audits I would like to show off how I can

• take 5 potential link selling sites (suspects)
• run one tool (LJT)
• automatically identify 10 potential link buyers
• run another tool once (CBLT)
• automatically identify over 750 link sellers sites or suspects

So reverse-engineering 750 link selling sites from 5 potentials is a piece of cake for me
using Link Research Tools – which power do you think Google has at his hands?

This video and presentation is not about lengthy and theoretical ways on what to do,
but shows you EXACTLY how I uncover a huge link network in a few minutes.

You can immediately find so many bad apples
that you can a lot more spend time on cleaning up.

Download Slides

You can download the slides for this presentation for just a tweet.

Watch the video

Watch the video now (make sure you enter your e-mail so I can notify you of updates)
This video will probably change your (SEO) life.

Try it yourself.

Go grab a free trial that costs you a tweet only and try for yourself.
This will change your (SEO) life.

What do you think?

Have you used CBLT and LJT to find link networks yet?

Let me know please
and please help spread the word on this.
Christoph C. Cemper

LRT hits the road again with a new version. This update is dedicated to all of you who participate so active in product development. We have therefore increased our metrics again drastic and high-pitched our tool quotas again, beefed up the link boost to new dimensions and introduced a lot more new features you will love. No worries – we haven’t nearly reached the end when it comes to further improvements. Again thanks so many customers for the massive feedback and great ideas – our roadmap is growing and growing and please don’t stop mailing us your ideas and wishes.

Higher Quotas

The recently tightened Google rules require an even more intensive analysis of link profiles to evaluate the quality of a link. So we’ve increased our internal limits once again to meet these requirements of our customers.

This gives the Superhero now 8000 and the Enterprise even 10000 links to analyze.

The number of metrics to use concurrently in CLA was increased from 4 to 5 for the Expert, 8 to 10 for the Superhero and Enterprise even has 15.

We also increased the link alert quotas for Superhero’s from 15 to 25 and 150 for the enterprise accounts.

Link Velocity and Link Velocity Trends

Link Velocity Trends - a brand quality indicator

In addition to the Competitive Link Velocity tool (CLV) we are now able to show link velocity and link velocity trends for all your links in the new metrics package Link Velocity and Link Velocity Trends.

These new metrics give you an indication about the link growth speed in the last 4/6/12/24 months as well as a trend indicator of how link growth changed.

Drastic changes in Link Velocity are often seen as negative signals and thus causing drops in rankings.

Link Velocity - link growth speed in the last 4/6/12/24 months

Also getting links from sites that have drastic drop in link velocity also doesn’t make much sense, as they are probably left abandoned or from expired domains that are poorly reanimated.

This means we can now use link velocity and link velocity trends as an unseen before quality indicator for links throughout the system.

You can use these metrics in all tools, including the Competitive Landscape Analyzer (CLA).

The Link Velocity analysis is available in all Superhero and Enterprise accounts immediately.

Country Settings

Your search results differ for the same keyword and in the same language but queried for different countries. That’s why we’ve added an extra parameter to find your local or global competitors even better.

Evaluate your most relevant local or global competitors

Simply choose your targeted country (for example with our Find Competitors feature) and evaluate your most relevant local or global competitors in your niche.

This feature increases your accuracy again.

Link Boost

Get 2x, 3x, 4x or even 5 times the link quota

Link Boost was changed so you can now use it to get 2x, 3x, 4x or even 5 times the link quota in Backlink Profiler (BLP), JUICE™ and Competitive Landscape Analyzer (CLA) tool.

The credit costs are multiplied accordingly, so you don’t have to split up your reports anymore for most cases.

Also the restriction to only have one SEO metric package for Link Boost is gone now.

Class-C and IP Popularity

After adding domain popularity (DomPop, the number of linking domains) a couple months ago, we also added the Class-C and IP Popularity now to the basic SEO stats and the link profiles as well.

Class-C Popularity

Advanced Link Counts

The Advanced Link Counts package has been tripled with 4 new metrics to look at. Simply select the Advanced Link Counts package and learn more about the popularity of your links.

