Best Link Tool Ever

Aug 10

The new release of our Link Research Tools now makes it the best link tool ever! With the new slick design, new features like Theme and SiteType category per link and the new MLT tool you will love it just like we do!

User Friendly Re-Design

The LRT now comes with a new intuitive yet elegant design

We listened to your feedback, read every e-mail, collected every comment we got on conferences and re-created the Link Research Tools from scratch. We re-engineered our tools, trying to make it a lot easier for you to use. Also we wanted to find out which features you didn’t know existed – and there were a lot. The result is a completely new design and a greatly improved user experience. You’ll see that everything from creating reports to using them is now easier and faster. But still, if you have any difficulties finding your features: please contact us using the feedback form. We will do everything to make your transition as seemless and pleasant as possible!

Why not Take A Tour through our new version to get a first impression?

Improved reports

New Feature: Site Type

We’re proud to say that the heart of our LRT – the reports page – has undergone quite impressive changes. We use the available space more efficiently for charts. Filtering the details table has been improved greatly. The report page now consumes much less of your browser’s resources and loads data much, much quicker because of that. Seriously: The speed of filtering and sorting has improved at least tenfold, especially on smaller machines like notebooks.

We provide you with even more values to analyze and improve the results of your reports. You can learn about the site type of each link. See what kind of pages link back to your company’s web site: wikis, forums, blogs, social media, etc. You can now chart those down in the link profiles and quickly compare how many links from blogs, directories etc you have in comparison to competitors.

Getting topic relevant links is a basic link building rule
and we help you find those even faster now!

Our tools will check for the theme of a site – providing you with information on the content of each analyzed URL that links to you or your competitor. That makes it even easier now to spot those gems in the heap of links!

New Values: Site Type and Theme

Site Theme Value

So we added two extremely hot new values: SiteType and Theme.

SiteType, as the name suggests, identifies the type of website (e.g. Wiki, Forum, Blog, Social Network, etc.).

Theme identifies the topic of a website (Personal/Blogs, Computers/Internet, Newsgroups/Forums). As the screenshots above and to the left show, we of course also added a link profile for both values.

Missing Links Tool

Don’t lag behind!

MLT details table

Our new Missing Links Tool helps you with an important issue of SEO: links that your competitors have and you don’t. We figured the best way to face this problem is a rather straight forward one, namely to compare and analyze! The MLT provides you with all the important information on an URL’s backlinks and a detailed listing telling you where you’re missing out! Since those pages already link to others within your field of interest, there’s a good chance you will get one as well.

Extended SSPT with Strongest Subfolders

Strongest Subfolders

The SSPT now features a “Strongest Subfolders” feature that groups the pages by subfolder, adds their respective strength and sorts those subfolders – like the normal URLs table you know already.

So it will tell you even more about where you should try to get links – and where you shouldn’t. This feature is especially helpful if you are trying to decide which section of a larger site will be your target and you cannot define the exact page where you’ll get that link.

Fancy Domains in CBLT and COLT

In CBLT and COLT reports we now include “fancy domains”. This means that for a few domains like WordPress, Blogspot, etc. we won’t calculate the number of common links based on the topdomain (“wordpress.com”) but the respective subdomains (e.g. “bob.subdomain.com”). This makes a lot of sense, as every subdomain on these domains represents a separate website, even though it has the same top domain.

Please note that we are currently converting your old reports to the new LRT. It might take a few hours until everything has been converted.