Friday, 1 October 2010

Review: Open Site Explorer


The Open Site Explorer is one of the finest Backlink Analysis Tools I've come across to date. Unlike other Back Link analysis tools this tool is based upon data collected a crawler dedicated to finding links and evaluating their authority. Linkscape spends the better part of a month indexing over 90 Million root domains and evaluating 9.2 Trillion links.
You can view and compare 3 URL reports per day using the tool without registering, unlimited if you register, with limited data or pay a subscription fee to view all the data. The free information on its own makes tool extremely useful for promoting a website and I imagine it is well worth subscribing to if you specialize in SEO.

Because this tool is collecting its own data from the Internet instead of using Yahoo like many other Backlink tools on the Internet it is able to provide unique information about the links to any site it has come across. Netcraft report that they have detected over 213.4 Million websites which would mean that Linkscape only crawls 42% of the websites at the moment, but then that is 213,399,999 more websites than your run of the mill backlink tool!

You can query the Linkscape database using the Open Site Explorer by going to

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