Advanced Link Counts package

• DomPop-page Number of linking domains to page
• IPpop-page Number of referring IPs to page
• cPop-page Number of referring ClassC to page
• DomPop-topdom Number of linking domains to topdomain
• IPpop-topdom Number of referring IPs to topdomain
• cPop-topdom Number of referring ClassC to topdomain

Copy / Paste and Extra Columns in JUICE™

You can now use the same copy/paste feature we have in the Link Check Tool (LCT) also in the very popular JUICE™ tool. This also allows you to store arbitrary extra columns with every JUICE report. This is also very helpful if you see any list of domains in your Firefox and want to run a JUICE report for those.

Extra Columns in JUICE™

Just select the table and paste it, tell us the domain column and off you go. Chrome however has a weird way to copy HTML tables we think, so that doesn’t work for now.

New Start Page layouts

Default Toolkit

Tabbed Toolkit

We now have two different new start page layouts to improve your user experience when working, and both are based on the actual processes you work in – be it a quick analysis, competitive research or site audit for example.

You can switch between these and also go back to the “classic” view.

Intool-Upgrades improved

Improved Upgrades

Upgrading from within your account is improved a lot now as well. We show a clear comparison of plan details and you can upgrade your account in self-service as it should be – no need to mail to support for that anymore.

Bookable extra packages

In addition we’ve implemented a Competitive Landscape Analyzer credits package which adds +2000 credits to your account. The extra package is bookable from our extra package upgrade page inside our toolkit.

Our development engine is running on full steam. The Link Research Tools proudly presents another unique analysis tool, the Competitive Keyword Analyzer (CKA). That’s what our Superheroes have been waiting for. The Competitive Keyword Analyzer CKA is a unique new keyword analysis tool that lets you compare up to 55 metrics for the top ranking sites for a number of keywords in your niche at a glance.

Competitive Keyword Analyzer (CKA)

Discover your competitors’ leaks to improve the ranking in your niche!

The rules of SEO vary per search engine, market version, locale and even within a related keyword set. Therefore a thorough research is needed even for similar keywords in your niche. About a year ago Link Research Tools gave the SEO world the Competitive Landscape Analyzer (CLA). Today we added the higher level tool Competitive Keyword Analyzer (CKA) which allows you step up to a bird’s eye view.

The Competitive Keyword Analyzer (CKA) provides you with brief heat-map comparison and fully detailed table for up to 55 SEO metrics for the top ranking 10 websites for up to 10 keywords at a glance. So when starting out in a new niche or sub-niche, taking up a new client or just expanding your keyword set, the Competitive Keyword Analyzer is the first tool to start for competitive research. From there you can start more detailed analysis in the Competitive Landscape Analyzer (CLA) or Competitive Link Velocity (CLV) tools among others.

How does this work?

You can specify up to 10 different keywords and your desired metrics from the comprehensive range of up to 55 metrics. You’ll investigate potential weaknesses of your competitors while exploring new possibilities for a particular keyword to rank.

Specify up to 10 different keywords

The heat map shows you potentials at a glance. The intensity of the colors allows you to detect patterns and anomalies of other ranking competitors. You can dive right into deeper analysis right off your report by hitting the various shorts below the heat map after selecting your targets.

The intensity of the colors allows you to detect anomalies

In the detail view you can verify your first impressions and ideas and perform real-time sorting and filtering just like in any other tool of the Link Research Tools. There you can for instance understand the relation between Linking Root Domain Popularity, Tweets and actual rankings. You could also filter down to only the top 3 for each keyword and understand their “secrets” in comparison better.

Verify your first impressions and ideas

This is where the Competitive Keyword Analyzer (CKA) shows more data about relations between top ranking websites than any other tool. Explorer your competitors and niche and learn from them. Research your niche to answer all these questions at a glance among many more: How many links do I need to get have for a certain position? Which Domain Popularity is required to earn a top 10 ranking? Do Tweets or Google+ votes play a major role in this keyword set?
Tip: you can sort in the data tables by multiple cascaded columns by pressing shift when clicking on the header columns.

The Competitive Keyword Analyzer Tool (CKA) is available for the Superhero and Enterprise accounts.

