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10 Free Link Building Tools to Check Link Popularity and Ranks

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 09:26 AM PDT

Quality inbound links are an essential element of web site marketing and search engine optimization programs to increase traffic and online sales. The greater the number of relevant and authoritative links to a web page, the greater the potential for higher search engine rankings and qualified traffic.The basic factor that helps the website to hold top 5 positions by the search engine ranking is inbound links. Text with important keywords and phrases effect 73% of search engine ratings. External link popularity also plays an important role in placing the website to top 10 ratings by the search engine. So, Here in this post we are compiling a great list of free tools to build back links.

1. SoloSEO Link Search Tool

Solo Seo Link building tool is actually the collection of SEO management and implementation tool to help the user to build and track inbound links to their website. Solo Seo link building tool includes Link Manager and Link Build it. Link manager tool help the user to access links easily and it also help the user to track links. Link Built it shows the users about back link count, page ranks, DMOz listing and also gives the facility to add URLS of those pages that are viewed by Link Manager.

2. Link Appeal Tool

The Link Appeal tool will calculate the desirability rating of having a link on the url you specify. This calculation includes factors such as PageRank, number of outbound links and the overall percentage of links to html. It is intended as a guideline for evaluating whether you should ask for a link on a certain page or not.

3. Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools provides you with detailed reports about your pages' visibility on Google. To get started, simply add and verify your site and you'll start to see information right away.

4. Backlink Buildez

Building Quality backlinks is one of the most important factors in Search Engine Optimization. It is not enough just to have a lot of backlinks, it is the Quality of backlinks along with the Quantity that help you rank better in Search Engines. This tools searches for websites of the theme you specify that contain keyphrases like "Add link", "Add site", "Add URL", "Add URL", "Submit URL", "Add Article" etc. Most of the results could be quality potential backlinks.

5. Alexa Backlink Checker

You can see total domains linking to a website and which domains they are.

6. Link Harvester

Since Link Harvester uses the Yahoo! API it is limited to 5,000 daily uses per IP address. Software that is web based makes all of it's queries from one IP. Since Link Harvester is web based it has no system requirements. Hosts that run Link Harvester must support DOM XML.

7. Link Popularity Check

This tool will show you how many other sites are linking to you. Most search engines use this data to calculate how popular your website is. The more links to you, the better your search engine rankings will be. You can even provide some competitors' URLs to compare your site to theirs.

8. Advanced Link Manager

The Advanced Link Manager is a great tool to find relevant link opportunities. In just a few mouse clicks I can find out who links to top-ranking websites, but not yet to our client's. It is so straightforward and easy to use.

9. Backlink Summary

A quick summary similar to the results delivered by Analyze Backlinks & Backlink Watch.

10. OptiLink Competition Link Analyzer

There are literally hundreds of link popularity tools available to web site owners and marketing specialists. Our staff searches for link popularity tools that will enhance your visibility. The goal of this section is to differentiate tools and rate them according to effectiveness. A backlink checker that analyses competition for a particular search term.

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