Improved Competitive Link Velocity Tool

The recently published Competitive Link Velocity (CLV) tool already became one of the most popular tools of the Link Research Tools toolkit, so we decided to implement an additional view mode to optimize your link analysis experience.

The new 30 day mode shows link growth over the last 30 days on a daily basis. This compact view visualizes the link growth of your competitors’ link profiles and therefore allows you to react even faster on significant changes. Of course the 24 months view is still available.

CLV shows link growth over the last 30 days

In addition, a new filter function will show you possible relationships between the given domains in three modes total now:

• Link growth per each domain (the old version, default)
• Link growth related to all domains, very meaningful for competitors that very competitive to each other – don’t bother comparing your link growth to Facebook or Wikipedia tough.
• Link growth related to your own domain (to visualize the strengths and weaknesses of competitors better)

Possible relationships between the given domains in three modes

So this feature provides you with an improved comparison of the link growth of your full niche or competitor list.

The extended quick launch bar now allows you to start an intensive analysis of the most relevant links with our Backlink Profiler, right off your CLV reports.

Barely two weeks after the last release the LinkResearchTools SEO forge proudly presents two brand new tools. The CLV tool supports you in comparing your historical link development to your competitors’ domains – namely DomainPop, LinkPop and all types of links (No Follow, image, text and redirects). The LCT is finally a link check tool that deserves its name. Fully automated reports, the brand new fuzzy mode, complex link checks and even your well-kept Excel information (e.g. e-mail, prices) remains after importing your data into the Link Research Tools.

Competitive Link Velocity (CLV)

Compare your link growth with your top competitor’s link growth!

The latest Superhero and Enterprise Goodie has arrived – The brand new Competitive Link Velocity (CLV) tool. This tool refines our Link Research Tool Portfolio with a new Element. The CLV puts your link research process to another level by viewing your link process over a preset period of time with a brand new visualization mode.

A new point of view on your link process

You’ll get a new point of view on your link process. The CLV tool generates a unique heat map over a period of two years that is rarely seen outside the CEMPER.COM laboratories – or maybe at Google.

You’ll learn which link growing rates are examined as “natural” for your niche and therefore what’s the maximum speed you can run link building without being noticed by Google.

The factor of link building and link growth speed is simply ignored in many SEO campaigns and link projects, which can lead to nasty surprises. The heat map at the Competitive Link Velocity (CLV) tool provides you with changes in Link Popularity, Domain Popularity as well as detailed changes in text-, images-, NOFOLLOW- and redirect-links at a glance. This heat map allows you a quick comparison of historical changes in link profiles. This means you are able to evaluate how many links of any kind have been placed or deleted.

If you recognize drastic changes in the number of image links, that may point to a successful banner campaign. A sudden boost of NOFOLLOW links could point to a lot of interest in forums or blogs, or even a spammy link campaign. Many Redirects could indicate an advanced SEO tactics, or again a lot of activity in the social sector through URL shorteners.

The intensity of the colors shows you the number of gained links per month.

Has my Domain Popularity recently increased? Compare your link building with your top 10 competitors and watch your and their link process over the last 2 years. Choose between 6 various tab-based display options or the compact overall view.

Do I grow more text or image links?
Answers all these questions at a glance or choose between various points of view:

• Domain Popularity
• Text Links
• Image Links
• NoFollow Links
• Deleted Links
• Redirects

The Competitive Link Velocity Tool (CLV) is available only for Superhero and Enterprise accounts.

Link Check Tool (LCT)

Checking endless lists of links manually is a thing of the past!

The Link Check Tool (LCT) checks a variety of links to their validity and provides you with all the desired metrics from the rich set of the 55 available metrics of SEO Research Tools link for each respective source URL.

The new fuzzy match feature allows you to check any combination of sources to the specified target URLs.
Do you prefer classic? The exact match mode checks each input source URL with the appropriate target URL.

Especially for our new Link Check Tool (LCT), we improved the Excel import of your data and any additional link information from your link lists. Fully integrated into the LCT report, you are now able to analyze your existing links with up to 55 SEO metrics and still have it your existing link data such as email, prices, dates and much more right inside your report.

The LCT checks a huge number of links

See at a glance which links are still active and whether the quality of the source fits your needs. The LCT provides a review of your existing links with every known LRT metric.

The LCT provides a graphical overview of your existing links

Enrich your existing lists of links and all additional information with up to date data of our Link Research Tools suite. Of course all reports can be exported as a CSV / XLS or PDF.

Combine your Link Check Tool reports with our recurring reports feature and automate your entire link check process. Right after your report is completed, you’ll receive a summary of your possible broken links via email.

Improved Keyword Classification

The Backlink Profiler and Competitive Landscape Analyzer have been extended with further functionality. Next to your already classified anchor text the respective classification is shown at the detail table. As a result of this recent improvement, your experience on link based analysis is further optimized. You’ll find a clear assignment of the respective links directly in your detail view.

BLP & CLA show already classified anchor texts at the detail table.

Quick Domain Compare Tool

Compare up to 5 domains with immense speed!
Compare your domains based on a variety of preset metrics, such as the well-known Google PageRank, the POWER metric, the number of domain backlinks (including .edu and .gov), the domain popularity, the Alexa Rank and many more.

Enter up to 5 domains and choose your comparison mode

Domain comparison at a glance

Recurring Reports

Schedule your reports without any extra effort!
Compare changes in your backlink profile, or watch the results of your link building over a preset period of time.
Superhero and Enterprise accounts are allowed to schedule their reports on a weekly or monthly basis, which our tool automatically starts.
Start as many recurring reports as you want and the system runs those automatically for the selected date.

Schedule your reports weekly or monthly

Keep track of all your recurring reports

Improved Quick Backlink Tool

The beloved QBL tool has been extended to add further functionality.
Depending on your account level the Quick Backlinks tool lists up to 2500(Quick) / 4000 (Expert) / 8000 (Superhero) / 10000 (Enterprise) backlinks per report.

The new domain filter allows you to restrict found backlinks to your entered sites. Depending on your account level, you have the possibility to enter a various number of sites. This works similar how the SITE: operator did, except that you can do this for multiple domains, whole networks actually.

Improved Quick Backlink Tool

Extended Basic SEO Metric

Due increased client requests we have included the domain popularity metric into our Basic SEO package. As usual this metric is available without additional API keys.

New Visibility Ranking Metric

Due to the integration of SearchMetrics we have improved the value of the visibility for our clients. You are now able to display the visibility of your domain/page backlinks, even without a Sistrix API key. Evaluate your global and local visibility by choosing the visibility package. These metrics display your country-wide visibility based on your given country settings at your project page.

Visibility Ranking of www.cisco.com

Improved Favorites

In addition to the already implemented export functions we have extended the popular favorites with the Contact Finder. Launch the CF tool right off your stored, potential link targets and receive all contact data of relevant webmasters. This new feature was made to improve your link building process even more.

Launch Contact Finder right off your favorites

… and many more

Right after the release of our www.linkresearchtools.de, we just released a new version of our Link Research Tools. The outstanding innovations are further improvements to the critically acclaimed Quick Backlinks Tool (QBL), the keyword classification for the Backlink Profiler and the integration of SEMRush keyword data at no additional costs.

Quick Backlinks Tool just got better

On the basis of the feedback from you, our customers, we made the QBL ​​even better!
Further optimized queries and improved data management bring a further boost in speed, so you are now able to analyze your backlinks another one or two seconds faster!
The new QBL also comes with a redesigned report view, including the new tabbed value breakdowns, which allow you to see all the relevant information even faster!

The new QBL

The new BLP

Keyword Classification in the Backlink Profiler

Analyzing your Backlink Profile just became more effectively through the keyword classification feature you know from the Competitive Landscape Analyzer. You are now able to classify your Anchor Texts in the BLP and do even better and more detailed analysis!

Like in CLA, we distinguish between "Money", "Brand", "Compound" and "Other" keywords.

Here’s an example of a Compound Keyword: "Latest news on cnn.com" would be a Compound Keyword for cnn.com because it is composed by the Money Keyword “Latest news” and the Brand Keyword “cnn.com”. A typical "Other" keyword would be "click here".

Keyword classification at the BLP

This useful table allows you to classify a huge amount of keywords at once.

Keyword distribution at the BLP

A nice chart shows the distribution of your keywords, right after the classification.

Even more Links!

The optimized Link Check now shows not just one but all links per page/domain without reducing the report creation speed a bit. Through that, you get even better results and can do even better analysis.

Improved Link Checks

SEMRush Domain Keywords

Until now, SEMRush data was only available to customers who had their own SEMRush account and entered their API Key. We’re happy to announce that we have an agreement with SEMRush that allows us to show the number of keywords a domain ranks (the SEO metric is called “KwDomain”) for to all customers at no extra charge.
Don’t forget: You can select which country you want to see this SEMRush data for in the project settings!

QBL the Yahoo Site Explorer alternative is here

Yahoo Site Explorer went offline on Nov 21 and left a big black hole. Doing a quick lookup of backlinks of a site suddenly stopped working the way it used to work.

QBL (Quick Backlinks) by Link Research Tools fills the gap as the perfect replacement for Yahoo Site Explorer finally.

QBL swaps Accuracy for Speed

Quick Backlinks (QBL) reverses the philosophy of Link Research Tools which has always been focused on accuracy and comprehensiveness for all data reported.
This means you get to see backlink data that could be a couple days old. But not to worry; we still got the freshest and most up to date results out there compared to our competitors. This is good enough for every “quick-glance”.

The major change is that it’s not “up to the minute” which is a paradigm shift for QBL only.

To quote Christoph C. Cemper, creator of Link Research Tools:

I must really admit, this is frickin cool – I wish I had built this
quick backlink checker a lot sooner, as
it helps so much in so many situations and is STILL
so much cooler than everything else out there!

Quick Backlinks (QBL) features and philosophy

So instead of reporting only 100% validated and up to the minute accurate data as the other reports in Link Research Tools do, the philosophy for QBL is different

QBL does provide

• A quick back link list for any single page or domain wide
• Up to 2000 back links per report (this will soon improve in the future)
• Extra data for every link like a Link power metric, Domain Pop (Linking Root Domains), IP, Alexa (you don’t need 53 metrics for every backlink check, do you?)
• Charts for country and TLD, Anchor text breakdown, Deep Link Ratio, and other things we would call “basic info” (albeit that’s more than other “backlink checkers” provide
• A way to quickly research deeper into the backlink profile (Multi-QBL Launches)
• A way to historize your research (the report philosophy our seasoned LRT users already know)
• Export functions CSV and XLS
• Chart Exporting for Superheros
• The well know “favorite” and “blacklist” features you can use with other LRT functions

Quick account still has BLP and JUICE

The QBL tool is available stand-alone in the new and affordable “Quick” account.

For those cases where more research is needed Quick” Account also gets extra credits for our advanced tools BLP (Back Link Profiler) and JUICE (the bulk URL analyzer).

Also the report management, project management helps you organize your stuff.

Also the favorite list and blacklist features can be used with the “Quick” account.

That being said, the “Quick”-Account is the account for everyone – our much asked-for entry level products.

Quick Backlinks step-by-step

Enter the Domain or Page you want backlinks for

(this is even LOT faster and more convenient with the bookmarklets shown below)

Enter your data in a start form or use bookmarklets

Just wait a few seconds

Wow – just a few seconds and the report is available– can you imagine that? At this point you are able to see up to 2000 backlinks to your page/domain at the QBL.

really fast processing make QBL a breeze to work with

Currently it takes on average 5 seconds for the QBL to return its results, and we’re working hard to make it a lot faster in the next days. Stay tuned.

Multi QBL Launching

If you do deeper backlink research you simply select multiple links and click the „Start QBL“ link

Select multiple URLs you want to dig deeper into and launch a QBL for them right out of your list.

Charts you get in QBL

Altough the QBL is a really fast tool we do some processing do give you helpful charts. Some of those are the link breakdown by country and TLD, the anchor text breakdown, deep link ratio, link types (yes, we do support image links, frames and redirect links) and more… see for yourself.

More data you get in QBL

Beside our well-known Anchor Text and Link Status we’ve improved our Link Type which is now able to handle where exactly you get this link from. Even if it’s a frame or a redirect!

Link Power Metric

Additionally there’s a brand new metric for you – the “Power Bar”. Regarding the amount of backlinks, the popularity of the domain/page and the Alexa traffic rank it will show you how STRONG/GOOD/AVERAGE/LOW your link source is!

Bookmarklets are your friend

We recommend setup your browser with the handy bookmark lets we provide for quicker access from every page you are on. After all you want a quick view on the backlinks.
You can set them up by simply dragging these links to your browser bar…

• QBLdom
• QBLpag
• QBL

Quick Backlinks Pricing

The new “Quick” account is available as of now and at a reduced introductionary price.
This special price which will go up March 1 2012.

All “Quick” accounts signed up before will have their starting price grandfathered.

You can sign up here for your Quick account.

This is an open letter to our clients and prospective clients from Christoph C. Cemper, creator of the Link Research Tools.

Yahoo Site Explorer Down per Nov 21 2011

As you probably know – Yahoo Site Explorer has stopped working yesterday per November 21.
Finally. This has been long awaited and postponed by over a year, at least for us.

Yahoo Site Explorer Offline went offline on Nov 21 2011

Link Research Tools not affected

For you as a client this only means, that we now aggregate and validate link data from 22 instead of 23 sources.
The effect of Yahoo Site Explorer ceasing operations is mild based on our experience and test we conducted for
for the past months.

New Link Data Source = Double Link Data

Also note that in last week’s Link Boost update we also added two new
high quality link data sources to the mix (hence the jump from 21 to 23).

This means – for Superhero accounts – up to a double number of links for your research based on our tests.

Link Research Tools double link data amount despite Yahoo Site Explorer offline, DB1 and DB2 are two commercial link databases compared to what you get with Link Research Tools

Small Site Research Improved

Especially research on small websites profit from this as the discovery rate has been greatly improved
with this for small domains.

Small domain data is a big problem that many of the “monolithic” link tools fight with,
and will continue to do so, by concept. This is the reason why Link Research Tools
aggregate so many different sources and validate them in real-time for you.
Every report is fresh.

So, the LRT results are fantastic for you as an SEO and
absolutely unique on the market today.

Sudden Link Spikes? No, better data! Same price.

If you wondered why you suddenly see more links than last week, this is why. The new strong link data sources we integrated for you as an ongoing
improvement of the product show full effect. This can also be seen in the new feature “Link Boost” we introduced last week.

Also if you set Link Alerts you probably see similar “boost” effects with more links. There you can use the metric “Google Update date” to  better gauge WHEN the link
was actually placed.

I hope I could clarify the “sudden link spike” that so many of you see because of this improvement and can calm you that it is probably not an unnatural link spike,
but a drastic improvement of the tools.

Double Link Data and more

These are great improvements, with

the doubling of the link data,

the Competitive Landscape Analyzer,

the SERP research tool

and the new Contact Finder

I think we really boosted the functionality
of the tools also in this year for you.

I’m especially proud on my team that made this happen,
but wait – there’s more to come!

Stay tuned. We’re not resting.

With this I wish you Happy Researching
and warm regards from freezing Vienna

Christoph C. Cemper
and the Team of
Link Research Tools

PS: If you have any questions open, just let me know!

The number of links you analyze matters, so we’ve worked hard again and implemented two new input sources, bringing the total number of link sources to 23! Additionally, we’ve introduced the Link Boost, which increases the number of links we analyze by up to 7,500!

And there’s so much more: The public launch of our API, additional usability improvements, Compound Keywords in addition to Brand/Money/Other in CLA, integration with Raven Tools, new Subfolder backlinks, improved encoding support and more! Let’s get into the details:

Magical: The Link Boost

Increase the number of links to the maximum with a “Link Boost”.

The Backlink Profiler shines with new features again: Link Boost! This new option enables up to 7,500 more links for your report. This will get you a tremendously higher output compared to the standard links you get for normal analysis.

Checking this box will boost up your links impressively!

You will only be able to analyse one package of SEO Metrics at a time, but it pays off: The number of links will increase by up to 7,500 links!

Thousands of additional links in this report!

Link Research Tools API

Integrate the Link Research Tools with your inhouse software!

Do you have your own software that uses SEO Metrics somewhere? Perhaps an automated client reporting dashboard?
Or do you simply want to check certain parameters automatically?

We’ve been testing an API for the Link Research Tools for several months now with a select group of top customers. After they’ve given their blessing, we’re launching it as a public beta to all of you. We’re still changing things like limits around internally, but the interface is stable, so feel free to code away!

You find your API Key and the link to the documentation on the Settings page.

23 Link Backends = Even More Links

We’ve found and implemented two new link backends, bringing the number of link backends that Superheros get links from to a total of 23! Together with the Link Boost, this should be a welcome addition for all Superhero users.

Want to get links from 23 link sources, too? Upgrade to the Superhero account!

Multi-Select Convenience

Work more efficiently, intuitively.

Did you ever start a number of reports into the wrong project? Was it annoying to move each of them to the correct project separately? The new multi-select feature we’re bringing to the Report Overview allows you to move and delete as many reports as you want at once. This unobtrusive feature will make working with the Report Overview so much more convenient, you will wonder how you could do without it!

Multi-Select convenience in the Report Overview

This doesn’t just work in the Report Overview – it’s also available in Reports, which makes it easy to add your links the Favorites, add them to one of the Blacklists or start a Juice Tool Report to get additional SEO metrics for some of the URLs.

Multi-Select also in all Reports

Intergration with Raven SEO

A few months ago, we asked you which link building workflow tools you were using. Since we’re increasingly launching our link prospecting tools publicly as part of the Link Research Tools, having the option to export link prospects into those link building tools was obviously something we’ve been working on hard.

Select the URLs you want to export to the Raven Tools and click the “Export for Raven Tools”-link.

Then download the file, click the “Import” link and upload it. You’re all set!

Please note two things:

1. Raven management confirmed that CSV imports do suck to some point and will give us an API just like other workflow tools have.
2. We will launch integration into additional link managment solution very soon – watch this space or contact us
   to suggest new important tools to integrate into

Analyze Subfolder Backlinks in BLP

Did you ever work on a website that has different sections for different topics and different departments? Doing SEO can be especially tedious for them, because analyzing those areas separately, when there are no subdomains, requires lots of weeding out the data that isn’t relevant to a certain part of the domain.

Subfolder backlinks should help you do your work more efficiently. This innovative approach to link types means that instead of showing all the links to a domain, we only show those that link directly into a certain subfolder.

Not all SEOs will need that, but we know that some of you will love it!

Improved Encoding Support

If you’re not working with the English language only, you will know special characters like German Umlauts or Kyrillic letters have caused problems in the past. We’ve worked hard to change that and are happy to tell you that encoding problems should be a thing of the past in the Link Research Tools.

Compound Keywords in CLA

The Competitive Landscape Analyzer just got a bit cooler. You can classify “Compound Keywords” in addition to Brand keywords, Money keywords and Other keywords.

What is a compound keyword? Well, that’s a mixture typically containing the Money keyword and the Brand keyword. This could be <Brand Name> <Widgets> – just like “Samsung DVD-Player” or
“Interflora Flowers” or a similar combination where a Brand keyword is very well combined with the Money keyword, thus helping the rankings of the latter too.

They seem to have the correct Compound ratio (but suck at Brand/Money). How about you?

And more…

1. The Link Alerts email notification is now optional, too. You can deactivate it on the settings page.
2. In addition to the Project-based domain blacklist, there’s now also a global domain blacklist, where we recommend you put in URLs like wikipedia.org.
3. Superheros can now add the logo of a client to a Project, which will be shown in PDF-files that are exported from the Link Research Tools.

Did you know…

…that we’ve got several web-based link building trainings planned for the coming months? You can find a list at our list of link building trainings. Join them to learn more about link building from the well-known link building guru Christoph C. Cemper, founder of CEMPER.COM and the Link Research Tools from wherever you are, without having to leave the comfort of your office!